I suspect the current owner felt he was doing you a big favour by letting you
take the tower for free if you took it down.
What is it they say is “paved with good intentions?”
I talked to a former co-worker once about his GN. I mentioned, at the time,
most deals were, “If you take it down, it’s yours.” He wasn’t impressed,
thinking there was more value in the tower than that.
I think in this case, unless you’re also doing it as a favour (and all the
pay-it-forward power to you), the tower’s value relative to the value of
removal means he’s in your debt...
73, kelly, ve4xt
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> On May 5, 2019, at 19:54, Wilson Lamb <infomet@embarqmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can you get a rope over a roof, tree limb, to help lower.
> Is it guyed, bracketed? If so, climbing up to put on the lowering line
> should be OK.
> At 40', you'd want four guys for manhandling.
> You can stand in a pickup, to get hold of it higher?
> If you cut one leg at ground level, it will fold nicely on the other two.
> I get 25G for 25-40 bucks/section around here, depending on condition, so
> it's not worth renting anything, as stated.
> Find a local with experience to help/advise and use some judgement.
> Just a little work will save it in usable form.
> Cut it off above the splits and that's your base section.
> Yes, friends and I have done all this, several times! Several of our FD
> towers are 30' of 25G, often manhandled and sometimes tractor assisted.
> Let us know what happens.
> Wilson
> W4BOH
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