[TowerTalk] polyrod

[Tom Rauch]

> If you look at Kurt's tower study (you need to read
> down toward the end to see the phylistran case) you
> can see that the additional stretchiness of composite
> guys can bite you if the base of the guyed tower is
> over-constrained (e.g. 3 legged rigid mounting). With
> a pier pin, it doesn't matters as the tower just leans a
> little more in the wind when the composite guys are
> used.

With all the insulators and LONG guy lines on my towers the
guy sag is so deep the towers move a heck of a lot more than
towers I've had with Phylistran guys. You can shake 'em and
clearly feel the difference.

73 Tom