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Re: [TowerTalk] Temporary Guy Anchors

To: Robert Hess <w1rh@yahoo.com>, TowerTalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Temporary Guy Anchors
From: Gary Bonnor <jamieb@optusnet.com.au>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 20:20:10 +1000
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Bob,

Try your local motor vehicle wrecking yard for a quantity of rear 
wheel drive car axles.

Over here in VK I have seen them used for the guys on travelling circus tents.

They are usually 2 to 3 feet long and about an inch and a half 
diameter and made from heat treated alloy steel. Definitely won't 
bend in a hurry !!!

Gary
VK4ZGB

>============= snip ====================
>The location is on 10 acres on top of a mountain.
>Space is not an issue.  Soil is clay with lots of
>rocks.  I am looking for some sort of heavy duty tent
>stakes or equivalent that can be driven into the
>ground to act as guy wire anchors.  Another
>possibility is to fill some livestock feed tubs with
>concrete and makeshift anchors.  Whatever I do, it has
>to be temporary and last about a year.  Guys will be
>either UV resistent rope or light weight wire rope.
>Antenna will be TA-33JR with a HAM IV rotator.
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