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removing guy wires on tower
I have 6 sections of Rohn 25 set in a yard of cement. It is guyed at about
30 feet and about 5 feet under the top of the tower with 3 wires at each place. I need to remove the wires on one side so I can cut a tree to keep it from falling on the guy wires. On top of the tower is about 15 feet of pipe sticking out. About a foot over the tower is a 3 element triband, and at about 5 feet spacing is a 5 element 6 meter antenna, two meter,and 432 antenna all on 15 feet long booms. Will it be safe to remove the two guy wires on one side of the tower for about an hour to cut the trees, or should I let the tension off all the guy wires ? This would be done when the wind is not blowing. |
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removing guy wires on tower
"Ralph Mowery" wrote in
m: I have 6 sections of Rohn 25 set in a yard of cement. It is guyed at about 30 feet and about 5 feet under the top of the tower with 3 wires at each place. I need to remove the wires on one side so I can cut a tree to keep it from falling on the guy wires. On top of the tower is about 15 feet of pipe sticking out. About a foot over the tower is a 3 element triband, and at about 5 feet spacing is a 5 element 6 meter antenna, two meter,and 432 antenna all on 15 feet long booms. Will it be safe to remove the two guy wires on one side of the tower for about an hour to cut the trees, or should I let the tension off all the guy wires ? This would be done when the wind is not blowing. As you have probably guessed, guy maintenance on towers is a high risk activity. Lots of seriously large towers have failed because a single guy was slackened. The taller the tower, the greater the risk. In any circumstance, slackening (or removing) one guy of a set will introduce a lateral force that bends the tower. With sufficient weight, that may lead to buckling and structural failure. If you remove all guys in a set by progressively slackening each them, that may not introduce the lateral force describe above, but the greater length between existing supports may allow buckling and structural failure. Can you remove all guys? Is the tower installation designed to be free standing at reasonable wind velocity? The safe answer is to consult a structural engineer. Can you remove the tree without slackening guys and without risking dropping parts of the tree on the guys? Perhaps cutting the tree into smaller lengths that are lowered to the ground on ropes to guide and slow the descent? I have watched tree climbers take huge trees down, lowering all the pieces in a very limited space against the trunk. Have you asked your arborist about the removal and the risk to the tower? Owen |
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Just from what you've posted, your tower sounds sort of 'marginal' to
start with. I would be very careful in loosening any of those guys. - 'Doc |
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removing guy wires on tower
"'Doc" wrote in message ... Just from what you've posted, your tower sounds sort of 'marginal' to start with. I would be very careful in loosening any of those guys. - 'Doc Unless I missed something when I described the tower, what is marginal ? The first section of tower is set in a yard of cement as described in the Rohn booklet. Also they only require two sets of guy wires up to 70 feet. I live in the middle of North Carolina so a large build up of ice or very high winds ( say over 90 mph) would be unusual. |
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On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:55:55 GMT, Owen Duffy wrote:
Perhaps cutting the tree into smaller lengths that are lowered to the ground on ropes to guide and slow the descent? I have watched tree climbers take huge trees down, lowering all the pieces in a very limited space against the trunk. Here in the Pacific Northwest, tree country, I have never seen any other way except for when trees are layed over indiscriminately as part of a clearing operation. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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removing guy wires on tower
Ralph Mowery wrote:
"'Doc" wrote in message ... Just from what you've posted, your tower sounds sort of 'marginal' to start with. I would be very careful in loosening any of those guys. - 'Doc Unless I missed something when I described the tower, what is marginal ? The first section of tower is set in a yard of cement as described in the Rohn booklet. Also they only require two sets of guy wires up to 70 feet. I live in the middle of North Carolina so a large build up of ice or very high winds ( say over 90 mph) would be unusual. On the "internets", there is always someone for whom your tower setup is not acceptable. Doesn't matter how well made and installed, there's something wrong with it, and it will come crashing down, causing you great liability problems. Anyhow, being that the tower and guys are part of a system, I'd either have the loppers take the tree down in stages with sections roped down, or install temporary guys. Th/e first method is much easier and cheaper. - 73 d eMike N3LI - |
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removing guy wires on tower
