To me, this seems pretty straight-forward. If the failure involves the
failure of a guy anchor which, in turn, holds all of the guys in one axis,
there's nothing to prevent the tower's falling full-length away from the
failed anchor. But if the top guys are intact, the tower cannot fall
outside a radius defined by the length of the uppermost guys, which will
always be less than the tower height. If one upper guy fails, for instance
because of a tree falling on it, then the fall will be constrained by the
lower guys to a similarly-small circle. A pretty good argument for 2
anchors per side, at least!
73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com
"That's WEST Virginia. Thanks and 73"
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