[TowerTalk] Tower Concerns continued

[Michael Tope]

There was an article in QST a while back (its been several years) on house bracketing a tower which 
was coauthored by N1CQ, a structural engineer. As I recall the authors went to a great deal of trouble
anchoring the tower bracket to the structure of the house (4 x 4 posts tied into the truss structure).
As was pointed out in an earlier post, the lateral load on this bracket can be several thousand pounds
in a high wind (this doesn't include the wind blowing against the large surface area of the wall). Unless
you are a qualified structural engineer (I certainly am not), this is a good reason to hire a PE when doing
this kind of installation. 

Lags bolts for a tower, sheesh!

Mike, W4EF................

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <K7LXC@aol.com>
To: <mmurphy@n-focus.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Concerns continued


> In a message dated 1/15/01 11:47:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> mmurphy@n-focus.com writes:
> 
> > I have put up, taken down and serviced a number of towers.  And it simply
> >  amazes me what hams "get away" with.  It may work for a while, maybe
> >  forever. 
> 
>     No kidding! A guy down the street had his 25G housebracket lag bolted in 
> with lag bolts that weren't even long enough reach the studs - ouch!
> 
> Cheers,   Steve    K7LXC
> Tower Tech 
> 
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