I don’t have anything that will clamp that small but I have seen unistrut hung off of rod clamps by electricians.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 7, 2020, at 6:05 AM, David Coudron <david.coud...@advantenon.com> > wrote: > > > Not a bad idea, we hadn’t thought of that one. The silo owners might be > nervous about that, but it shouldn’t put any noticeable metal fatigue on the > bands due to welding. We’ll ask about that. You don’t have any tower > mounts that clamp down to ¾” in diameter do you? Clamping around it and > welding at the same time would really give it some strength. > > We have worked on one silo in the past that used Ken’s suggestion of the Rohn > clamped to it. That would definitely work, we were just hoping for > something that would be quicker to implement. > > As always, we appreciate the ideas, > > David Coudron > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown > Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 6:49 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mounting to Cement Stave Silos > > Weld to the bands? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 7, 2020, at 3:28 AM, David Coudron <david.coud...@advantenon.com> > wrote: > > > Thanks Colin, > > I think the diameter of the silo will probably rule these out. It looks > like it would be a great option for silos with smaller diameters, but the > ones we are working with are 30-40 ft in diameter. The banding might be an > option, but it will be tough to get around the top of the silo with a large > diameter without a boom truck. We may have to bring in a boom truck, but > are planning to do our work from the ladder and attach our equipment close to > the ladder for serviceability. > > Regards, > > David Coudron > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Colin Stanners > Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 10:19 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mounting to Cement Stave Silos > > Oh, here there are some. Banding and tension tool: > https://www.sitepro1.com/store/cart.php?m=product_list&c=29 > > Clamps that work with the banding, although these are a smaller model that > may be more for cable than pipes: > https://www.sitepro1.com/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=75 > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, 10:05 PM Colin Stanners <cstann...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the diameter? If not too big, you may find some of the chimney mounts > here useful: https://www.sitepro1.com/store/cart.php?m=product_list&c=776 > > It may be easier to put your own metal band setup, there must be some > specific blocks that you can use to both tension them and create a solid > mounting point. > > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, 9:59 PM David Coudron <david.coud...@advantenon.com> > wrote: > We have a new project in which we will be using cement stave solid for a > couple of tower locations. They aren’t ideal for our application, but they > are the only tall structures in the area we need two towers and the project > has to be complete by the end of the year, so we are not going to have time > to build any kind of alternate structure. The silos have a round metal band > that runs horizontally around each level of the cement staves. We plan to > attached a pole vertically to several of those bands so that we can mount our > equipment on. Each pole will be attached to 3-4 of the bands. We are > wondering if anyone has done that in the past and what they have used. Our > go to bracket for towers is the M-TOW-A from Chuck, but they aren’t the right > application for this. Chuck, I don’t know if you have something else that > would work better, or has anyone seem a bracket/clamp that works well for > this application? We are thinking a clam type clamp that clamps to the > horizontal metal band (it is tough to get a bracket between the metal band > and the cement stave) and will clamp to a vertical pole would be a winner, > but haven’t seen anything like this. Anyone done this in the past? > > Regards, > > David Coudron > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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