I saw it too. Most towers fold up like that when they fall. We cut a
100 foot unit down by cutting one of the guy points and it went over like a
falling tree.
Jim
At 03:21 PM 6/14/98 -0400, M.G. Brafford wrote:
>
>TowerTalk,
> I saw on the news this morning that a tornado felled a broadcast tower
>in Oka yesterday. A video of the failure shows the tower appear to buckle
>in the middle and collapse in a fairly small area. Did anyone else see the
>news cast? It was on CBS Sunday morning.
>
>73, Mick W4YV
>
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