3 or 4 sided steel towers with wide base

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ericvr

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Joined: 24/11/2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 37
Posted: 02:54am 13 Jan 2008      

Hi,
We are looking for a steel tower of between 10 and 15 meters tall, preferably one of the types that does not need guy wires and that has a wide base so it is self supporting, the base would be about 3 or 4 meters wide and the base is usually mounted in three or four concrete footings.
But one with guy wires would be acceptable also, like one of the ones the railways use for their antennas, they come in sections.
We are located in Melbourne but the final location is in Dereel near Ballarat.
The reason is that there are many trees around and we want to go up over the top of them to catch the wind.

I can be contacted via email on eric_vanrhijn@hotmail.com

Thanks

Ericvr
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dwyer
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Joined: 19/09/2005
Location: Australia
Posts: 575
Posted: 06:24am 13 Jan 2008      

hi
Have you ever throught about using tapper power pole that use lighting on motor freeway ??

Dwyer the bushman
ericvr

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Joined: 24/11/2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 37
Posted: 12:08pm 13 Jan 2008      

Yes, but I think that they may not be strong enough to support the 1 KW wind generator. Also they may need a much larger base than a 3 or 4 sided tower, there is also the means of securing them to the concrete base.
there is also the erection of the pole whereas with a three or four sided tower you can put it up piece by piece and you can put up a working platform to perform maintenance on the generating head.

Thanks and I will look into this a bit further and let everyone know which way we will proceed.


Regards

Ericvr
limited greenie
AMUN-RA

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Joined: 10/03/2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 144
Posted: 10:11pm 14 Jan 2008      

ericvr if you drive from melb to ballarat the first melton gisbon turnoff sign about 1klm back there is a windmill tower in the paddock on the left hand side with a broken mill maybe worth a look as it will probably never be repaired wont take much to find the owner and ask????????? worth a try.
Mick
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ericvr

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Joined: 24/11/2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 37
Posted: 10:25pm 14 Jan 2008      

Hi Mick,

Thanks for that, I will let my brother in law know and he can take it from there .

Regards

Eric
limited greenie