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Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Collapse in South Dakota

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Collapse in South Dakota
From: Steve Dyer W1SRD via TowerTalk <[email protected]>
Reply-to: Steve Dyer W1SRD <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:22:05 -0800
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I recall reading somewhere that most guyed towers fall (crumple) within a circle ~30% of their height. Obviously did not happen in SD for the reasons cited.
Steve
W1SRD

On 1/20/2023 10:02 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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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