On Fri, 10 Apr 1998 20:31:33 -0500 John Hettish <jhettish@United.Net>
writes:
>Hello,
>snip<
>the tower had fallen.
>
> One of our anchors was a four foot long Rohn Earth Screw
>anchor. I had twisted it in to about a depth of about two feet
>mistakenly thinking that that was enough. It should have been sunken
>to about three or four inches from the eye to be really effective. It
took a 60 mph
>wind to bring it down but down it did come.
>snip<
>John Hettish K4WJZ
>
I use screw anchors on all 7 of my towers. For the tall ones, I use
TWO anchors for each leg, the first anchor is spaced 60 ft and takes
the guys at 30 and 60 ft. The outer anchor takes the upper guys.
I like the additional safety factor in redundancy.
de Tom N4KG
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