I think you are worrying too much!
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> On Dec 16, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Here in Denver, just digging and pouring a basement for a house requires a
> city inspection and write off before you can pour the concrete and then
> again afterward. The suburbs around Denver almost all require building
> permits before you can put up any kind of a tower and most restrict it to
> certain heights, too. A tower as large as Alan is talking about he might
> get, probably wouldn't be allowed even in Denver county and they used to
> never require a building permit. Now I believe the tower has to fall within
> your property if the thing falls down. Of course, they don't know that
> towers just don't falls straight over; it is wind torque that twists a tower
> like a cork screw and it collapses in on itself. I'll tell you one thing,
> if I was putting up something of that nature, I'd want a person from the
> company there even if it wasn't required by the company. The quality of the
> soil can make a big difference with a tower that heavy and with big antennas
> on it. Tower installation at any level is an art and rotating towers and
> hydraulic up and down poles or frame towers are nothing to mess around with.
> Soil content to a certain depth, geographical requirements, studies of
> weather patterns, and a lot more are required for any tower installation
> like Alan is talking about. You best know something about concrete,
> digging, soil shifting, root growth from any nearby trees, tree heights, and
> what long boom antennas do in the winds that are possible in your
> geographical location before you even do anything. With the schnook warm
> high winds Denver gets off the mountain during most of January and February,
> it can be scarey. I just had a little 38 foot tower once with a 4 element
> 20 meter beam on a 26 foot boom and in a 110 MPH wind during the middle of
> the day blew up and lasted for hours , it rotated the antenna 90 degrees.
> My friend down the street had a 130 foot Rohn 25G tower with a 6 element
> tribander at 132 feet and a 2 element 40 at 136 feet with a seamless mast
> and in that same wind storm, one of his top guys cables at 130 feet snapped
> off and the tower, he said, was leaning, in the wind I might add, from the
> 60 foot level up to the top, over about 8 feet at the top. It never fell.
> He knew how to put up towers and it was guyed in 4 points up the tower. How
> he didn't lose the whole thing in that wind was a miracle to me. When the
> wind died, he had to climb all 130 feet and hook that top guy cable back up
> again. I just had to climb 38 feet, loosen the bolts on the boom, rotate
> the antenna by hand back in place, tighten up the boom again, and I was done
> in 5 minutes. I'd never own a fixed tower with a big bunch of antennas on
> it again, that is, I'd want one that automatically lower in wind and was
> certified installed correctly by the company. Law sues with stuff like that
> can get harry.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
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