help needed

[Ed B Richards]

You don't say what tower you have. If it is a Rohn 25 or so, 30' is
nothing. I have put them up to 150'. If you put the bottom 5' in concrete
they are good to 50' self supporting. As a guyed tower, one set of guys
at the 25' level is sufficient. As to repairs, I strongly suggest you
straighten the legs and assemble it as originally intended. If the leg is
bent in, try a car jack with a 2X4 across the other 2 legs. If bent out,
put a long pipe over it and bend it back. Your idea would work for such a
short tower but not the best way. Good luck.

Ed Richards

On Thu, 24 May 2001 20:03:57 -0600 rayfri <rayfri at NETWORLD.COM> writes:
> This is more of an antenna question than a rig question.
> Wondering if anyone has any suggestions for joining tower sections
> back
> together.
> I have three sections of tower that I bought and want to
> reassemble,
> but the legs are JUST enough misaligned that they wont quite go
> back
> together.  I am thinking of buying some short lengths of steel pipe
> with
> an
> inside diameter that would slip over the outside of the tower legs
> and
> maybe
> drilling holes through the short lengths so that bolts could go
> through
> them and
> on through the holes in the legs of the tower.
> Question is....  advisable or not from a safety standpoint?  Total
> tower
> height
> would be about 30 feet and would be guyed and also fastened to the
> side
> of
> the garage.  Or would there be enough wiggle room between the
> inside
> diameter
> of the joining sections and the tower legs that it would be too weak
> at
> those
> points?
>
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