"From what I understand, UST rates the 72 foot crank up towers at 200 lbs antenna(s), rotor and mast, bearing etc weight with 22 lbs of cable weight, 222 lbs max vertical dead weight." My UST 72 was
Barry, I'm trying to understand what you said about the base moving. What I think I understand, the concrete base of your tower moved about 2" horizontally and broke up the pavers at ground level? If
Since I knew it was overloaded, I never intended to leave it up when storms were headed this way, and only got caught on a few contest weekends when I was not paying attention to weather. Thanks for
There was no horizontal movement of the base. The sides of the base to the south and west, from which the wind normally arrives, had tilted the tower enough to rotate the base that inch or two that b