[TowerTalk] Newbie with tower

[Mark Robinson]

>
> In a message dated 8/5/2007 4:23:44 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> towertalk-request at contesting.com writes:
>
>>  Hello All, I just purchased a house with a nice 25'  tower.  The 
>> building
> inspector told me that the 2 straps that hold the  tower to my chimney has 
> to
> go because the chimney is moving when there is a  lot of wind. It is on
> picture # 7 and # 8 on the link bellow. My question  is: are the two 
> bracket
> on picture #2, # 4 and # 5 good enough to hold this  tower alone?  If you
> look at picture # 1, you will see how it is  mounted to the ground. Also, 
> can
> you please tell me what kind of antenna's  CB or HAM, do I have on that 
> tower
> ( I know one is a TV Yagi ) and what  kind of tower is that?  Here are the
> pictures:  http://profile.imageshack.us/user/intravino/
>
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>         I couldn't tell of  there was any concrete for the base.
>
>        Yes, don't use the chimney.  It doesn't have any strength to speak 
> of
> - it's basically just a heavy pile of  organized bricks.
>
>        Your housebrackets are  pretty small without a lot of structural
> rigidity. Although your tower is  lightly loaded, it is under-engineered. 
> I
> personally wouldn't climb it as is. If  this tower has been up for awhile, 
> I'd say
> you've been lucky.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve     K7LXC
> TOWER TECH -
> Professional tower services for hams
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A good post Steve,

Yes a chimney like that can barely hold itself up I would imagine.


What would you advise - stringing up some temporary guys before trying to 
diassasemble the tower and replacing it with a self supporting tower set in 
a decent sized base?


Mark N1UK G3ZZM