It's a rule on TH-cam that any video depicting something being destroyed, no matter how rotten, dilapidated, or dangerous, will have a comments section full of people whining about how it should have been sold/given to them.
Have seen one of these come down unintentionally during a storm, extremely high winds during severe storm no damage done except to tower itself. Was suspected a small tornado.
Same. I clicked on the video to see if anyone was making the correction, but found nothing but your comment. I was also thinking that at least a feww hundred people out of 1,888,464 would have called it out by now. "Guy-wires" Who would have thunk it?
Guy wires are used to keep the tower straight vertical and to give it structural support. If you notice the tower is very thin and towers like these are not designed to be able to stand up straight without help. Guy wires pull down on the tower at specific locations to keep equal downward pressure across all sections of the tower. This makes it very, very strong and able to hold antennas and climbers and stand against strong winds.
Very funny. However, a 200' tower wouldn't reliably reach a range much further than 35-50 miles. The station likely replaced this tower with a much taller one to reach a larger audience.
For the people complaining about how much of a waste this was and how somebody could have come in and taken it down properly, by the time you paid for enough liability insurance to make the property owner's lawyer happy and spent the time and energy needed to take this down properly, you would more than likely have more invested in this old tower before you even got it to your house than it would have cost to buy the tower sections brand new.
+bayouratt283 someone with some sense, thank you!! it's impossible to tell in the video the condition of this old tower, it's unlikely it was worth saving, by the comment he made about just a small amount of damage to the building , they may have planned on replacing it anyway
That's not true for a tower of this height. That tower cost $4k new. Removal by a bonded contractor would be about half of that. So this was indeed the wasteful option.
Cutting the cables one at a time presents the problem of loading the remaining cables beyond their strength limits. The reason this matters is they may break, and a break anywhere except right at the bottom will send the cable ends whipping around. Anybody who has ever seen a cable whip doesn't want to be within range. Nobody was hurt, this time.
Let me guess. Your the national tower destruction OSHA inspector and you have spent countless hours overseeing towers falling in all kinds of conditions. Or do you sit at a desk and do math. Stick to calculators and protractors. Let the county people actually do the things.
@T.J. Kong That makes clear sense. We did one a long time ago where I cut the whole guy anchor releasing all guy wires at once. It was a 225' Larger Guy Tower and it dropped like a tree. What is the difference between cutting one guy wire at a time vs. all / the whole anchor? Just curious I have one to drop soon.
1972 while stationed on Okinawia in the Army Signal Corps, we had to take down a few dozen towers left over from the Korean War and because Vietnam was slowing down many of those towers. Most were Grangers and the all had a "ujoint" base so we had only one side we could cut. But we cut the guys starting on the lower guy and the head guy last so the towers fell in a straight line and not all buckled up and it made stacking the sections easier as we cut them. Yeah, getting paid to do cool stuff was well worth the 3 years I put in!!
This is the old KPAY tower system in Chico California. KHSL-AM was on 1290 using this two tower array and then they moved 1290 to the KPAY-AM 1060 array. 1060 went dark and 1290 was moved to the 1060 towers. Basically this is located at Bruce Road and Remington in Chico California...or rather was located.
I did tower work 36D20 in the Army and we deactivated a lot of towers in the old Granger line on Okinawa, not Ron25s. We cut the guys from the inside out to the head guy and the towers always fell in a nice straight line but they were built a bit sturdier than a -25. But still a good drop.
Watching the guy try to turn those old corroded turnbuckles without tools and without gloves convinced me the crew were in over their heads. Very lucky no one was hurt.
+Tyler D. what you would use wire cutters? I'd go with the bolties that's thick cable not wire. The guys being in over their heads because he's using his hands. I wouldn't say nor support that argument.
It did come on to me as a bit strange, like some people were passing by, saying to eachother: I know what we should do today, let's bring down the first radio tower we see!
