[TowerTalk] Elevated guys to a extreme

[Jim Lux]

At 07:49 PM 12/29/2005, Terry Gerdes wrote:
>This installation demonstrates using a existing tower as one of the guy
>anchors and guying part way up the existing tower.   Not a good idea.

Could be an ok idea, though.. All a matter of design and 
analysis.  Certainly not "simple" or "cookbook", and as N5OT points out, a 
pain to adjust.  However, elevated guys might solve a problem.

The idea of guying one tower to another comes up pretty commonly in rigging 
across a stage, where you need a clear view between the uprights. We built 
a fairly large system with 50+ ft towers 5x5ft in cross section (they were 
actually crane mast segments)  about 60 ft apart that had 4 guys total (two 
on each tower) and 2 cross guys from top to top.  It had to support a 50x40 
ft truss assembly holding a helicopter rotor and a bigblock Chevy motor 
that flew up on chain motors.  I don't know that I'd want to do it again, 
but can say that the rig withstood 60 mi/hr winds without failure.
http://www.reelefx.com/Tornado/40footVolvo.htm


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