[TowerTalk] Guy Breakers

[Pete Smith]

At 06:11 PM 2/4/00 -0500, wa4dou@juno.com wrote:
>
>Hi Pete and Gang,
>  My tower is only 52 ft. high. I elected to use Biggrips and
>insulators(54 and 27 respectively)
>in my guys. Phillistrand ,nor any other non-conductive substitute, for
>real steel guy wire was
>acceptable to me. The cost is minor to my tower. Hurricanes and sunlight
>and long term 
>affects are very real. My guys are broken up into 4-1/2; 12, 13, 14 , 14,
>10(counting the anchor length) 
>on the top guys and a similiar
>pattern in the lower. I believe this is the only real and acceptable
>"long term" solution. 

54 big grips is ~$300 added to the cost of EHS.  Your break-up schedule
should work fine.  Breaking strength of appropriate-size Phillystran is as
good as EHS, though abrasion and fire are potential problems and elongation
is maybe twice that of steel.  The pultruded fiberglass is potentially
stronger and has elongation similar to steel, but can only be bought in
quantity.  As someone said, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch."


73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com 

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