They know where cable goes when cut, and if you are outside the possible whip zone it simply CANNOT reach the worker. If you are inside the whip zone you're incompetent. They weren't.
No engineer on earth can bring down a tower by cutting the guys and not have it be destroyed. If someone wants to save an erect tower, it's dismantled by a climbing crew and lowered by crane or gin pole. Cutting a guy is done when the tower needs to be brought down cheaply and quickly.
There was a radio station in Florence, SC that had their tower mysteriously taken down by this method in wee hours of the morning one night. They never did find out who did it. The station was in financial trouble and the suspicion was that the owner did it or had somebody do it to collect on the insurance. It couldn't ever be proven, though. This was before everybody and his brother and kid sister had cameras set up everywhere.
@@SerenityMae11 Uh, I was born and raised in "that part pf the world" and still live here. Your prejudice and intolerance are showing. You might want to tuck that back in.
im not sure what prompted me to want to look up falling towers. im fascinated by tall radio towers and i just got the idea of wanting to see one fall just because they're so interesting, a feat of human engineering, they're so hypnotically tall. :D every time i see one of these tall radio towers on the road, i stare at it as we're driving past.
If your interested in radio towers and TV towers you definitely need to watch the movie fall. Two girls climb a abandoned TV tower that is 2000 feet tall called the b67 TV tower and the ladder falls so they get styck up there
I'd like to see some safety glasses. Otherwise only wondering why it is being taken down? Was it out of spec? No mobile phone company wanted to rent it? Is everything on fiber now?
Here's where the name comes from... A guy (probably from Dutch gei, "brail") is a line (rope) attached to and intended to control the end of a spar on a sailboat.
Many years ago worker did this to an old WSLG AM radio tower. They cleared everything from the projected path. The old transmitter building, the workers pickup truck and the highway were the only things in the opposite direction. They cut the support wires and managed to hit all three. 😢
One could have sold the sections for a minimum of $50.00 each. The guy wiring is virtually scrap, since it was used. eBay values could have exceeded $75.00 per section. Now it's worth what $20/ton?
Steve Weiss It's probably already been stolen. The duggies need copper in the ground to steal so they can buy meth and coke. Some broadcast engineers won't listen, but that's what's wrong with AM Stations with a series feed tower, no ground radials and they are just now understanding how the illegal drug world works.
Steve Weiss looks like an FM site to me, with the evenly spaced antennas at the top (which focus the station's signal at the horizon). A tower can be FM and AM at the same time, but AM towers have an insulator at the base. Most AM stations have more than one tower - as many as twelve!
My only question is this.....how the heck did y’all think you could help “guide it down” w a rope tied to the top and a 175-200 pound man on the other end? That’s physically impossible
Absolutely not professionals. I cringed through the whole thing. They mostly didn't have a clue nor did they have a safety culture. If they continue, their lack of knowledge, proper equipment and safe procedures will catch up to them in a very tragic and horrible way.
When toppling an overhead structure plan 2 routes of egress at 90° from each other. Clear all obstructions and debris from the paths and practice disengaging with the tool and evacuating both routes. Be aware of any nearby targets that could be struck and also fall over extending the range of the kill zone.
We used to "un-stack" radio towers that were in good shape all the time until we took an Allied tower down in Alice Tx. As we started digging up the anchors, 1 had rusted completely through, and we have no idea how it didn't pull out of the ground. After that, no matter what condition, we cut them all down.
Man, why did they tear that tower down like that? The tower could have been taken down without damage and I would have bought several sections of it? Plenty of broadcasters and hams could have used some of that tower!
My Guess would be cost. Some rope and bolt cutters. Way cheaper than trying to lower sections at a time. Trust me, I would be able to use a few 3 or so sections my self lol
This is fairly common practice even if you intend to move a transmitter to a new site and construct another tower. The expense of having people climb the tower, disassemble it, meticulously inspect everything for damage/fatigue from age/disassembly/etc outweighs the benefits of just letting it go and scrapping it. Sometimes you luck out and part of the tower survives. In which case someone might get a nice chunk of tower for their home. This is not one of those cases unfortunately.
