How to take a radio tower down
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@rdarlington no good part, you have no idea what you can do with those dish and a bag of small mirrors death ray!
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@rdarlington you coulve saves that radio tower and dishes. hook it up to your ham radio in your back yard or something. (no joke seriously ive seen bigger)
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It's a shame, second hand towers are hard to come by, but considering the work involved I certainly can't blame the guy for simply dropping the tower and selling the scrap, particularly if it was a cumbersome steel tower. Still, sad to see a good tower fall, but you can't fault him for doing it.
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Man what a waste of a nice tower. :[ A lot of hams would love to have some tower like that.
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Nice job! Simple, direct, safe and easy. Good on all fronts. :)
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Me thinks you broken it...lol
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Bummer ... what a waste !!
I'm sure somebody could have used that.
slippery396 2 years ago 8
I took the demolition job to make money and scavenge any parts I might need. There weren't any so I sold it all as scrap and made a killing. I'm sure somebody somewhere would have preferred I gave this stuff to them, just as I prefer Bill Gates would give me a few million bucks. We can't always get our way!
rdarlington 2 years ago
I disagree. Selling large items that weigh a few hundred pounds on eBay is extremely time consuming when you factor in dealing with freight companies. The dishes were completely worthless to me as a ham operator but were easy cash from the scrap dealer. I not only was paid top dollar to remove the tower and related items, I was paid top dollar for the scrap. I'm sorry you feel I slighted you or the ham community somehow, but that's simply not my problem. Find your own tower and dishes!
rdarlington 3 years ago
The dish feeds are worth more than tower but all components could have been sold on eBay for more than scrap value, that's for sure...
Rafmanne 3 years ago
@Rafmanne I'm sorry, but I value my free time. Next one I take down I'll be sure to contact you so you can fly out at your own expense and list the components for me. I'll cut you in for 5%.
rdarlington 11 months ago
We got several hundred dollars in scrap aluminum and copper (elliptical waveguide, mostly). The tower was cut up and also sold as scrap. All in all, we made out like a bandit. We went out prepared to take down an aluminum tower and found a VERY heavy steel tower on site. There was no safe way to use our flimsy jin pole so over it went.
rdarlington 3 years ago