[TowerTalk] Unitary tower strength

[Bill M]

A tree took out one guy wire on my 50’ Rohn 25 and that was enough to take the tower down. Base was intact. Tower bent over the roof. Thanks to Katrina. 
Bill W2CQ

> On Apr 10, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Grant Saviers <grants2 at pacbell.net> wrote:
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> "more towers are killed by trees than trees by towers"
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> About one per year in my local club.  Trees 3/0 in 3 years.   All were a guy wire taken out by a tree fall.
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> That's the downside of dense free wire antenna supports to 100' here in WWA.
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> Grant KZ1W
> Redmond, WA
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> On 4/10/2018 8:39 AM, k7lxc--- via TowerTalk wrote:
>>>  Something I have always wanted to ask. Have you ever seen a tower come down due to a failed base?
>>       The only failures I've seen were due to something else. With guyed towers, it was mainly due to some sort of guy failure. For self-supporters the tower bent 2/3 or so up the tower. Never seen a base failure.
>>  Cheers,
>> Steve    K7LXC
>> TOWER TECH
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