[TowerTalk] Raising Towers

[john at kk9a.com]

I agree that many of us do things at times that are less then optimal,
knowing the risks. I have installed 30' temporary towers and masts in the
Caribbean that could have easily fallen. Here are more pictures of the
installation-> http://w7yrv.blogspot.com/ Certainly building sterba
curtains would be a very interesting project

John KK9A


Re: [TowerTalk] Raising Towers
from [Jim Lux]	[Permanent Link][Original]
To:	towertalk at contesting.com
Subject:	 Re: [TowerTalk] Raising Towers
From:	 Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net>
Date:	 Thu, 26 Dec 2013 20:58:30 -0800

On 12/26/13 7:29 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
I usually do not comment on things like this, however these are some of the
scariest tower pictures I have seen. Besides the lack of any real  P.P.E. I
would be concerned about the integrity of the 200 foot towers.  The tubing
is kinked where it is bent who knows what the yield strength is or the
condition the welds. http://w7yrv.blogspot.com/2013/10/roys-qth-w7yrv.html
The guy cable appears to be very small wire rope.  In one picture it is
connected to the guy anchor  with rubber bungee cords.



Yeah.. scary is a good word.. But hey, if it falls down, it's in your back
yard.

I'm not sure about all the bungees. Maybe he got a bunch cheap and they
serve whatever purpose?

I'm sure we've all built something that is suboptimal.. perhaps not a
tower, but maybe a breadboard. Think of this as a structural breadboard
(with potentially bigger consequences than a cooked resistor or capacitor
or blown semiconductor).

We're not standing there looking at the welds. The guy who's putting this
stuff up did the welds himself, and he's clearly comfortable with the
bends and welds. And, he's clearly comfortable accepting whatever risk is
associated with that. I wouldn't be so comfortable, but who am I to tell
him whether he should do it or not.

I'm sure he's had plenty of folks tell him "are you crazy"