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A guy-wire, guy-line, guy-rope, down guy, or stay, also called simply a guy, is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a freestanding structure. They are used commonly for ship masts , radio masts , wind turbines , utility poles , and tents .
Minnkota power cooperative, near Langdon, North Dakota, US September 25, 1990: guyed steel triangular tower 107 Underground corrosion of guy wire steel and anchor shaft Two tower service personnel were seriously injured RÚV long wave radio mast, Vatnsendahæð, Reykjavik, Iceland February 3, 1991: Guyed steel lattice mast 150 Storm
The power lines are attached to the pole by horizontal strain insulators, either placed on crossarms (which are either doubled, tripled, or replaced with a steel crossarm, to provide more resistance to the tension forces) or attached directly to the pole itself. Dead-end and other poles that support lateral loads have guy-wires to
The largest wildfire in Texas history was caused by a power line after a pole that “appeared to be decayed at the base” fell into a grassy area, a Texas A&M Forest Service investigator ...
A sailboat's mast is supported by shrouds and stays - nautical equivalents of guy wires The Sendeturm Jauerling is a partially guyed 141 meter tower built in 1958, consisting of a 35-metre-high free-standing steel framework tower, which carries a 106 meter guyed steel tube mast on the top
In the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the dry grass below, there was a reason the flames erupted all at once in long, neat ...