[TowerTalk] H-beam for elevated guy

[Wayne Kline]

Hi Steve
  I have installed a few elevated guy anchor installations in the past.    when you say 8" flange length I assume your talking about the inner WEB length ?
Also not an engineer  my installation are over kill for sure... one had a 12" web 4" flange face 12  16 ft long. dug holes 9 to 10 ft deep  the beams were cut a a 45 deg angle at the top and drilled for 4   1/2" X 16 eye jaw turn buckles.  the bottom of the  beams were drilled 3/4" holes for 6   rebar  lateral tie in, Used  1 1/2 yard 3000# mix in each hole  with the beam place not center but just off the front ( towards tower face )   The holes were back filled , 
My installation is 150 ft of rohn 65  guys three ways and three levels with about the same but  each elevated posts were two bolted together 12" X 4" X 16' U channel and the turn buckle bracket is a 8" X 6"  T channel  bolted to the top of the exposed 6' U channels .
I have a set of PE drawings for 7' elevated  guy posts somewhere in my file cabinet. was for an installation of 150' rohn 55 in the New Mexico hardpan !  
 
 My personal opinion  I do not like filling the hole to the top with cement... when there is rain water seeping around the pour is becomes the wine bottle cork
and there is no mother EARTH  resistance just the blocks  weight    just my  .02 
 
 
Wayne W3EA 

 
> From: K7LXC at aol.com
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:00:34 -0500
> To: towertalk at contesting.com; kr7x at arrl.net
> Subject: [TowerTalk] H-beam for elevated guy
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> Howdy --
>  
>     I'm trying to get an idea of a good size for a 6'  elevated guy anchor 
> (with 4 feet in the ground and it'll have a backstay). It's  for 100' of 
> 45G. I was thinking of using an 8" flange length. That might be  enough since 
> it'll be backguyed but since I'm not an engineer, I was looking for  some 
> feedback on this. TIA.
>  
> Cheers,
> Steve     K7LXC
>  
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