[TowerTalk] Polygon Guy Rods

[Tim Duffy]

Hello Ron:

Please contact PiRod (Valmont) and tell them what you are proposing. That is
the only safe way.

All of the towers at K3LR are PiRod. Mine are not rotating towers. They are
guyed as per PiRod designed and engineered specifications.
PiRod will frown at your proposed rotating tower installation.

PiRod does not approve of rotating towers (the steel tower cork screws) -
which is a significant problem. Rohn towers (pipe vertical legs) are worse.

73
Tim K3LR

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ron
WV4P
Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2019 7:41 PM
To: K9MA
Cc: towertalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Polygon Guy Rods

Thanks again for the clarifications on size. If only there was Manufacturer
Specifications for 100' Pirod Rotating towers lol. I appreciate all the
replies, yall, as expected, have been very helpful. Ron, WV4P

On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 at 14:28, K9MA <k9ma at sdellington.us> wrote:

> On 9/8/2019 14:17, Tim Duffy wrote:
> > Use qualified professionals to install your tower, accidents happen
> (several this year already) and you do not want anything bad to happen to
> you or your friends.
>
> I hope others have better luck with that than I did. I hired a
> well-known local outfit, Wave Communication, to replace my Rohn 25 this
> spring. They sent two inexperienced guys to take it down, with no gin
> pole or tower jack. They had to use my bolt cutter to cut the guy wires.
> Then it took them a couple hours just to get the top section off. They
> didn't have a drill bit big enough for the pier pin. At least they were
> very expensive. They were supposed to come back in a week to put up the
> new tower. Six weeks later, I fired them and hired a local ham, with
> whom I put the tower up in a day.
>
> 73,
>
> Scott K9MA
>
> --
> Scott  K9MA
>
> k9ma at sdellington.us
>
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