In the U.S. there is no national standard. Your regulations depend on your
local government. Home brew towers are not uncommon, but commercially made
towers are more common.
73,
Joe kk0sd
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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Markku Oksanen
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 4:24 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com; Markku Oksanen
Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower regulations for home brew towers in the US?
All
Just because I am curious:
Here at OH-land even large towers can be home brew just like my 160 and 145
foot rotating towers.These have been made by a private small company that
made perhaps 200 towers through the years.Building permit and zoning never
questioned the "engineering" of the towers as the responsibility in the end
rests with the owner.In addition, home owner insurance happily includes
towers and covers damage without question.
How is the situation in the US? Looks like most towers are commercial
(Rohn, couple others) and it seems that a "professional engineer"
(correct??) needs to look at the mechanics of the whole thing in order to
get a permit to put up a tower.
So, how, if at all, is it possible to build your own large towers? Does
anybody do this?
The towers I have are 1.5 feet a side with 2 inch tubes, inverted U (0.7
inch) "cross bars". Only guyed at two levels and full of aluminium, 8000 lb
steel guy wires and ball bearing guy rings. And they have survived some
crazy storm too in the past 15 years.
MarkkuOH2RA/OG2A/WW1C
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