as a person who served15 years in every city capacity on every board and
elected position, i find very very few ordinances i ever like or agree
with, or voted for. But this person Dick has cited is just plain stupid
and negligent toward his neighbor/s safety and property. Tower bolts
were the least contributing factor to this waiting calamity.
At the best, assuming it was guyed, albeit poorly by virtue of the
severe guy wire angle, at least 60' plus feet of this stupid persons
effort had to fall onto someone's property, hence the logical reason for
what is typically the minimum of at least a 110% setback rule for the
respective tower height V. every direction from the tower base to
property boundary.
mac/mc w5mc
On 2/8/2019 3:04 PM, Richard Solomon wrote:
We had a local back in the Boston
area who put up 120' of Rohn 25.
He didn't know about Rohn putting
the bolts in the tower legs so he went
out and bought stove bolts.
The tower didn't make it through the
winter.
120' of Rohn 25 falling in a 1/4 acre lot
is not a pretty sight !!
73, Dick, W1KSZ
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:54 PM Mac <libbysales@austin.rr.com> wrote:
Emm has a tower ever come apart because the leg bolts [all 6 ] broke
apart, just wondering ? mac/mc w5mc
On 2/8/2019 11:44 AM, Byron Tatum wrote:
Hello- I preparation for installing 2 of 45G towers 130' each, a while
back I bought the required quantity of leg bolt kits #45JBK from a Rohn
dealer sold as a Rohn product. These were supplied with bolts/nuts inside
plastic tubers with a cap at one end. I did not realize the nuts were
staked (3 stake indentations per nut). In fact, they are so heavily staked
that they are destroying the threads of the bolts plus really heating up
the bolts. I feel like the torque to thread nuts on is excessive and am
waiting for a bolt to twist off. Needless to say I will reject all of
these. I have searched until I am blue in the face for a supplier of
grade 5 hot dipped galvanized bolts. Can anyone tell me where I can buy
these two sizes of grade 5 hot dipped galvanized bolts 5/16" x 2-3/8" long
and 7/16" x 2-1/2" long with nuts? I really do not want to buy any more
45JBK not knowing whether they are staked or not, plus the 5/16" nuts in my
kits were NOT hot dipped.Byron W5FH
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