[TowerTalk] Insurance for my tower??

[Timothy Coker]

 Not going to even attempt to come close to your commanding knowledge of tower installation methods one bit John. Maybe my experience was a one off in the way that the insurance company wanted a certified re-installation of the same type of tower for their future liability concerns. Maybe it would have been even much different if I only had actual cash value coverage too.
Every locale is going to want to see different things. I was fortunate to not go through a re-permit process because we used all of the the existing base and the engineering stamp certifying the new plans were presented to our local building and safety department. I recall quite vividly that due to replacing with a like tower in this way I did not have to go through applying for a brand new permit. I'm personally quite happy that we went this route as law's can and do change out here in regards to what is permitted. Maybe these aren't of concern in other parts of the country?

I also thought the replacement process cost was high, until it was over with and I was taught more about what the insurance company thought versus what I did. 
At the end of it all I was given a new tower, built to newer state standards, and my permit was amended without having to re-apply. I'd imagine this would be similar to any other insurance claims that I might file, though this has been my only one as a home owner.

73,
Tim / N6WIN.

    On Friday, April 6, 2018, 2:58:34 PM PDT, john at kk9a.com <john at kk9a.com> wrote:  
 
 You can use other manufacture's towers of similar size and windload using
the existing concrete slab. It's a simple matter of either drilling and
epoxying in new mounting bolts or using an adapter plate.  I once
installed a 160' Rohn 65G tower on an old crank-up tower base by just
drilling a single hole and using anchor cement for a pier pin.

John KK9A

Timothy Coker n6win wrote:

John, remember that he has an existing concrete base that requires a
certain model tower that only US Towers will sell to him new (or their
distributors). He can’t go buy a Tashjian model unless he wants to go down
the road of excavating and putting in a new base.
73,
Tim / N6WIN.


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On Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 18:39, john at kk9a.com wrote:

Well US Towers apparently do not want to sell to hams.  Tashtowers is
significantly less expensive and the original poster installed a 20 year old
tower. It is highly unlikely that the concrete base would become damaged in
a storm.

John KK9A

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