[TowerTalk] Guyed self-supporters

[ccc@space.mit.edu (Chuck Counselman)]

It's intuitively obvious (as my engineering professors used to say) 
that adding very-slightly _slack_ guys to a self-supporting tower can 
do no harm, and that when the wind blows they will help.

They will help because they will take up shear while placing much 
less vertical load on the tower legs than they would have without the 
guys.  Why?  Because a guy has a much, much greater "lever arm."

-Chuck, W1HIS