[TowerTalk] Re: Two Die in Tower Accident - Followup

[Pete Smith]

At 02:17 PM 3/21/2000 EST, K7LXC wrote:
>
>In a message dated 03/21/2000 11:09:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
>m2270501@mail.9netave.com writes:
>
>> A group of about eight people, including Deal, had gathered at his house
>>  southwest of Morganton on Friday to build the tower as a birthday present.
>>  It would have been about 73 feet tall, made of metal poles. The poles were
>>  fastened together in a triangular shape about 1 foot wide.
>>  The men sunk the tower base in concrete four or five feet in the ground.
>
>      Hmm. Sounds like a straight-sectioned homebrew tower that should've 
>been guyed. Or better yet, no installed at all.
>

Or maybe Rohn 25, and the writer just tried to describe it physically --
either way, unguyed it wasn't going to handle 2 men at 60 feet,
particularly if they leaned out to grab an antenna coming up.  Not dramatic
enough for the Darwin Awards, but pretty clearly self-inflicted in any case.

73,  Pete N4ZR

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