[TowerTalk] Trees as anchors and guy dynamics

[Tom Osborne]

Bill Putney wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience guying to trees? How do I anchor >to the trees without compromising the survival of the trees? Is >it a bad idea to guy to trees?

Hi Bill

Right now 1 of the guys on my crank-up tower is hooked to the
base of a big fir tree.  One thing you have to be real careful
about is to make sure the eyebolt, or whatever you use to hook to
the tree, doesn't come too close to the tree.  I had a large
screw eye embedded into the tree and after a while, the bark
completely covered the bolt and the guy so that I had to use an
ax to chop the bark away to check the guy.  Also, I have an 160
meter inv. "L: and 80 meter dipole up in a tree.  I had a rope
tied around the base to tie the antenna lines off to and the bark
completely covered the rope.  Trees make good guy anchors if they
are installed right.  73
Tom W7WHY

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