[TowerTalk] cutting galvanized tower legs - thanks

[Roger (K8RI)]

On 8/1/2010 12:52 PM, Gary Slagel wrote:
> Thanks for all the input.  I think the reciprocating saw sounds good to me... seems like the worst that can happen is a cut on a finger... rather then a finger cut off ... shard in the eye... etc, etc.   I've got a brother-in-law who has a saw although I might use it as an excuse to buy a new tool.
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Still the at the minimum ware safety glasses "with side shields" and 
good leather, or work gloves, not cloth, I've seen blades break and 
pieces fly even from a saws-all and the edges of the cut metal are 
usually very sharp.

73

Roger (K8RI)
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> btw - not real sure why the tower folded.  It had a kt34a mounted about 2' above the peak.  The tower was pretty old... I bought it a couple years ago and I'm sure it was at least 15 years old then.  And, this was a freakish storm for around here.  The paper was talking 60 to 70mph but most people thought it was more then that.  It really seemed like there was kind of a micro-burst of wind that hit some areas that had to be way more then 70mph.  I say that cuz there were little patches that seem to get blasted.... groups of a dozen trees down in the middle of a whole bunch of other trees that had no problems.  Here, as soon as the initial blast hit I suspected I might have tower trouble... just tooo much wind to think it could make it. 
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> Thanks again for the good advice.
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> Gary Slagel/N0SXX
> Hot Springs, SD
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