[TowerTalk] Tower Yarns was:Re: Fwd: Welding Rebar

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

N4KG used to - may still- just base some guyed towers in the dirt.  Back 
in the 70's, we had a 20-foot Rohn 25 tower with a Classic 36 on it, on 
the roof of a State Department annex in DC.  We were not allowed to 
pierce the roof, so the base was stabilized with 3 "guys" right on the 
roof, tied off to cast-iron vent pipes. And, you guessed it, the tower 
was guyed to the same vents.  To my amazement, it lasted 8 years, until 
a microburst blew the whole thing over the side, where it hung 
"secured", IIRC, by the feedline and maybe one guy.  God takes care of 
the ignorant, you'd have to say, or else the whole thing would have 
wound up in 22nd Street NW.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 1/6/2014 7:40 AM, David Robbins wrote:
> K2TTT is Jay, I don't know what he has done.  But I used to have a left over field day tower that was 60' of rohn 25 and just standing on a roof plate with screw in anchors.  All it had was a small tribander at most, in the end it was just vhf/uhf stuff.  That one used 3/16" ehs for guys, though it started with rope for fieldday.
>
> right now I have 4 verticals for the 80m 4-square that are sitting on roof plates and guyed with Dacron rope.  the only problem with those is that they move too much for the porcelain insulators I bought for them so I had to reinforce them with fiberglass angle stock.
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> Jan 6, 2014 12:58:58 AM, hanslg at aol.com wrote:
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> I believe K2TTT put one tower up using nothing as a base, just the tower standing on a small plate, resting directly on ground. Yes, it is (was) guyed.
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> Dave, am I correct?
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> Hans - N2JFS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken
> To: towertalk
> Sent: Sun, Jan 5, 2014 3:55 pm
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Welding Rebar
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>
> Why use Rebar at all. I put 3 towers up using chicken wire and tie
> wraps off bread wrappers. So far only 2 have fallen down,
>
> 73, Ken
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