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Joined: 07/10/2005
Location: AustraliaPosts: 34
| Posted: 09:37am 20 Oct 2005 |
Hiya Bruce, just been looking at yer photo's, some nice gear there, wish I had lathes etc.
Trigonometry?
I'm, having trouble visualising your problem, but I'm thinking it's something like this?:
Sorry if I'm way off!
Simo.
Edit: eep!, just had a thought, is it 4 wire or 3 wire?
If its 3 wire, is the high side a single axis, so the other two are downhill? hmmm tricky.
I'm gonna have to blow the dust off my old high-school math books!
I can visualise this as a solid form, as a cone with it's base cut at an angle.
Similarly, if a guy wire were spun 360deg around the mast, maintaining its angle with respect to the mast, and you traced its path on the ground, you would have an elipse drawn on the ground,
the minor axis of the elipse would be 60feet. The major axis = ?(depends on angle of ground)
Then the tie down points could be found by faning out at 120deg angles. (or 90 deg for 4 wire)
Am I completely off the track?