[TowerTalk] Homebrew Towers & Liability

[Randy Wing]

For MOST people I agree - use a product not a concoction.  However,
remember the Spruce Goose?  You can make awesome things with wood.  

I even made a 36' pole out of 2x2x12 wood that lasted 4 years - guyed with
$5.00 of closeline.

But I haven't really made an argument - just adding my 2 cents....  :)

Randy
N0LD



On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Wes & Linda wrote:

> At 09:05 PM 12/13/00 EST, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> >    What're you...nuts? Towers on the market have been designed by proper 
> >engineers and built by journeymen workers. You think you can do that? HA! 
> >
> >    A 'wooden' tower? Sheesh.
> >
> >Cheers,   Steve    K7LXC
> >Tower Tech  
> 
> Let me see.... I seem to recall someone posting photos of the crappy welds
> on freshly built Rohn tower sections that were being returned to Rohn for
> replacement.
> 
> Were these the ones "built by journeymen workers" that you are referring to?
> 
> Let me run this by you.  I number among my close friends (all of us retired
> from the same aerospace firm) a mechanical engineer with a Ph.D. from
> Stanford who now teaches at the U of AZ and a metallurgist with a master's
> degree. (Just to show you that the doctor isn't some fuzzy-headed theorist,
> he also built his own house, drilled his own well and enters
> tractor-pulling contests with his antique crawler that he personally
> rebuilt.) My next-door neighbor once worked at the same firm as a certified
> welder.   He now works for a glass-fiber drawing company welding such
> things platinum dies, etc.  It doesn't hurt that he also owns a backhoe <g>.
> 
> If I determined a set of requirements and asked these folks to design and
> construct a tower and footing for me is it your position that it's going to
> be unsafe or fail?
> 
> As to wooden construction, just think about all of the 200+-year-old
> timber-framed buildings, aircraft and blimp hangers, railroad bridges,
> water towers and so forth that are still standing and operating.
> 
> 
> Sheesh indeed.
> 
> 
> Wes Stewart  N7WS
> 
> 
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