In a message dated 8/5/2007 4:23:44 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
towertalk-request@contesting.com writes:
> Hello All, I just purchased a house with a nice 25' tower. The building
inspector told me that the 2 straps that hold the tower to my chimney has to
go because the chimney is moving when there is a lot of wind. It is on
picture # 7 and # 8 on the link bellow. My question is: are the two bracket
on picture #2, # 4 and # 5 good enough to hold this tower alone? If you
look at picture # 1, you will see how it is mounted to the ground. Also, can
you please tell me what kind of antenna's CB or HAM, do I have on that tower
( I know one is a TV Yagi ) and what kind of tower is that? Here are the
pictures: http://profile.imageshack.us/user/intravino/
I couldn't tell of there was any concrete for the base.
Yes, don't use the chimney. It doesn't have any strength to speak of
- it's basically just a heavy pile of organized bricks.
Your housebrackets are pretty small without a lot of structural
rigidity. Although your tower is lightly loaded, it is under-engineered. I
personally wouldn't climb it as is. If this tower has been up for awhile, I'd
say
you've been lucky.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
TOWER TECH -
Professional tower services for hams
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