Radio Tower Cut Down!

[StoneOak]

Is that blackhawk tower or higgins tower service doing the work? somewhere my brothers have really awesome video of the tower going down

[rwundrock]

@StoneOak I believe it was Blackhawk tower.

[lifedanraymond]

Not sure I'm cozy with a "how to demo a radio tower with a power saw" video out there. (It's probably real obvious anyway?) Just to see how easy it is though... ugh.

[handsupbud]

Was the guy yelling black? He acted black.

[bunker2k1]

man this almost bought a tear to my eyes ,seeing a good tower just fall into a heep of junk , hams all over the world will hang there head wishing they could have that tower in there yard. but good work guys remember always be safe

[GAVNO1]

It wasn't really that "good" a tower. It was a composite of two older towers that had been disassembled in other locations. If it hadn't been taken down like this, it would have needed to be replaced soon anyway.

[sterwing]

Those guys were pumped! I bet that guy dreamt of felling towers as a kid and getting an adrenaline high off of it.

[JumpCheckProductions]

LOL bet he went home and jerked off to it.

[redstone31]

someone was WAAAY too excited when it started going down! sheesh....

[ahanger]

no for one thing he spends lots of days building the damn things and rarely ever do you get to take one down...and two...if he cut the guy and it didn't fall...then there's a big problem....kind of like building demo guys having to go back in a half blown up building to place more dynomite:(

[EFFINHILMER]

Does anybody know about the huge tower in lyndsay, nebraska,i drove by it a couple weeks ago and it looked abandon, and all i now about it was that it used to be called the big eight tower a while ago and i was wondering if anybody new anything about it ,plz reply to mi comment if you now anything about it, anything!

[Peonygreenleaf]

In tower removal the guy on the tower was breaking loose bolts so the tower will "fold" instead of fall flat over. Also they are supposed to take EVERYTHING off the tower (Antennas, dishes, lights, coaxial cables) to reduce projectile injury.. Usually a crcew will "Unstack" a guyed tower and remove the guy wires one by one but in this case either the radio station didnt have the money for that kind of removal or the tower was in really bad shape and was unsafe.

[rwundrock]

It was an old (1967) tower owned by the state of Wisconsin. The old dishes, etc. were inconsequential.

[MrPenguinmaster3000]

@rwundrock what did you do with the dishes

[dggfhdfghdf]

HEY can someone ell me what the guy on the towers doin??

[zep4life]

cool!

[maroguy]

I use to climb the look out tower next to it.

[THEBossSound]

It is amazing how environmentalists got away with this. One, the stations has been there long before the park was. TWO the power ground at that point is low. Most of the power goes OUT. So the state spent about $500,000 because the tower was too close to ski trails (which are used how much these days???) Help me understand how much financial sense that makes.

[rwundrock]

The project cost severeal times the $500k you quoted.

We laughed when the DNR approached us asking that we "move" the tower. We just said "show us the money!"

[bigchevy80]

So did the DNR pay for all that? Seems that should be the case since they were the ones who wanted it moved.

[maroguy]

Is that the tower from Lapham Peak????

[rwundrock]

Yes it was in the park. The DNR wanted it moved because it was too close to ski trails.