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WHAT A MESS THIS WAS!!!
- Thread starter TonyV225
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Yea that is a mess to say the least....That happened in Joplin Missouri 2 or 3 years ago when we had a thunderstorm come through the area that had winds clocked at 80 MPH + ,the tower didnt fall on any homes but a couple of cars were somewhat flattened...
That dont happen often ,but when it does it sure does make a mess.
It took the TV station over a year to get a tower back up
That dont happen often ,but when it does it sure does make a mess.
It took the TV station over a year to get a tower back up
it would be nice to get a couple of sections of that tower to bring home and use....if it wasnt totally twisted up
This is becoming a problem for the broadcast industry. Most of these larger towers are about 50 years old. Inspections at many sites have found corroded guy wire anchors. Most have been fitted with extra antennas to carry the hi definition signals. Not to mention renting out space to other services. In the last 10 years more of these 2000 foot towers have collapsed then at any other time in history. KDUH is another. Preventative maintenance could have saved the millions of dollars it will now cost to replace them.
I used to climb towers in my younger days. you couldn't pay me to go up a commercial tower nowadays. 
I used to climb towers in my younger days. you couldn't pay me to go up a commercial tower nowadays.
Isn't it amazing how fear of heights seems to develop with age? It's like all of the sudden one day we realized we could fall when it never seemed possible before this point.
Not fear of heights. Fear of the ill maintained towers.
I was on an 80 footer 2 months ago repairing the coax for a fellow in Huntsville.
I would rather climb your rusty damn home tower as a commercial tower.
I was on an 80 footer 2 months ago repairing the coax for a fellow in Huntsville.
I would rather climb your rusty damn home tower as a commercial tower.
I remember the time we lost a 225 foot AM tower. It was the main radiator of a three tower broadside array. It was also the one tower that was configured to operate as a single omnidirectional antenna in the event of an antenna problem as well as the support for the studio-transmitter link antennas.We got a call that we were off the air at one of our outlying regional stations. From a few miles away I could see two very wide spaced towers with nothing in the middle. The farmer that we leased the land from caught the bottom guy wire with the cab of his big John Deere tractor and when the guy slipped off the cab and snapped back it caused the tower to buckle at about the 50 foot level and fall. It came down across the transmitter building which was cinder block thank goodness or it would have really done some damage other than just the eaves and a small part of the roof.We were able to convert one of the other towers over to a single radiator and run omnidirectional until we got another tower installed.It may have just been a 225 footer but it was still $100,000 worth of damage.
Bet that made a racket.
Is that anything like a tree falling in the forrest and no one's around to hear it?