[TowerTalk] Rohn Guy Attachment

[wa4dou@juno.com]

Hi All,
  It seems likely to me that Rohn, just as many other long time
manufacturers, discerns, as time goes on, better and more satisfactory
methods of accomplishing things. Even i, a person with no tower
experience before the past year, recognized the wisdom in using thimbles
at both ends, as well as a guy bracket at an intermediate point. It can
be tempting to try to save money,even in tower building. But, what have
you accomplished if in so doing, you endanger the long term survivability
of the project? I will try to understand the why and wherefor, but i will
not second guess the tower manufacturer. BTW, i think there may be a time
and place where cable clamps are preferrable over "preforms." At the
tower end of the wire, when  broken guys are dictated(insulators) and you
want to minimize the length of the wire attached to the tower, and thus
the loading that these capacity hats represents. 
  73 Roy WA4DOU
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On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 15:33:20 -0700 Stan or Patricia Griffiths
<w7ni@teleport.com> writes:
> 
> There has been some recent discussion here about attaching
> guy wires to Rohn tower by threading them around the leg and
> through the cross brace welds such that the welds are held
> in compression by the guywire.  The position of some people
> here has been that this is a no-no since they do not see it
> done this way in their Rohn Catalog.

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