[TowerTalk] Amount of concrete in ground for Rohn 45G

[David Gilbert]

You won't find any documentation of that because it doesn't make any 
sense.  Think about it ... wind drag (total surface area) and leverage 
(height of tower) are considerably more critical than the weight of 
what's up in the air (unless your tower is too weak to hold it up, your 
tower flexes a lot, or your tower wasn't installed vertically).

73,
Dave   AB7E



Cal Zethmayr wrote:
> I've been told that you need three times the weight of concrete in the ground for the tower base than the total weight of the tower, guy wires, beams and rotors?
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> But I haven't found any documentation of that searching a bunch of sites.
>
> I hope that bit of info will be in my copy of Up The Tower when it gets here...
>
> In the meantime...  any comments anyone?
>
> Cal Zethmayr
> W4GMH
> Crestview, Florida
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