At 11:57 AM 2/26/03 -0500, RICHARD BOYD wrote:
>W3LPL uses a separate anchor for each individual guy wire. Just another
>"data point."
This is another point that makes tremendous good sense. Rohn seems to lean
heavily, in their catalogue, toward bringing all of the guys on a given
side to a common anchor, and then using an equalizer plate to transfer all
the loads to a common anchor rod. Of course, if that rod were to fail, for
whatever reason, the tower would be free to fall over like a tree.
It seems to me that it would make good sense to attach at least the top set
of guys from a tower to a separate anchor a bit further out. Doing so
would tether the tower in the event of a failure of either guy anchor on a
side, and might give you a chance to retrieve things. It would also give
you the option of spreading the top guys a bit farther than the others, to
ease stacking.
73, Pete N4ZR
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