[TowerTalk] 45G leg bolt help

[Mac]

as a person who served15 years in every city capacity on every board and 
elected position, i find very very few ordinances i ever like or agree 
with, or voted for. But this person Dick has cited is just plain stupid 
and negligent toward his neighbor/s safety and property. Tower bolts 
were the least contributing factor to this waiting calamity.

At the best, assuming it was guyed, albeit poorly by virtue of the 
severe guy wire angle, at least 60' plus feet of this stupid persons 
effort had to fall onto someone's property, hence the logical reason for 
what is typically the minimum of at least a 110% setback rule for the 
respective tower height V. every direction from the tower base to 
property boundary.

mac/mc  w5mc


On 2/8/2019 3:04 PM, Richard Solomon wrote:
> We had a local back in the Boston
> area who put up 120' of Rohn 25.
>
> He didn't know about Rohn putting
> the bolts in the tower legs so he went
> out and bought stove bolts.
>
> The tower didn't make it through the
> winter.
>
> 120' of Rohn 25 falling in a 1/4 acre lot
> is not a pretty sight !!
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:54 PM Mac <libbysales at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Emm has a tower ever come apart because the leg bolts [all 6 ] broke
>> apart, just wondering ?  mac/mc  w5mc
>>
>> On 2/8/2019 11:44 AM, Byron Tatum wrote:
>>> Hello-   I preparation for installing 2 of 45G towers 130' each, a while
>> back I bought the required quantity of leg bolt kits #45JBK from a Rohn
>> dealer sold as a Rohn product. These were supplied with bolts/nuts inside
>> plastic tubers with a cap at one end. I did not realize the nuts were
>> staked (3 stake indentations per nut). In fact, they are so heavily staked
>> that they are destroying the threads of the bolts plus really heating up
>> the bolts. I feel like the torque to thread nuts on is excessive and am
>> waiting for a bolt to twist off. Needless to say I will reject all of
>> these.   I have searched until I am blue in the face for a supplier of
>> grade 5 hot dipped galvanized bolts. Can anyone tell me where I can buy
>> these two sizes of grade 5 hot dipped galvanized bolts 5/16" x 2-3/8" long
>> and 7/16" x 2-1/2" long with nuts? I really do not want to buy any more
>> 45JBK not knowing whether they are staked or not, plus the 5/16" nuts in my
>> kits were NOT hot dipped.Byron W5FH
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