Gotta love you tube! I liked how this one went down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRGkofsxWg4 -RickG
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:01 PM, jp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > /* > Jason Philbrook | Midcoast Internet Solutions - Wireless and DSL > KB1IOJ | Broadband Internet Access, Dialup, and Hosting > http://f64.nu/ | for Midcoast Maine http://www.midcoast.com/ > */ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
