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[TowerTalk] Elevated Guy Post -> Slack Guys

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Elevated Guy Post -> Slack Guys
From: "Terry Gerdes" <terry@ab5k.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:05:42 -0500
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All,

This weekend I took down a 150 foot of R25 tower with elevated guy posts.  All 
three elevated guy post were leaning.  The northern guy post was leaning very 
bad and in addition there were a couple of lower support braces that had been 
added to stiffen it up.   The tower was lightly loaded with a DB224 on top.

I have never seen a tower with so slack of guys.  Considerable effort was done 
just to get the guys tensioned up so the tower could be taken down.  The tower 
was constructed on a pier pin and it obviously moved around a lot in the wind.

Pic of leaning elevated guy post:  http://www.ab5k.net/images/R25ElGuyPost.jpg

Pic of slack guys:   http://www.ab5k.net/images/R25SlackGuys.jpg


73 Terry - AB5K








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