[TowerTalk] Please critique my plan for installing this tower

[Ed Sawyer]

A couple of quick comments.  

 

Is all that work on restoring a 20 year old crank up tower actually worth
it?

 

Having experienced a total of 6 lightning strikes over 10 years with 2 - 85
foot tall structures, I can tell that only 1 of the 6 hit the top mast of
the tower (approximately 4 ft above the highest yagi to hold the trusses).
The other 5 either hit the ground in the nearby vicinity or in one case hit
my 10M yagi at the 30 ft level (go figure).

 

My personal opinion is that a lightning rod on the top of a tower is
useless.

 

Ed  N1UR