I'm not sure they were traditional guy wires. Each of those joints in
the guy line was an insulator, so each section of guy was only several
feet long. And I wouldn't be surprised if it they were more like a
ceramic, or some rigid connector between insulators. Given there were
only 2 sets of guys on a 700' tower. They must have been fairly large
in diameter, that's a lot of weight that would have to snap around.
On 7/19/2019 10:29 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I'm surprised the guy wires just go limp rather than whipping around
dangerously, give how much tension they must have been under.
Even when we just snap a 300 ft rope it makes that scary bullwhip sound
coming down, like if you were standing in the wrong spot it would take your
head off.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 10:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tower Demolition
Trying to single step through it. No doubt the lower guy on the left goes
slack first. Not sure after that.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Burke
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 9:12 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tower Demolition
I thought it looked like they just cut the guys on the left side, and the
one's on the right just pulled it that direction.
On 7/19/2019 10:07 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
You know they were somehow controlling the direction of the fall, but
it appears all guy wires were cut at the same time.
-----Original Message----- From: Nate Burke
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 9:03 AM
To: Animal Farm
Subject: [AFMUG] Tower Demolition
How do you tear down a 700' Tower? Cut the Guy Wires.
https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/wbbm-newsradios-transmitter-site-mo
ves-bloomingdale
There were pretty heavy thunderstorms yesterday morning. I'm
surprised they brought it down in the middle of those.
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