I'm a little bit skeptical of this issue...
a typical tower 120' tower using 80% radius for guying at 3 points is going
to have a guting radius of 240% for the bottom set of guys... at which point
tension is getting close to the max at the bottom set of guys. One would
expect that the tower would easily handle this tension.
>Pulling out the guys beyond 80 percent creates another problem which has
>been addressed on this reflector before. In effect, the guys actually
start to
>exert forces that start to 'pull apart' the tower from the sides.
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