[TowerTalk] Mobile Towers

[Jim Rhodes]

The tops of all three sections have guy points. Every temporary cell site
tower I have ever seen were all guyed at the top if each section. Yes, most
ham type crank ups are not designed for guying the upper sections. But
these aren't ham towers.

On Sep 22, 2016 12:40 PM, "jimlux" <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 9/22/16 9:45 AM, Jim Rhodes wrote:
>
>> And they are pretty light weight towers. Look close, the diagonals are
>> tubing and the whole thing is bolted together. Designed to be guyed at the
>> top of all 3 sections. Maybe for very temporary use with light loading.
>>
>>
> I'll bet not guyed.. Crankups don't usually guy on the top because it puts
> loads on the hoist cable.
>
> They deploy these things with some lightweight antenna (wireless network,
> mini cell site,  something like that) and if it falls over in the wind,
> they pick it back up or deploy another one.
>
> They are NOT designed or intended for permanent installation.
>
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