If he just had it at the side of the yard instead of in a corner, you might be able to do a variation on how torque arms are guyed.
If I remember correctly, they establish guy points in between the tower legs and you then attach guy wires to 2 guy anchors. The aim being to keep the tower from twisting. But you could also use this strategy to replace a single guy wire with two guy wires at +/- 60 degrees from that angle. That might help a little with a single property line, but not a corner. I assume torque arm guys also experience more tension because they are pulling against each other and not just against the tower. -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 5:58 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Cc: Chuck McCown <ch...@go-mtc.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] stabilizing an Unguyed tower I think I would do your triple guy wire and strut but I would move the bottom anchors out as far as possible. I have seen horizontal structural beams that use that same design, Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 21, 2020, at 8:48 PM, Craig House <cr...@totalhighspeed.net> wrote: > > Its not about comfort on the tower as much as it is trying to keep the link > stable. Plus it is a pain to align since turning a wrench moves the tower. > So AF24 and and MM wave gear is near impossible to align. I'm always about > trying to figure out a way to resolve something like this. I like the > engineering challenge but this one has me a bit baffled. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Fabien" <ch...@lakenetmi.com> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> > Sent: Monday, December 21, 2020 9:42:12 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] stabilizing an Unguyed tower > > Just make him rent a lift when you need to service it. Not your fault > he build a sketchy tower. I think your proposed guy wires would do > little improve climber comfort and zero to improve actual safety. > >> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 10:20 PM Craig House <cr...@totalhighspeed.net> >> wrote: >> >> The attached drawing is rough but I hope you get the idea. It is not >> the tower in questions but is a photo I had I could mark up >> >> I have a customer that has a tower in the very corner of their yard 90 >> degree angle corner. Best I can get in the yard is one guy wire and the >> neighbor is not an option to put guy wires in. 25g 50' tall. I'd like to >> make it more stable but how? The base is in concrete and has been there >> for some time. Heavy winds have not caused damage to the tower so it is not >> about how solid it is as much as how much it moves Would a guy wire design >> where all three legs were guyed back to the base of the tower using some >> kind of stand off in the middle do anything? I think it might make the >> tower more rigid but would it keep it from swaying? Since some of the >> unstableness of the tower comes from the joints it seems like it might help >> but is it worth the effort? I maybe could move out 3' from the base but >> that angle just doesn't do much more than attaching to the base just above >> the concrete. Thoughts?-- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
