The Rohn Tower
Ventera offers the Rohn SSV line of 3 legged self-supporting towers in heights of 50, 70, 90, 110 and 130 feet including hinged feet for tilt down ease in installation and maintenance and top tube extension designed to aerodynamically minimize blade noise. The tower is shipped by truck broken down from Peoria, IL, and includes all hardware, assembly instructions and ground rods for each leg. Rohn towers are hot dipped galvanized for longest life. The hinged feet, top tube and mounting hardware are shipped by truck from the Ventera factory in Duluth. The rugged, good looking Rohn SSV towers have been a standard in the small wind industry for 30 years.
Hinged feet
The tower is hinged at the base and the hinged base plates that go over your anchor bolts are included. Each base plate is provided with a leveling arrangement to assure the tower is perfectly plumb. Users with a farm tractor can design a gin pole system for raising and lowering the tower and turbine for ground level service. Others will use a crane service to raise and lower the tower.
Raising the tower
No one wants unsightly guy wires in the yard to interrupt mowing, grazing, volleyball or gardening, and Ventera Energy offers a rugged, good looking three-legged, self-supporting tower to complement the Ventera VT10 wind turbine with a beauty and grace you’ll be proud to have on your homestead. It will remind you of the common windmill tower seen pumping water around the world, but you and your neighbors will also immediately recognize the classic Ventera style. Towers come galvanized except for the top tube which can be painted weather-resisting black or silver enamel to complement the beauty of the silver and black colors of the Ventera turbine.
To see detailed drawings of the towers and their required foundations, check out the generic tower and foundation prints here.