Bracketing a self-supporting tower.

[Ronald D Rossi]

>>>Tony Brock-Fisher said:
> It's time for a reality check here. 40' of Rohn 25G is NOT 
> self supporting! 
> 
> Without proper professional analysis, I would not add a bracket
> to a tower which was truly self-supporting. Adding the bracket
> will completely change the distribution of forces and moments
> on the tower, and could redistribute or increase the forces 
> to a point in the structure not expected to sustain such forces.

Gene,

It sounds like a good bit of force distributed right to the house!
Pay a professional to analyze the situation.

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