Cut the single steel anchor that goes into the ground, not the individual wires. Doing so can make remaining guy wires, including those near the guy cutting, snap up high and come whipping back at you . Cut the single anchor point that goes into the concrete is much simpler and faster. Angle grinder/cutoff wheel
My grandpa told my dad a story once of how he had seen a guy get decapitated by similar arresting wires on an aircraft carrier. I don't know how much weight is on those wires, but I wouldn't be just cutting them with bolt cutters.
I’m currently in the city of Oklahoma, I’m trying to do a fm station, can someone please put me in touch with the guy from Oklahoma City or eith someone from this video.
I had to do that to an AM tower in El Paso Texas in December of 1982 due to ice formation in one of the tower's hollow legs. The ice caused a freeze split in the leg during an overnight cold snap. Small holes are normally drilled into the bottom of hollow tower legs to drain any trapped water but the hole in that leg was painted over when the tower was repainted several years earlier. A sloppy paint job bankrupted the new station owner.
It's a rule on TH-cam that any video depicting something being destroyed, no matter how rotten, dilapidated, or dangerous, will have a comments section full of people whining about how it should have been sold/given to them.
i could've used that tower to pick up shortwave radio... SW antennas are expensive, especially tower-type ones. they should've sent it to me
so true
Have seen one of these come down unintentionally during a storm, extremely high winds during severe storm no damage done except to tower itself. Was suspected a small tornado.
lol how much you think all that is worth thow
tralt135 yea I agree
It's amazing how something so large can sound like a single sheet of metal being bent when it collapses.
It's not large look at the end of the video
@@anders5611 I meant large as in, like, tall.
@@multisplace3783 it’s probably louder up close. Just sounds like a sheet of metal cuz it’s so far away
@@LilXancheX You're probably right. Still sounds cool, though.
I guess cos it is literally a few sheets of metal.
"So, how long have you been working for the radio station?"
"I don't, I was just passing by and saw it, we should probably get the f**k outta here."
Hahahaha... that made me chuckle :)
tryithere that is funny
tryithere The best thing is this is from Oklahoma city and i live close to those radio towers there
no one said that.
ok ok.
Still wondering about the term "guy" wire. For years I have called it a "guide" wire.
Same. I clicked on the video to see if anyone was making the correction, but found nothing but your comment. I was also thinking that at least a feww hundred people out of 1,888,464 would have called it out by now. "Guy-wires" Who would have thunk it?
I always called them "sky" wires now I know better.
@@dustinf49 Look up "guy" (noun) in the dictionary. Congrats on making an ass of yourself on a public forum for the rest of eternity.
Jon Posadny he could just delete his comment and your remaining comment would make you the ass for all eternity hahaha
Same here
Guy wires are used to keep the tower straight vertical and to give it structural support. If you notice the tower is very thin and towers like these are not designed to be able to stand up straight without help. Guy wires pull down on the tower at specific locations to keep equal downward pressure across all sections of the tower. This makes it very, very strong and able to hold antennas and climbers and stand against strong winds.
9 years ago
@@cesarislas7130 4 months ago
I always thought they were called guide wires. Maybe I'm wrong.
They are called guide wires. This hill jack OP is wetodded.
@@cesarislas7130 1 year ago
I love how he’s telling us how to do it like we’re about to go raise hell for the ham radio guys
Guess they didn't like the music from that station!!!!
Too many commercials.
cincinnatislider ha lol
You make me laugh!
Achevement unlocked You made me laugh 😂
Very funny. However, a 200' tower wouldn't reliably reach a range much further than 35-50 miles. The station likely replaced this tower with a much taller one to reach a larger audience.
Dwight Stewart r/wooooooosh
Im le 200th like
Imagine what the Warsaw Radio Mast would have looked like when it collapsed.
