Installation Guide

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Be sure that the anchor points and base position are in a line when sighted from anchor to anchor.
This will insure that the forces on the guy wires are balanced properly, and will make final guy
wire adjustments simpler and will help a great deal during the actual raising of the tower. The
side anchors and tower base should also be at the same height. If either of these requirements is
not met, the guy wires will either tighten excessively or become excessively slack as the tower
is raised. If the guy wires tighten excessively the tower may buckle and collapse, causing
possible injury or even death and at the very least, damage to both the tower and the turbine.
Carefully read the section on raising the tower for further instructions on making the proper
adjustments in these situations.