Re: [AFMUG] stabilizing an Unguyed tower

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 12:31:06 -0800

If you only have 2 sides where you can get any distance, some sort of strong arm with a pipe to those two sides. You can get fairly robust schedule 40 pipe in 28' lengths around here. That would allow you to brace 2/3 of the way or so. With a strong arm, it would brace both in compression and extension.


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On 12/22/2020 9:38 AM, Craig House wrote:
Yeah not really this is an attempt to use what he already has to get him service which is not going to make me money back if I have to put  a lot into it

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On Dec 22, 2020, at 09:49, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:



I assume the budget does not allow replacing it with a true self-supporter?  Like a Rohn SSV, or I think Trylon makes some.

 

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Moving is not an option. No LOS from any other spot without going way taller 

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On Dec 22, 2020, at 08:49, Sam Lambie <[email protected]> wrote:



Is the owner willing to move the tower in from the property line enough to guy it properly?

 

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 7:36 AM dave <[email protected]> wrote:

How is it unstable?
 does it wobble?
or is it a sturdy /twisty kinda thing?

Most of that can be contained by just adding braces between the legs top middle bottom.
more if needed

 

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On 12/21/20 9:46 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:

On utility poles they sometimes use "sidewalk guys" in tight places.  The wire goes to an arm and then straight down.  Lateral force on the pole wants to pull straight up on the anchor so you get an auger in real deep.  Could you put an auger in adjacent to the pad?

 

 

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On 12/21/2020 10:20 PM, Craig House 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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