[TowerTalk] screw anchors in sandy soil

[Big Don]

If the soil is questionable, you could always screw in 2, 3, 4,...N such
anchors adjacently, lash their eyes together with a big chain, or some
other HB conglomerized bracket, and attach the guy to *that*, and sleep
well......


On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 6:22 AM, <Cqtestk4xs at aol.com> wrote:

> After Hurricane Charlie roared through Punta Gorda in 2005 I had to  make a
> tower delivery to Clear Channel for a back up link the next day.  I  saw
> several tower failures with screw anchors yanked out of the ground.   Wet
> sandy soil was evident at the anchor points.
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> I have FL sugar sand at my QTH and have used screw anchors on only  one of
> the towers...a 65 footer with a light load.  The screw anchors on  that one
> are 8 feet long and are the same ones the power companies use.   The 200
> footers are all guyed with concrete "sleds" 7 feet wide, four feet front
>  to
> back and 3 feet thick, buried 5 1/2 to 6 ft deep with enough rebar and
> concrete to build a small house in FL.  Pretty much to Rohn  specs.
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> Bill K4XS
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