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Re: [TowerTalk] Fall Zone

To: jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fall Zone
From: Glenn Pritchard <gpritchard7000@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 10:38:34 -0700
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Boy is there a lot of misinformation here.

Glenn, VA7UO 

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> On Jul 8, 2019, at 10:36 AM, jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/8/19 9:34 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 11:20:31 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Wilson  Lamb <infomet@embarqmail.com>
>> To: undefined <towertalk@contesting.com>
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Fall Zone
>> <I wouldn't want a neighbor's tower/Yagi looming over my backyard...and I 
>> love towers!
>> <The fall zone idea seems like simple good manners.
>> <I have been loosely involved in dropping 200' BC towers, dropped by cutting 
>> the rods at one guy anchor, thus losing all guys on that side.
>> <They fell absolutely full length, with a few sections not even bent!
>> <I think a foundation failure (soil, bolt, gin pole) would drop a crankup to 
>> full length.
>> <Is there any experience available on this?
>> <WL
>> ##  per software,  Trylon self support  towers will  fail  at the junction  
>> of the 4th  and  5th  section..... 40’  above ground.
>> UST  designs a weak  spot.... which  is  midway  up  the  3rd  section...  
>> 46.5  feet  above ground.
>> ##  Never seen  a pix  of  either  tower folded  over... as  depicted  
>> above.    40  ft...and  46.5 ft.   So dont  know if  their
>> design theory  works....or not.
> 
> It doesn't have to be a specially designed weak spot. Towers tend to 
> bend/buckle in the middle anyway.
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