WOW I am a belt and suspenders type Ken, and that is a catastrophic incident .
No pre implantation of standard safety factors could have saved that
installation.
GL on you re build
Wayne W3EA
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On May 25, 2014, at 3:55 PM, "Ken Beals" <k6mr@outlook.com> wrote:
> The aforementioned fire victim was me. The 20 foot steel ends on the guys
> were of little help when the flames were 100 feet high. The tower was 80
> feet, and everything on the tower that wasn’t steel was vaporized. The ground
> temperature around the tower was high enough to melt most of the spare
> aluminum stacked in the area.
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> A 50 foot tower next to the house was saved, but the plastic shroud on the
> cell repeater antenna at the top was melted.
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> Let’s just say this necessitated a complete station rebuild.
>
>
> Ken K6MR
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> From: Wayne Kline
> Sent: Sunday, 25 May, 2014 14:05
> To: Chuck Smallhouse
> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
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> I am under the impression ,that Phillistran installation guid recommends
> appropriate steel/EHS
> Guy wire at a safe tamper proof and ground fire height.
> I have installed a number of both Phillistran and PollyRod towers, guy /
> ground safety hight
> Plugged into the total guy equation .
>
> Wayne. W3EA
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On May 24, 2014, at 11:56 PM, "Chuck Smallhouse" <w7cs@theriver.com> wrote:
>
>> A story for those of you using Phillistran cable for guying a tower.
>>
>> I was talking to a ham that lives in far N. CA, in area that is subject to
>> wildfires. A couple of years ago the area had a bad wildfire that moved in
>> the direction of his QTH, in a somewhat rural area. Even though the area
>> around his home was quite well cleared, they couldn't save his workshop
>> where most of his test equipment and ham equipment was located.
>>
>> When he returned after a mandatory evacuation and surveyed the damage , he
>> found that not only was his ham shack destroyed, but also his guyed tower
>> had fallen over. It turned out that he had guyed it using Phillistrand and
>> that the fire had burned the guys through and which resulted in the
>> catastrophic demise of his tower and beams.
>>
>> I guess that the lesson to be learned is, to at least have the bottom
>> sections of your guys be of steel cable and not any type of flammable
>> material, especially if you live in a wildfire prone area.
>>
>> Chuck, W7CS, with no Phillistrand guys .
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