[TowerTalk] Towers falling

[Fred Hopengarten]

From:
Fred Hopengarten  K1VR               781/259-0088
Six Willarch Road
Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
permanent e-mail address:  fhopengarten@mba1972.hbs.edu

On Sat, 18 Apr 1998 08:29:42 -0400 (EDT) "Charles H. Harpole"
<harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> writes:
> Why go to the overkill of having a second 
>anchor when a simple piece of wire will "back up" the anchor bolt cited 
>below?

K1VR:  A safety wire is a good and useful thing. But if you concede the
possibility of an anchor failure, it does not solve the problem.  K1OX
once put a screw in anchor in land that later became "soupy" and it
pulled out.

None of the above discussion, however, deals with the fact that if you
have two anchors in each direction, it is virtually impossible for a
tower to fall its full length, as it must buckle on the way down.

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