The product you're looking for is likely on this page: http://www.hubbellpowersystems.com/anchoring/no-wrench/ Perhaps a call to Hubbell's customer support line would get you info on a local distribu
Patrick's comments on a vector sum of forces is spot on. The real world is never as simple as some of the drawings in catalogs. My terrain is uneven. Plus for a variety of reasons I was not able to l
Concerning lightning damage to a concrete foundation .... ran across the example in the link below. In this case a concrete guy anchor was damaged. But looking at the pictures, this might have been c
Just a quick note to thank all the TT members for the help and advice over the last two years. My tower and beam are now up, and all the better for the info I received directly or by browsing the arc
When I put up my tower last year, the one and only thing our county electrical inspector wanted to see was a bond between the tower and the detached garage sub-panel's ground rod, which is a few feet
An article on conductive concrete....steel shavings and carbon added to the mix. A long URL so you may have to cut and paste. N3AE http://www.rdmag.com/news/2016/01/conductive-concrete-could-keep-roa
Some data for what it's worth... Location: Calvert County, Maryland, 30 miles SE of Washington, DC When: June 2014 5x5x7.5 ft hole by backhoe service (local septic installer).........................
It's with some trepidation that I respond to this thread, but there''s one other climbing technique I have not seen mentioned in this forum. For modest height towers, say up to 75 feet, why not climb
Bob, OK up to a point. In mountaineering, the belayer is always focused 100% on the climber, both visually when possible and by tactile feel through the tension on the rope. No distractions allowed l
Since a discussion has been started on HFTA, I'll throw in a few observations. The terrain around my QTH is complex, with many steep gullies and rapidly changing elevations. We're not talking cliffs
Gary, When I have more than 149 range and elevation pairs in a .pro file, my V1.04 HFTA reports that it is truncating to 149 points but in fact blows up with an error message when I try to run the ta
Dave, According to Dean, HFTA has a terrain pre-smoothing algorithm internally which is applied to the raw elevation profile provided by the user. Unfortunately, HFTA does not give you the opportunit
Try Bairstow Lifting Products. http://www.bairstow.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=wire+rope+sheaves&Submit=Search I got some sheaves from them for my old EZ-Way tower. They even do custom, but don't kn
Erico's Cadwelds have the coarse grain thermite and the fine grain starter powder in the same little container, with the starter powder in the bottom so it ends up on top when you pour it in. Problem
Here's what I did. I found a local company that would supply, cut and bend the rebar per the cage design specs. They had the professional machinery to do this properly and accurately. That's the hard
Just some observations and thoughts... nothing too serious here. Most zoning ordinances stipulate a setback requirement for a tower. Around here, the setback from the nearest property line must be eq
Here's one documented case of lightning damage to concrete. I had posted it before but here's a repeat. https://www.copper.org/applications/electrical/pq/casestudy/a6137/a6137.html In this case a con
Interesting discussion. My tower is10 ft from my detached garage which is about 100 ft from the house. The garage has an underground power feeder from the house service panel which is about 230 ft aw
"In your case, one could put a 1:1 transformer at the remote building, primary side fed from the house, secondary side feeding your subpanel, where neutral and ground would be connected(because it's
I believe the article certainly is accurate with respect to trends. The NEC tree models track well with the infinite lossy cylinder closed form solution, which is a good double check. But the real wo