If you are looking for a good explaination of tower installation and analysis check out the work done by Kurt Andress, K7NV. His work can be found at http://yagistress.freeyellow.com/towers1.html He
Steve, would you kindly go into a little more detail on this plumbing procedure. Thanks. 73, Carl VE9OV List Sponsor: Are you thinking about installing a tower this summer? Call us for information on
Only problem I have had is side mounted thrust on a single pin mount. It tends to twist the tower in gusts. I had to put in star mount guys to eliminate, undesirable torque. Agreed. It's cheaper, and
Sometimes you get lucky and find a bent Rohn section that has 4 or 5 good feet at the proper end. Some cutting and you have a relatively cheap buriable base section. W0ETC us to 96-feet for less than
Please would you explain what a pier pin is ???? I'm interested to know... Tim www.qsl.net/ei8ic/ List Sponsor: Are you thinking about installing a tower this summer? Call us for information on our f
To all; It seems this came up a year or so ago. I any event I dug out my typical tower simple FEA Model and revisited the results. The model assumes a 70 foot guyed tower. It is guyed at 35' and 70'
I have been following this thread and see only tangential references to the type of pier pin installations I've seen. First, they use a flat bottom plate on the concrete. I doubt that these rotate at
Brian: Actually the rebar cage in either is the same. It should be separate from the tower section that is embedded in the concrete. I would not recommend to anyone that they use the embedded tower s