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[TowerTalk] Broken Rohn 25G Base Section

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Broken Rohn 25G Base Section
From: "Melvin Brafford" <roadrulz@isp.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:04:12 -0400
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On May 21 a storm took down my 100' Rohn 25G. All the "big grip" connections, 
EHS cable, etc held up ok. When an 80' tall tree fell on the SE guy wires, the 
NW guy anchor pulled up out of the ground, and the tower folded like a hair-pin 
at the 30' level, and fell toward the direction of the tree(SE). The force 
exerted on the tower as the tree hit it also, broke one of the tower legs at 
just above the 2' level. The 25G was pushed and pulled at the same time. I'm 
left with around 2 feet of tower sticking out of the concrete base. The swaged 
ends are gone, and all I have left is the 3 legs which appear to be ok, and the 
2 remaining cross and Z brace sets seem ok. I wonder if anyone would trust 
using the remaining base section stub, and if so how would you attach the next 
section above it? Thanks, and direct dialogue will be fine, so as not to 
clutter up the reflector.

73, Mick  W4YV
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