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Re: [TowerTalk] Idea for tower base. Comments please!

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Idea for tower base. Comments please!
From: Richard Karlquist <richard@karlquist.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:43:30 -0800
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I just wonder if, instead of digging big or small holes in the ground and filling them with concrete, it would be possible to drill down a number of
screw anchors (minimum 4) and make a base of e few (minimum 2) I-beams
holding on to the anchors.Then attach the tower to this I-beam construction.

It would be much easier to dispense with the I-beams and just connect
the screw anchors to the bottom section of the tower with short guy
wires.  This could be considered to be a quasi-self supporting tower.
The idea being, you may not have room for conventional guys, but you
might have room to go out 10 feet or so.

Rick N6RK
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