[TowerTalk] Guyed self-supporters (was "Concrete suggestions ")

[Burroughs, Evan]

Hello Gentlemen,

Being in the tower industry I fairly often have to field this question of
reinforcing a self supporting tower with guy wires.

As the engineers explain it me the fundamental issue is that Self supporting
towers are very stiff and guyed towers are very flexible.

They explain to me that for a self supporting tower to move enough for the
load to transmit into the guy wires it will have moved enough to over stress
the members it is constructed of therefore defeating the purpose of adding
guy wires.

My strong suggestion would be that anyone seriously contemplating such an
idea consult with a Registered Professional Engineer experienced with the
design and construction of communications towers.

Regards, 

Evan Burroughs, N7IFJ 
Technical Sales Support/Designer, Valmont Communications

503-316-2048 phone 
503-589-6622 fax 
evanb at valmont.com 



-----Original Message-----
From: K7LXC at aol.com [mailto:K7LXC at aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:44 AM
To: K3BU at aol.com; TOWERTALK at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Guyed self-supporters (was "Concrete
suggestions")


In a message dated 4/16/03 9:01:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, K3BU at aol.com 
writes:

> Very plain and very simple English (in your post), but WRONG!!!

Yuri --

    I must've forgot. What kind of engineering degree do you have again? 

Cheers,
Steve     K7LXC
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Weather Stations", and lot's more.  Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any
questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA.

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