[TowerTalk] Tensioning guys

[n4kg@juno.com]

The utility companies have nice attachments for adding
guys to their single loop anchors.  Another approach would
be to clamp a plate or angle iron with an appropriate size hole
to the rod.  Or, make a right angle attachment using boom to
element style construction with 4 U bolts and a flat plate.

A technique I use is to make a strap with small loops in each
end, looped through the anchor eye, using 1/8 inch 7 strand
galvanized steel wire (the old 6/18 guy wire).  A nylon harness
could also be used.

de  Tom  N4KG

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:12:26 -0500 "J. Kincade" <w5kp@swbell.net> writes:
> I understand the methodology of the Klein grips and comealongs, I 
> think, but
> how, exactly, do you attach the lower end of the comealong to the 
> guy rod
> shaft without interfering with the equalizer plates, etc.? I'll have 
> about
> 3' of 5/8" galvanized rod sticking out of the ground at about a 41 
> degree
> angle... Maybe I'm making this harder than it is, just because I 
> haven't
> done it yet, but the vision isn't perfectly clear yet.
> 
> And Stan, I believe you.
> 
> 73, Jerry W5KP
> 
> 
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