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[TowerTalk] Tower Surveying Tools?

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower Surveying Tools?
From: ve7hcb@rac.ca (Chris BONDE)
Date: Tue Jun 10 00:44:07 2003
At 04:38 PM 2003-06-09 -0400, you wrote:
>    The easiest thing to do is to stand a section in the spot where the base
>is going to go. Aim the legs in the directions where you want the anchors to
>go. Look thru the face to the opposite leg and that'll show you where the
>anchor goes. Measure from the leg the distance you want and start digging.
>
>     This method is handy to put the anchors where you want when you've got
>terrain or vegetation challenges. Just rotate the tower until you've got the
>anchors where you want them. By definition they'll be 120 degrees apart.

This is what I was asking when I said,   "...   (Say arenot most towers 
with three verticals have the 3 verticals 120 degrees apart?)  ..."

IF each of the verticals of the tower are 120 degrees apart this way should 
be the easiest way.

Chris opr VE7HCB


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