If the wires are tight in your proposed in & out configuration they
could limit the tower from bending in the middle, but it's still free to
pivot on the base. The steel being free to bend right now must absorb
some of the lateral force, and you'd instead be transferring all that
force into the base.
I think it would reduce, but not eliminate lateral movement, but it
would increase stress at the point where the guy wires are attached to
the base.
I think you'd be better with the sidewalk guy.
I'm not an engineer, but I play one on TV.
On 12/21/2020 10:50 PM, Craig House wrote:
Yeah So sidewalk guys is kind of what I was considering but using the
base of the tower with a turnbuckle instead.
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*From: *"Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]>
*To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]>
*Sent: *Monday, December 21, 2020 9:47:01 PM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] stabilizing an Unguyed tower
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.
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