One of My design goals is a tower that is ridged enough to support its own weight and 200
pounds of mill during raising and lowering using  guys just as safeties.
And not like pipe towers that are 100% guy wire dependent and are at there weakest during rasing and lowering.

I have no doubts that this design will meet that goal I want to find out what its upper limits
are. Now I wont be putting any thing  near that on it but it would be nice to know. Then I can start on wind loading.

My thinking is the stronger and more ridged a structure you start with for a guyed tower.
The closer you can set the guys to the tower base even to the point were it take up just a little
 more room than a free standing tower.   The guys will handle the bulk of the wind thrust load.
And a ridged tower makes thing so much easier for raising and lowering.    

Rob

And I am stubborn to : )

It my be hard to believe. In the same time or less than it takes to build a wind generator
You can have a nice tower to put it on. This design is a lot easier to build than a generator.

Rhud
I will check them out thanks

Monte

I was thinking  about this but could not come with a handy to  way measure the amount of
water used I had the hydraulics laying around just needed a hand pump.

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