>FWIW, I demonstrated the hard way that the factory supplied Rohn 25G class
5
>hardware is very adequate, and stronger than the tower legs. I lost a guy
> wire on a 25G tower and had it fall over.
And I used the same experiment to demonstrate that SS bolts shear. I still
have the bolts.
The failure point, BTW, was a drop forged eyebolt bolted into a concrete
parapet horizontally, with the guy pulling upward on it (i.e. laterally)
(max angle on the Rohn drawings). When the tower went down, a few of the SS
bolts sheared. Note that it was not the SS bolts in the tower joints
shearing that made the tower fall.
Mark, N5OT
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