It can be calculated with steel and fiberglass, but yeah with wood I
don't know for sure.
Swaying side to side doesn't hurt anything enough to notice, but front
to back will change the antenna's elevation.
The pole in my pic from earlier is fiberglass at 70' AGL. The equipment
on it (3' dish + 6 sectors) puts it at about 25% structural load, but
the maximum we'll accept for wind deflection. Basically in a 35mph wind
(which happens regularly) we'll be up. In a 75mph wind (which happens
once in a lifetime) that backhaul will go down.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Chris Fabien" <ch...@lakenetmi.com>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: 6/6/2017 6:45:04 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] what is the typical wind load of an 80' telephone
pole?
If you have any backhaul dishes planned for it, I think your question
is not going to be the max antennas it can handle without breaking, but
how much you can load it vs how much deflection in the signal will be
acceptable. That might be hard to calculate, it's a beam bending
problem with a tapered wood beam.
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Rory Conaway <r...@triadwireless.net>
wrote:
This pole is actually 80’ above ground. I misstated my question. I
meant what is the wind load capacity of the pole to determine how many
antennas I can put on it.
Rory
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Gray
Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 4:24 PM
To:af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] what is the typical wind load of an 80' telephone
pole?
What is the height of an installed 80' pole?
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 7:10 PM, <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm impressed you can 80' wooden pole in for $5500. Here it was
closer to $10,000. Just the pole itself was a few $k. Transport
from the yard to a worksite was $2500. It's over the length limit
for NYS roads, so we have to have escort vehicles and file a plan
with the DOT. Some pole contractors didn't even want to do it.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 5, 2017, at 6:35 PM, Eric Muehleisen <ericm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Funny you mention this. I just got off the phone with the power
company about the exact same thing. Around here anything higher than
65 ft is considered transmission line pole and gets expensive.
$5,500 for 80 ft.
$2,500 for 65 ft.
$1,000 for 40 ft.
that cost includes the pole and labor to plant it.
Also, you can't set a meter on the pole unless they retain ownership
or you lease the pole as part of the service. The cost to run lines
and/or transformers is on you as well. So plant your pole close to
the existing grid.
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Rory Conaway
<r...@triadwireless.net> wrote:
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