You know.. we see this advice all the time: "It's time for your annual spring tower check".. but I wonder. There's an awful lot of power/telephone poles out there that I doubt get checked on an annua
Maybe so and maybe not. Ice storms have take down perfectly good tower systems. So have high winds that were outside the norm for an area. I see it as a good idea but it gives no guarantee. And...how
When I do my checks on some 300 plus towers every year, which I originally installed I check them with a torque wrench and it is and will be a wonder to me if the nuts and bolts tighten even a little
As far as power line stuff, lots of transmission lines get checked yearly. Mostly by helicopter but some on the ground. The helicopter inspections using visual, lidar, and infra red are getting very
Maybe so and maybe not. Ice storms have take down perfectly good tower systems. So have high winds that were outside the norm for an area. winter has come and gone. I'd do it at least twice a year, b
in the process of putting up a 104 foot Delhi, gonna guy it in four places, first starting at the 64 foot mark and then roughly every fifteen feet or there a bouts - placing two 10 element 2 metre tw
73 tom/va3tvk 4th and 5th sections. [38' level] Those sections are 8' long, but you lose several inch's in overlap. Ii had one up back in the1970's, guyed, and 10 x sections + prop pitch/mast, stacke