Have a local engineer inspect it , preferably of the mechanical kind or someone
in construction with a clue as it may wel be fine but wthout a decent visual
it might fall anytime
At that age I would be suspicious or further use in another location
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 01:47:16 +0000
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Advice on 40 year old radio tower
I don't know if I can put the pictures on..
--- In [email protected], Lee Pennington <localjunkpedd...@...>
wrote:
>
> Pictures would help,
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:27 PM, dgrapach <dgrap...@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I need advice on using an old radio tower. It looks like to be the size of
> > a 45G, the cross bars are bolted on instead of welded. The
> >
> > tower looks as if it is ok, light surface rust, bolts look ok on the
> > outside, of course can't see inside. Heavy rust and pitting on several guy
> > wires,
> >
> > guys are in amoung the trees, the location needs cleared, tower height 150
> > feet. Any one have experance on this type of tower? How much rust
> >
> > is aceptable on a gut wire? How do you decide on the safety on an old tower
> > like this? What is the differance between guy wire and cable
> >
> > used as a guy wire? So many questions... Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Denny
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> "Always drink upstream from the herd."
>
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