Just make him rent a lift when you need to service it. Not your fault he build a sketchy tower. I think your proposed guy wires would do little improve climber comfort and zero to improve actual safety.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 10:20 PM Craig House <[email protected]> wrote: > > The attached drawing is rough but I hope you get the idea. It is not the > tower in questions but is a photo I had I could mark up > > I have a customer that has a tower in the very corner of their yard 90 > degree angle corner. Best I can get in the yard is one guy wire and the > neighbor is not an option to put guy wires in. 25g 50' tall. I'd like to > make it more stable but how? The base is in concrete and has been there for > some time. Heavy winds have not caused damage to the tower so it is not > about how solid it is as much as how much it moves Would a guy wire design > where all three legs were guyed back to the base of the tower using some kind > of stand off in the middle do anything? I think it might make the tower more > rigid but would it keep it from swaying? Since some of the unstableness of > the tower comes from the joints it seems like it might help but is it worth > the effort? I maybe could move out 3' from the base but that angle just > doesn't do much more than attaching to the base just above the concrete. > Thoughts?-- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
