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tonyski
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Greetings all,
I am using a wire cable to suspend some Christmas decorations across my driveway. Total span is about 30 ft.
One end attaches to the exterior brick wall of my house. the other end goes through a pulley that is suspended from a huge oak tree and then down to a come-along(hand winch, cable puller) attached to the base of the tree. The weight of the decorations is about 40-50 lbs which are evenly distributed along the middle eight feet of the 30 ft span.
I am concerned about the load on the anchor point on the brick wall. Am I correct in my assumption that if I used a piece of angle Iron and anchored it at two points and then attached the cable to the angle iron, the load on each anchor point would be half of the total?
Thanks in advance,
Tony
I am using a wire cable to suspend some Christmas decorations across my driveway. Total span is about 30 ft.
One end attaches to the exterior brick wall of my house. the other end goes through a pulley that is suspended from a huge oak tree and then down to a come-along(hand winch, cable puller) attached to the base of the tree. The weight of the decorations is about 40-50 lbs which are evenly distributed along the middle eight feet of the 30 ft span.
I am concerned about the load on the anchor point on the brick wall. Am I correct in my assumption that if I used a piece of angle Iron and anchored it at two points and then attached the cable to the angle iron, the load on each anchor point would be half of the total?
Thanks in advance,
Tony