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Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Collapse in South Dakota

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Collapse in South Dakota
From: <sawyered@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:02:22 -0500
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I believe that the reason it laid down full length is because it had a pier
pin and the pin sheared when a guy let go.  If the base had been cemented in
(all 3 legs) like the majority of ham towers, it would not have failed like
that.  I would have crumpled in, twisted.

 

Ed  N1UR

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