REGUYING
To reguy a smokestack it is necessary to have these parts before the job is really called complete: Turn-buckles for the bottom ends of the guys and clips for both ends. Although you can guy a smokestack without these articles, it is best to have them. Without the aid of the turn-buckle to draw the slack out of the guy wires, a device like this can be used: Lash the guy wire with a sling, using two half-hitches so as to grip the wire. Tie a bow-line knot at the opposite end so as to enable you to attach the block and fall, placing the opposite block in the eye of the guy wire anchor, then by pulling on the fall line, this takes the slack from the wire, even with the turn-buckles. Sometime you will have to resort to this method in order to take up the loose slack.
Drawing Guy Wire Tight with Block and Falls
Drawing Guy Wire Tight with Block and Falls
When guying a stack the first thing to do is to place the spool that holds the wire between two boxes of equal size. Take your handy line and a small singleblock when going up to attach the guys; hook this single block to the eye of the band at the position where you are to work; have your helper tie the handy line about three feet down from the end of the guy wire, and then bend the wire double. You then have your helper do the pulling up of the guy wire. Should you do the pulling while sitting in the chair, you would soon notice the strain from it in the stomach. As you have nothing under the feet to press the strain there, it really falls to the stomach to receive all the hard work. Always leave some slack to the guy wire.
A stack must vibrate to a certain extent, therefore if the guy wires are drawn as tight as they possibly can be, the chances are the result would be a broken wire or an anchor giving way.
Helper Pulling Guy Wire Up to Stack Band
Helper Pulling Guy Wire Up to Stack Band
In using clips to fasten the wire at both ends, they should be a size larger than the guy wire, and when clips are not available, allow about two feet over. After passing guy wires through the eye of the band or the eye of the anchor, take a pieceof gas pipe of a size that will slip down over the guy wire some foot or a foot and a half, then twist the end of the guy wire with the gas pipe around the other part of wire that extends down. This is a wonderful way to fasten the wire to the stack, and will last as long as the stack will.
Turning Guy Wire with Steel Pipe
Turning Guy Wire with Steel Pipe