But shouldn't the engineer's design of the foundation take that into
account?
Alan NV8A
On 08/29/06 06:51 am Pete Smith wrote:
> It seems to me that this discussion is missing one important distinction -
> guyed tower vs self-supporting. The latter puts much more strain on the base
> and any embedded foundation pieces, while the load from a guyed tower is
> almost all vertical compression. One former denizen of this reflector had
> several fairly tall Rohn 25 towers simply footed in gravel. Our old ham club
> had a short one (20')mounted on top of a building in DC with the base simply
> guyed across the roof to several vent pipes , to keep it from popping out
> (yes, we WERE nuts), considering the liability implications, but this was the
> 70's)
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