[TowerTalk] Rohn tower installation specifications

[Greg]

This I guess answers a question I was going to ask.  I have 20 ft of r25
bracketed to my garage at abt 12 ft.  My plan was to put another 10 or
maybe 20 ft on it unguyed and with a haze for a 6m5x and as a support for
an 80m edz of abt 340 ft.  No climbing would be needed except for
installing the two more sections.  I was not planning on guying this but I
guess I should.  I could probably do temp guys for installation.
73
Greg
AB7R
 On Apr 2, 2012 5:06 PM, "K8RI" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net> wrote:

> On 4/2/2012 7:05 PM, Jim Hoge wrote:
> >
> > I can only imagine how wallowed out the bolt holes must be on a self
> supporting 40' Rohn 25G tower. I won't climb more than 20'  of unguyed 25G.
> The "I've done it for years" statement is not an acceptable reason for
> unsafe practices. Temporary guys are a must when working on that tower.  It
> only takes one whoops to make it a really, really bad day.
>
> I'm used to climbing 100' of 45G guyed with 6000# test Phillystran which
> is rock steady in a 20 or 30 MPH wind. I have 40' of a 50' 25G up. It's
> bracketed at the roof line and guyed with 5/16" synthetic temporary
> lines. just below 40' and at 30'.  Technically it could go that high
> without guys.  I find it to be "unsteady" at 40 feet with guys on a calm
> day. No way would I climb 40' of the stuff unguyed, let alone more.
>
> The top section is ready to raise, has the guy brackets in place, and
> all I have left to do is calculate the lengths of the Phillystran guys
> and prepare them.
>
> Call me chicken if you'd like, but I've been climbing for over 50 years
> and have never once gotten hurt on a climb.
>
> We used to live a few hundred yards West of a commercial tower.  I had
> permission to climb it as I often worked on it. Many an evening I'd go
> up that thing just to shoot photos of the sunsets.  I like to climb and
> I like to fly aerobatics, but I do not like to take unnecessary chances.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>
>
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