[TowerTalk] broken tower section

[W5CPT]

I personally would never use a tower section that had fallen. So my answer is throw it away.  The stresses each tower section experienced make them suspect for failure and I would not sleep well thinking that hidden damage would result in the next failure.  While tower sections are not real cheap they are cheaper than rotors and antennas and what ever the tower hits the next time it falls.  

And that is When not If.

Clint - W5CPT

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joe Barnes 
  To: towertalk at contesting.com 
  Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:31 PM
  Subject: [TowerTalk] broken tower section


  I have a friend that has recently had a rohn 25 tower fall in a severe 
  thunderstorm bending and breaking the section at the bottom. The tower 
  is in concrete. Is there a best way to mate a section back to what is 
  existing? Is is best to put a sleeve around each leg of the tower and 
  through bolt it? Is it best to sleeve and weld it? Is it best to cut the 
  existing section off at the ground and use a rohn base plate? Or are 
  there better suggestions? Thanks you, Joe N4JBK

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