[TowerTalk] Erections (Tower)

[Pete Smith]

Help, Steve, it's time for one of your orations about "Do what the 
manufacturer says"!

Isn't it true that guying a tower that is designed to be self-supporting 
may actually derate the tower, through applying loads that weren't provided 
for in the original design?

As for power lines 60 feet from a 100-foot steel tower -- whew, not me, man!

73, Pete N4ZR



At 01:50 PM 4/8/2005, K8fu at aol.com wrote:

>GA To All.............................
>
>Am in the process of installing a 100' self supporting steel twr but am
>going to put some guys on it just for my own piece of mind as there are 
>some pwr
>lines abt 60' away.
>I've been able to corral 500' of Polygon cable which will handle the guys @
>90' but not enough for the set @ 40'. So guess I'll hv to go with steel cable
>on  the bottom.
>Antennas will be a 40m rotable dipole and a 4L SteppIR.
>My question is to whether the bottom set of steel guys need to be broken up
>with insulators as they will be 65' below the SteppIR. TIA for your input.
>
>Froggy                 K8FU
>Forget Secretaries.................Take a Frog to  Lunch.........
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