[TowerTalk] Broken Rohn 25G Base Section

[Melvin Brafford]

On May 21 a storm took down my 100' Rohn 25G. All the "big grip" connections, EHS cable, etc held up ok. When an 80' tall tree fell on the SE guy wires, the NW guy anchor pulled up out of the ground, and the tower folded like a hair-pin at the 30' level, and fell toward the direction of the tree(SE). The force exerted on the tower as the tree hit it also, broke one of the tower legs at just above the 2' level. The 25G was pushed and pulled at the same time. I'm left with around 2 feet of tower sticking out of the concrete base. The swaged ends are gone, and all I have left is the 3 legs which appear to be ok, and the 2 remaining cross and Z brace sets seem ok. I wonder if anyone would trust using the remaining base section stub, and if so how would you attach the next section above it? Thanks, and direct dialogue will be fine, so as not to clutter up the reflector.

73, Mick  W4YV