The big issue with the 100' variety is the sides at the top are not big enough to put two feet in and if you move around to much you bend the supports up as they are so thin. But yes a climbed it a number of times.
The issue with them is at 100' the engineered load is so small it is nearly impossible not to overload them. One omni AP is about all they can handle. Not that they won't stand for years with a lot more, but when really tested they fail. On Apr 27, 2015 11:18 PM, "Brandon Yuchasz" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dang man. You climb it? Every time we needed to work on it we laid it down. Last time the truck we hired to lay it down we ended up just using the lift truck to ride up and make the repairs. > > > > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 9:57 PM > > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] tower mount > > > > Yeah, we have two of these and they are flimsy as hell. I wouldn't do a 3' dish. I am putting a 2' on one, but staying as close to the bottom as possible. We inherited one that had a 2' halfway, and a bunch of 3' grids up top. It had been standing for 8 years. We removed all of the grids and added sectors. These things still scare the crap out of me. I have been pricing boom trucks because I hate climbing these so bad. > > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Lewis Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Normally yes, but in this case guy wires would likely cause premature failure as I doubt the legs have the compression strength to sustain the additional load. > > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:12 PM, SmarterBroadband < [email protected]> wrote: > > Guy wires are your friend. > > > > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Mano > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 6:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] tower mount > > > > do you have a link of that mount? > > ________________________________ > > From: Af <[email protected]> on behalf of Lewis Bergman < [email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 9:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] tower mount > > > > I had a few of those towers and I would not recommend mounting a 3' dish trip a single leg. They are really thin and tend to twist. Trylon makes a mount that runs across the face bolting to two legs. That way when you overload it it blows straight over instead of twisting around. > > On Apr 26, 2015 12:50 AM, "Steve Utick" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've put a standard MTOW on our trylon by flipping the inside mount backwards and clamping the leg in the MTOW mount. You have to be up a bit so the legs are small enough to fit in between the bolts, but it's pretty sturdy. > > > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Ryan Mano <[email protected]> wrote: > > need to mount a 3' dish to the leg of a trylon tower...am looking at WB but am not sure what to get...am guessing it would be something like a M-TOW-P? but from the picture the mount is attached to the leg of the tower is round in shape my tower is an "L" shape.... > > > > > > > > > > > >
