If possible you might try to check with the tower manufacturer and see how
marginal the vertical forces would become if you still used 25 and fifty but
just brought the anchors inside you property line. You probably would find
that you could buy a lot of safety factor without much, if any, risk from
the vertical loading. Otherwise, just don't tighten the uppers too much and
you'ld have the protection in case you got caught in a blow with it up. If
there was ever enough wind to make it fail in compression, it probably would
have failed from bending moment much earlier if the uppers weren't there.
Gene / W2LU
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Short" <mike.short@mchsi.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 1:52 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] AlumaTower T-50H guying questions
> Alumatower shows two guy wires at 25ft and 50ft when extended, and the guy
> anchor is 40ft from the tower.
>
> I want to guy it at 25ft only because of room issues in my back yard. It
> will be nested for the most part, and only extended while in use. I will
> be
> putting a hexbeam and maybe a Cushcraft A505S 6M 5 element beam on it.
>
> If I guy it at 25ft only, would I want to guy it using the same angle as
> it
> is at 50ft? Would that be the same downward pressure? If so, it would move
> the guy anchor inward to 29ft.
>
> Would this be reasonable/safe?
>
> Mike
> AI4NS
>
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