I'm interested in putting up a freestanding aluminum tower in my small back yard. Our lot is a narrow one; the main house is toward the front of the lot, and there is a detached two-story garage apar
That tower is comprised of 4 10ft sections. It will be very easy for an experienced tower guy to lift each section up, maybe even with a gin pole. You may also want to check with your town/city for w
My advice only Check your city and/or ordinances; I understand some will not let you have a tower that if it fell could fall into your neighbor's yard. Don't know what that may mean in your case, but
I have put up two Universal towers by stacking the sections vertically. I had to modify my Rohn gin pole to fit the larger diameter leg, but other than that it was easier than trying to walk it up as
IF you city zoning permits antennas/towers at all, it will almost definitely have a setback distance from your property line, that will restrict where you can locate the tower base, and your antenna
It depends on what state. We install commercial cell towers. In Florida, you don't own the "air". It can stick over. BUT (always a but) some localities you have to follow the fall zone rules. IF you
Not hard at all. A gin pole, a ground crew, a nice day, it is sort of fun and very fulfilling to see a tower go up step by step, with Aluma tower, it is really quite easy, nothing like wrestling with
Author: "John E. Cleeve" <g3jvc@jcleeve.idps.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:10:21 +0100
I have been following the contributions on this topic with interest. a 45 degree angle for the supporting guys for a mast/tower, could the guying method used to provide support for a ship or yacht ma
Well technically no city can prohibit all antennas. You know, PRB-1 and all of that. But the tower height with limited setback may be just the excuse they need to deny a permit. As for owning both pr
I chair P&Z in our city, and I authored our Telecommunications ordinance that pertain to towers. As it was simply common sense, we implemented a 200' limit with a 1:1 aspect ratio on larger lots. On
I was indeed wondering if temporary guying was necessary when climbing to the top, esp. since the top section is down to 14". _______________________________________________ _________________________
Well, of course,... you might not own both properties forever. I suspect you could record some sort of easement granting airspace/fall radius access to the neighbor. Or, merge the two properties into
Sure.. the tradeoff is that the "base width" of the tower (from stay to stay) will be wider than for just the mast. Similar to how a freestanding tower works. The loads in the stays and the tower its
That's interesting. In my neighborhood, there were numerous examples of people who owned 2 to 5 adjacent land parcels and built a big house that spanned across all of them. Eventually, some of the ow
Be careful with the word "definitely". Here the set back rules apply only to the structure. When I started to explain what I wanted to put on top of the tower they told me they weren't interested. Th
But they can add engineering requirements that will prevent most from proceeding. Here, they did put an 80' limit on towers, but above that you only need a properly engineered and installed tower. I
To answer some of the postings and to close this thread: The "definitely" in my post was the setback to the tower base, IF there is an antenna ordinance in the first place. And, no argument that your
There are several things that we cannot see on this end that must be done before any construction begins. The first would be a good soil analysis, due to the fact that you physically need to know wha
JB made some good points in his post, but it brings up a question for me. This brings up a question: If it is 1.5 times the height for clearance, there are a number of commercial towers and cell towe
one half times the height away from any power line.< ...and... clearance, there are a number of commercial towers and cell towers locally that appear if they went over they'd hit the power lines. Th