[TowerTalk] Guying Rohn 25

[Jim Brown]

On 9/9/2012 9:31 AM, Ro Grrr wrote:
> R25 is strong and doesn't need guys.

We don't need no stinking structural analysis, and we don't need to 
understand the forces that a tornado or severe thunderstorm can place on 
a tower, nor the pulling force that a guy wire can place on something 
it's attached to, like a roof.  WRONG!

YOU might have gotten away with it, but that doesn't mean that everyone 
(or anyone) else will, or that it is safe.  No smart climber is going to 
climb anything he doesn't think is safe. I don't climb, but the very 
experienced climber who works on my Rohn 25, guyed per Rohn specs at 30, 
60, 90, and 116 ft,  told me that as he was building it, even with only 
40 ft in place it didn't feel good until that first set of guys was 
installed. And 4 ft of that tower is poured in nearly two tons of concrete!

73, Jim K9YC