[TowerTalk] Big crank-up?

[Leigh Sedgwick]

Any wind strong enough to damage my tower in a retracted position will level 
my house first!  I'd go strap myself to the tower :-)

73 de Mike
K7PI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd Coulter" <coulter at bellsouth.net>
To: <K7LXC at aol.com>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Big crank-up?


> Steve,
>
> I was allowed to have the tower rated in the retracted or nested position. 
> This was the key to meeting the requirements as set by the Florida 
> Building Code with a crank-up tower.
>
> My point was that no other tower manufacture was willing to do what Karl 
> did even with their tower in the retracted position. I guess that I could 
> have had an enginneer here locally do the calculations and prints for the 
> other towers if I could have obtained the needed information about the 
> other towers and provided that information to him/her, but I think that 
> would have proved to be quite costly. Karl provided this service at no 
> cost.
>
> I could not have done it any other way without significantly more hassle 
> as guyed and windmill towers are not allowed here.
> 
> Regards,
>                                                                      Todd
>                                                                     N4JRZ
>
>
>
> -------------- Original message from K7LXC at aol.com: -------------- 
>
>
>>
>> In a message dated 8/3/2008 6:56:16 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>> towertalk-request at contesting.com writes:
>>
>> > Karl went out of his way when other tower manufacturers (US Tower
>> included) would not help with the requirements that I had to meet here
>> in Broward county Florida which is a 140 mph, 3 second area. He gave me
>> all of the information that I needed to provide to a local and Florida
>> certified P.E.
>>
>> Please provide more information on a crank-up tower that will meet the
>> 140 MPH windspeed spec. Tnx.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve K7LXC
>> TOWER TECH
>>
>>
>>
>>
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