[TowerTalk] Fwd: Guying Alum Tower

[Hans Hammarquist]

Hi William,


I have a 85 foot, aluminum tower made from parts from Universal and Heights. (Yes, with some difficulties you can fit them together.) I add a link to my facebook page. You can, kind of, see how I attached four guy wires to the tower. I prefer 4 guy wires as that gives a slight better load situation and allow for a larger misalignment of the anchor point.


A point, the guy wires are not connected at the top but about 1/4 - 1/3  down. That gives a better distributions of the wind load on the tower.


https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150198503693539.328964.579753538&type=1&l=b4a8463457


I will, weather permitting, climb the tower in a week or so and can take some pictures detailing the guy connection.


Hans - N2JFS



-----Original Message-----
From: wosborne44 <wosborne44 at gmail.com>
To: towertalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Dec 7, 2015 12:39 pm
Subject: [TowerTalk] Guying Alum Tower

I have a 50 foot Universal Aluminum tower which I would like to extend 
to 80-100 feet and guy it to offset the fact the base sections would not 
be large enough for Universal's design drawings at that height.   Anyone 
have any experience good or bad in trying to do something like this?

Thanks,

William Osborne--K5ZQ

270-205-9565

Wosborne44 at gmail.com



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