"Michael Coslo" wrote in message ... Ralph Mowery wrote: Unless I missed something when I described the tower, what is marginal ? The first section of tower is set in a yard of cement as described in the Rohn booklet. Also they only require two sets of guy wires up to 70 feet. I live in the middle of North Carolina so a large build up of ice or very high winds ( say over 90 mph) would be unusual. On the "internets", there is always someone for whom your tower setup is not acceptable. Doesn't matter how well made and installed, there's something wrong with it, and it will come crashing down, causing you great liability problems. Anyhow, being that the tower and guys are part of a system, I'd either have the loppers take the tree down in stages with sections roped down, or install temporary guys. Th/e first method is much easier and cheaper. - 73 d eMike N3LI - I have noticed that. No mater what you have someone usually chimes in that it is not the best. I bet I could have said I put one section in 10 yards of cement and had it guyed with a 2 meter ground plane on it and someone would do the same. I was waiting on a comeback as to why it needed improving. Pix he http://home.earthlink.net/~ku4pt/ima...%20on%20tower/ I can not put the temporay guy wires on as they would still be where the tree may fall. There are only 2 trees about a foot or so in diameter and about 50 to 60 feet tall. Poplar trees without limbs for about the first 30 or so feet.It will only take a short to just cut them. I have seen towers that don't look near as good stand up long times. I don't think it would be any problem for the tower to stay up without guys if there was no wind. I was hoping that someone on here had done something similar over the years and could say the best way. Drop all wires , or just one side. |
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removing guy wires on tower
Ralph Mowery wrote:
I have noticed that. No mater what you have someone usually chimes in that it is not the best. I bet I could have said I put one section in 10 yards of cement and had it guyed with a 2 meter ground plane on it and someone would do the same. I was waiting on a comeback as to why it needed improving. The concrete might not be of good quality - Has a complte workup been done on the composition? I thought not. Hell, that thing is likely to fall, and completely obliterate a 10 block area! 8^) Pix he http://home.earthlink.net/~ku4pt/ima...%20on%20tower/ I can not put the temporay guy wires on as they would still be where the tree may fall. There are only 2 trees about a foot or so in diameter and about 50 to 60 feet tall. Poplar trees without limbs for about the first 30 or so feet.It will only take a short to just cut them. I have seen towers that don't look near as good stand up long times. I don't think it would be any problem for the tower to stay up without guys if there was no wind. I was hoping that someone on here had done something similar over the years and could say the best way. Drop all wires , or just one side. That part I couldn't tell ya. Can you guy the trees so to speak? Get a rope around them somewhere far up and cut to fall in the direction you want? Pulling on the attached rope via come-along might send them where you need them to go. - 73 de Mike N3LI - |
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removing guy wires on tower
I can not put the temporay guy wires on as they would still be where the tree may fall. There are only 2 trees about a foot or so in diameter and about 50 to 60 feet tall. Poplar trees without limbs for about the first 30 or so feet.It will only take a short to just cut them. I have seen towers that don't look near as good stand up long times. I don't think it would be any problem for the tower to stay up without guys if there was no wind. I was hoping that someone on here had done something similar over the years and could say the best way. Drop all wires , or just one side. While I must disagree with my own offering below, I realize your situation and will offer a suggestion, anyway. I would loosen, slightly, the remaining two guy wires so as to not have them pulling tightly on the tower when the third one is removed. However, I would be concerned with no guy at all in that side of the tower.... could you remove the guy in question and move it to a temporary anchor point still on the 180 degree side of the tower where it might still offer a minimal amount of support?... and could you use a temporty rope as far to the other side of the 180 degree side in question and set up a temporary guy there? Without ANY minimal support, should the tree bump the tower when it is falling, you could have a disaster without some kind of minimal insurance guys. Heck, even a 20 foot 2 x 4 braced against the opposite side of the tower might be better than nothing. Ed K7AAT .. |
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removing guy wires on tower
"Ed" wrote in message . 192.196... While I must disagree with my own offering below, I realize your situation and will offer a suggestion, anyway. I would loosen, slightly, the remaining two guy wires so as to not have them pulling tightly on the tower when the third one is removed. However, I would be concerned with no guy at all in that side of the tower.... could you remove the guy in question and move it to a temporary anchor point still on the 180 degree side of the tower where it might still offer a minimal amount of support?... and could you use a temporty rope as far to the other side of the 180 degree side in question and set up a temporary guy there? Without ANY minimal support, should the tree bump the tower when it is falling, you could have a disaster without some kind of minimal insurance guys. Heck, even a 20 foot 2 x 4 braced against the opposite side of the tower might be better than nothing. Ed K7AAT Ed the trees I want to remove are not close enough to hit the tower. The guy wires are almost 50 feet out from the tower and some other trees in between. My problem is there is a gap between some other trees and it is almost a funnel effect that will put the tree I want to cut almost on top of one set of guys. Something like the last 20 or 30 feet of tree could hit that set of guys. I don't think I can move the guys that I want to take loose. They might still be in the line of fire..I will probably wait to cool weather gets here. Too hot for now when I can be inside playing with the radio. |
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