Tilting Telescoping Wind Turbine Tower Core Component, How High Does It Go?

I was not clear in the video; the pivot will be about 6ft off the ground. From the pivot to the ground will be a seperate frame, I will need to fabricate this.

[@markusfalk9459]

Take a word from someone who have already have one wind power generator up. When the storm winds are knocking on your door - it is not bad at all to have the piece of mind knowing that you have additional support. So, please use guy wires. I do not recommend doing this without. The amount of force the wind can push on the top versus the strength running through the steel construction is quite strong. I had guy wires on my 8 metre tower, which was a wooden, reinforced triangular frame with a big, broad base - and the wind still almost pulled one of the guy wires out of the ground.

[@PKMartin]

For something non-retractable that sounds like excellent advice - but if it's a minute's work to crank the tower down to a few feet above ground level, reducing both the wind and the leverage, I'd think it's fine

[@LandtoHouse]

Wow. You need a blinking light on that thing to warn airplanes.

[@kevincrawford2027]

When picking a location for your tower make sure you have room for some guy wires. That way if needed you won't need to relocate. I think you will be surprised how much force there is on the windmill. I am saying this from experience with my telescopic tower. Looking forward to the install.

[@JoeMalovich]

I'm going to need some more details! What type of telescoping assembly? How Tall? What diameter turbine?

[@kevincrawford2027]

@@JoeMalovich Mine is gone now I sold it when the wind mill failed from a lightning strike. Windmill was supposed to be 500 watts (maybe in a hurricane) with 5 foot blade. Mine was home built. 6 inch well casing 26 feet for the first section in the ground 6 feet. Second section 3 inch schedule 40 pipe 15 feet with 3 feet left in the first section. Same with 3rd section with 2 inch schedule 40. Each section was guyed to screw in anchors like power poles use. Hand winch to raise up and down. 40+ feet to windmill mount. 3 locking bolts for each section tightened as it was raised. Worked well. Hope this is a good enough description I not good at splaining things.

[@vampiremuffinman7183]

You should run guy wires. You can rig them so you can detach them easily so that you can pull down the tower for service. Think of the math... 10lbs against 25' of lever. Now the wind's going perpendicular to that and back, and then 180°... It won't take much wind to put 10lbs against the top of that tower and it will tear up any mounting that's focused only on the base.

[@NorthShoreProductions]

I am excited to see this project come to life.

[@oby-1607]

What a great idea. Even better with some guy wires (3) equally spaced to handle wind load. Hate to see that come down on anything or you.

[@richardperritt]

Pardon me for stating this but I think your estimations for the base of the tower are less than ideal. You may wish to reach out to your local amateur radio community as they would have experience and knowledge with tower structures. Keep in mind that you will have additional loading because your use case is different than just an antenna. Thanks for the content and I look forward to seeing how this and your waterworks evolve.

[@JoeMalovich]

This is not an antenna tower though, it's a construction site light tower, it's built heavier and for more loading with the big flood lights. I will run calculations, and do some research before though.

[@6969smurfy]

40' tower, should go with 1 yard of Crete.

[@stevendegonia]

Consider if you will, mount the wind blue on a verticle axis if possible and use an attic vent, The round ones that everbody hate for making noise in the attic, but work darned good, if you can mount the center axel to the genset in a safe manner and test that? I know they are omnidirectional for 365* winds and I believe it would surprise you on the rotational mass. Just a thought i had rolling around in my head for a few years now. Also, the base should be at the minimum 36"X36" and 5' deep with 3 guide wires to the first section of pole for stability. The third guide wire can be attached with an appropiate heavy duty turnbuckle for quick attach and tensioning purposes. What you think, possible, plausible, or plain bunk?

[@JoeMalovich]

A roof vent is too small to catch enough wind. You are taking about a VAWT. I really don't think I need guy wires.

[@diabsiniman]

you could also use that as a flag pole when you dont have any turbines for it (since you are american... and you guys seem to be very much into your flag poles)

[@kameljoe21]

Most light towers are rated at 50mph or higher. Keep in mind that this tower is rated with its stabilizers and those stabilizer are not fixed. If said tower if fixed its likely that the wind speed rating will exceed 75 mph with ease. When things are rated they are rated for double or 1.5 times for safety reason. They wont sell a light tower rated at 65 mph and if the wind hits 66 it falls over. The rating is likely able to withstand speeds of 80 mph or more. So I doubt that you will need guy wires. I have also been looking for a couple of these to do the same thing. Keep in mind those metal street light post have no guy wires and they are super tall.

[@JoeMalovich]

Everybody was super pessimistic. I'd start with a half inch plate 18" square for the base, and a tall stout pyramidal structure up to the pivot at about 6'. The concrete pier it would be mounted on would be 30" dia x 6' deep reinforced concrete with 3/4 galv j-bolts

[@JoeMalovich]

There is a guy near me that installs septic grinder pumps. He has a 30" auger that will go down 6' on his skid steer.

[@kameljoe21]

@@JoeMalovich Yeah that should do it just fine. The one thing about the tower is you can adjust the height. Even if you know a big storm is coming you can lower it down a section. If I find one and do one. I am just going to dig down about 6 feet and then do a 2 yard pour and plate it. Simple and a large enough block that its likely the tower will bend before the block moves. Street light post that are 40 feet tall I think are like 3 foot round and about 8 feet or so deep. If the tower works out good then you can always keep your eye open for more and install them where ever you want. I would also keep in mind for a junction box type thing and some pipe laid out somewhere so that you can run your wires and stuff. Either way will be a good project for you. Power, we all need a lot of it. Wind is a good source.

[@atomizer2665]

@@kameljoe21 You cant lower it down by one section, the parasitic ropes work to raise all the sections at the same time :)

[@kameljoe21]

@@atomizer2665 Yes, I am aware of that. These towers are all tensioned by the cable/rope so one can lower it down "by a section" as long as you guess how much that section is. There are some types of towers that move up section at a time as well.

[@keepingit_real5005]

Good idea, easy access.

[@ChatterontheWire]

so the aluminum flag pole I just bought was $100 for 25', and it would in no way hold this, so for $200, not a bad find at all, if it holds up!

[@sgewirtz1]

Mazal tov on the baby!

[@KasperLidegaard]

Ohh plz use feet, but put conversion in text as overlay

[@KasperLidegaard]

25 foot.... Let's all exit and convert that...

[@JoeMalovich]

7.6m, optional extension to 11.2m

[@KasperLidegaard]

@@JoeMalovich thx but I already did that :) Remember that the rest of the world uses SI units 😉