> I have a 50 foot Universal Aluminum tower which I would like to extend
to 80-100 feet and guy it to offset the fact the base sections would not
be large enough for Universal's design drawings at that height. Anyone
have any experience good or bad in trying to do something like this?
As others have commented, a self-supporting tower isn't designed to be
guyed. That being said, I'm not crazy about extending the height of the
tower. The capacity will shrink significantly if you do that and you didn't
mention what you're going to put on it or what your windspeed conditions
are.
As far as guying it, any additional weight on the tower (e.g. weight
of the guys, tension) will also reduce the tower capacity as the limiting
factor is the leg strength so by the time you put the guys on, you might run
out of capacity.
I don't recommend doing this.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
TOWER TECH -
Professional tower services for amateur and commercial
Cell: 206-890-4188
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