[TowerTalk] Fw: [WISPA] tower demolition video

[Marlon K. Schafer]

Here's one way to take down an old tower :-).
marlon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jp" <jp at saucer.midcoast.com>
To: <wireless at wispa.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:01 PM
Subject: [WISPA] tower demolition video


> We had an old 95' rohn25 tower (probably 100' with 5' in the ground)
> that is 50+ years old and we took it down. It came with the site when I
> bought it ten years ago. It was quickly reguyed early in my ownership
> and had served us well. The old (unused) guys were crusty rusty and
> brittle, so I figured the tower wasn't far behind. We'd built a
> replacement tower to better serve our needs, and didn't want the old
> tower to come down in an inevitable winter/icy storm. We picked a calm
> day so wind was not an issue.
>
> We had two people in the woods pulling it where we wanted it to go with
> ropes at the 30 and 60' points. We removed the bottom two of three guys,
> and cut the top one to make it fall.
>
> I started with thermite (and magnesium fuse) as I didn't want to be near
> the guy point when it let go, but I ended up needing to cut through a
> turnbuckle with a power tool. The thermite destroyed the terracotta
> flower pot it was in and wasn't properly directed onto the anchor.
>
> Just as well. It came down where we wanted it perfectly with no damage
> to other stuff.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-tXQULhaM0
>
>
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