For utility poles, they have what is called a sidewalk guy.  Or at grain 
elevators, if they can’t put the guy anchor far enough out, they will sink an 
I-beam and attach the guy to the top of that.

 

From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Jones
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2020 9:41 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] stabilizing an Unguyed tower

 

Do they make tower struts? I would think rigid enough struts would probably be 
massive and so heavy that the down force would exceed the base load, but what 
do I know. Probably would cost less to put up a self supporting tower at that 
point anyway

 

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 9:20 PM Craig House <[email protected] 
<mailto:[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?-- 
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