A tree took out one guy wire on my 50’ Rohn 25 and that was enough to take the
tower down. Base was intact. Tower bent over the roof. Thanks to Katrina.
Bill W2CQ
> On Apr 10, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net> wrote:
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> "more towers are killed by trees than trees by towers"
>
> About one per year in my local club. Trees 3/0 in 3 years. All were a guy
> wire taken out by a tree fall.
>
> That's the downside of dense free wire antenna supports to 100' here in WWA.
>
> Grant KZ1W
> Redmond, WA
>
> On 4/10/2018 8:39 AM, k7lxc--- via TowerTalk wrote:
>>> Something I have always wanted to ask. Have you ever seen a tower come
>>> down due to a failed base?
>> The only failures I've seen were due to something else. With guyed
>> towers, it was mainly due to some sort of guy failure. For self-supporters
>> the tower bent 2/3 or so up the tower. Never seen a base failure.
>> Cheers,
>> Steve K7LXC
>> TOWER TECH
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