[TowerTalk] [Fwd: Towers Brought Down!]

[Donald Chester]

I use only three guy anchors for my tower, which has four sets of guys.  It 
would  seem to me higgly unlikely that a guy anchor would fail, but I have 
seen it happen.

That's how I acquired my base insulator.  A broadcast station had a guy 
anchor failure, but they had a total of six anchors.  One of the anchors for 
the top sets of guys failed, so the tower broke in half, leaving the bottom 
half standing.  They decided that the remains of the tower were not worth 
repairing, and opted to  replace the whole tower.  Since they didn't want to 
put a brand new tower on a 40 years old base insulator, they replaced the 
base insulator too, and I acquired the old one for use with my 1/4 WL 160m 
vertical.

That broadcast tower was only about 250' tall.

I saw the old anchor pier, and noted that the anchor broke off cleanly just 
about an inch or two out of the concrete.  No idea why it failed, or if it 
was
galvanised.

Don k4kyv

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