[Towertalk] screw in anchors

[Pete Smith]

At 06:16 PM 9/12/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Well, in theory at least, it would take 1900 pounds to LIFT it, but how much
>to drag it horizontally across the ground?  Much less, I suspect . . .

Probably true, but the force is at ~45 degrees to the horizontal, you'd 
have to drag it up out of a 3-foot hole first, and in any case it weighs a 
LOT more than a screw anchor in similar circumstances.


73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower