[TowerTalk] Plumbing a tower

[James Chaggaris]

 "When it was up and all three guy sets were 
>installed, one guy stood at the base looking up the tower while 3 
>others adjusted the turnbuckles at the guy anchors to get it 
>approximately straight and vertical. "

Would have been easier if the owl was mounted on top first....

73,

Jim N9WW


James E. Chaggaris
President
PowerOne Corp.
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-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Pete Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:35 PM
To: K7LXC at aol.com; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Plumbing a tower

At 04:28 PM 1/22/2008, K7LXC at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/22/2008 6:56:43 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
>towertalk-request at contesting.com writes:
> >  When I put up my 97-foot Rohn 25 tower on a pier pin base (my first 
> > and
>only experience of this kind), the experienced tower builders who were 
>helping me said absolutely nothing about plumbing the tower with any 
>kind of instrument.  When it was up and all three guy sets were 
>installed, one guy stood at the base looking up the tower while 3 
>others adjusted the turnbuckles at the guy anchors to get it 
>approximately straight and vertical.  Once it looked OK, each one 
>tightened his turnbuckle by the same number of turns until the guy 
>tension (measured with a Loos Gauge) was correct.
>
> >  I am wondering how important all this emphasis on precision really is?
>
>     Well, the vertical tolerance spec per the TIA-222 is 3" per 
> hundred feet. Some people are just more particular than others.
>
>Cheers,
>Steve    K7LXC
>TOWER TECH
>
>

Frankly, specs like that strike me as implausible, or - perhaps worse -
intended to give the tower manufacturer an "out" in any failure.  For
example, with Rohn 25, the guy spacing is approximately 30 feet, or 3
sections.  I don't even see how you would go about getting a 3" bow out of
the run between guys.

73, Pete N4ZR


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