The guy wires on something like that are also going to be a whole lot heavier than what you'd find on a little tower or a grain elevator, and I imagine that affects how they fall too.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:58 AM Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > i let one go on a pulley on top of a grain elevator at the end of the day, > the rope tail came around to pulley and bullwhipped my eyeball. Immediately > blind, all i felt was mush, thought my eyeball was hanging out. Climbing > down was aweful, finally got the ground guys attention and asked him if i > had an eyeball, he didnt know what i was saying. got down and went into the > nearby store with the blood coming out of my eye asking for some ice, they > made me buy a whole bag of ice, dicks. Ended up I just splattered they > internals of my eye, took a few weeks for the blood to settle out of my eye > so i regained vision, painful, and now i have a square corner on my pupil > and it catches sometimes and feels like the eyeball tears in half. You get > to have fun times like that when youre stupid. > > But on this here tower, maybe its the angle, but it looks like that car in > the background is in the fallzone if the controlled fall didnt work > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:29 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> 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----- >> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] >> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 10:20 AM >> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> >> 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, [email protected] 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. >> > >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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