Trust me it WARSAWESOME!!!!!
lol
would have been fucking crazy
Literally what I'm on here looking for
What is Warsaw?
For the people complaining about how much of a waste this was and how somebody could have come in and taken it down properly, by the time you paid for enough liability insurance to make the property owner's lawyer happy and spent the time and energy needed to take this down properly, you would more than likely have more invested in this old tower before you even got it to your house than it would have cost to buy the tower sections brand new.
+bayouratt283 someone with some sense, thank you!! it's impossible to tell in the video the condition of this old tower, it's unlikely it was worth saving, by the comment he made about just a small amount of damage to the building , they may have planned on replacing it anyway
that was proper the other way was kaboom
the comment right below this makes this hilarious
That's not true for a tower of this height. That tower cost $4k new. Removal by a bonded contractor would be about half of that. So this was indeed the wasteful option.
Wait this isn’t the usual way to take down a radio mast? It seems efficient.
why did they destroy this tower, people in africa could have eaten that!
they better have big stumics
+David Lee stomachs*
FallingInSuicideSilence
thanks
Dangeruzz Gaming they have to tale it down so they can eat it
your stupid
Only in Battlefield 4
Swagner 72 yep
@@flow-_-frost-_-932 well done, creeks aren't that devourered. You shouldn't have asked johnn
Crap, when you zoomed in while waiting for the tower to fall, I almost shat my pants. I thought it was falling towards you!
Yes me to that scared the sh.t out of me
Lmao fr
I ran to the comments looking for this
I just posted basically the same comment 😅
Cutting the cables one at a time presents the problem of loading the remaining cables beyond their strength limits. The reason this matters is they may break, and a break anywhere except right at the bottom will send the cable ends whipping around. Anybody who has ever seen a cable whip doesn't want to be within range. Nobody was hurt, this time.
You win the GENIUS of the day. Thanks for your engineering input. 😆
Let me guess. Your the national tower destruction OSHA inspector and you have spent countless hours overseeing towers falling in all kinds of conditions. Or do you sit at a desk and do math. Stick to calculators and protractors. Let the county people actually do the things.
@T.J. Kong no, but I assume you do? 😂✌️. But seriously thank you for the explanation.
@T.J. Kong That makes clear sense. We did one a long time ago where I cut the whole guy anchor releasing all guy wires at once. It was a 225' Larger Guy Tower and it dropped like a tree. What is the difference between cutting one guy wire at a time vs. all / the whole anchor? Just curious I have one to drop soon.
2:50 sounded cool.
He Man I thought it was a jet
@@guv8426 Me too
Imagine being 25m from it
looks easy...might make this my new friday night thing..
I was thinking that lol but already knew there pretty easy to make fall
lol 69 likes
Lol
Caspian border (?)
Where are the other buildings then
AgiBla98 thank god I'm not the only one that thought this was like battlefeild
AgiBla98 need some trees
Nah one in caspian border is real and located in Turkmenistan it is one of the tallest structures on earth
AgiBla98 lol
Thanks for the instructions! I am going to go out and cut down radio station towers now. Looks fun!
Bring thermite.
FUUUUUUCK man @2:31 when you zoom in it looks as if the tower is about to land on you man. I caught myself jumping out of my chair
I wasnt really all that worried.
@@JimBob_Joe77 woah chill out matt you've enough bravery for all of us
Same
That would have made a much more interesting video.
1972 while stationed on Okinawia in the Army Signal Corps, we had to take down a few dozen towers left over from the Korean War and because Vietnam was slowing down many of those towers.
Most were Grangers and the all had a "ujoint" base so we had only one side we could cut.
But we cut the guys starting on the lower guy and the head guy last so the towers fell in a straight line and not all buckled up and it made stacking the sections easier as we cut them.
Yeah, getting paid to do cool stuff was well worth the 3 years I put in!!
*OH SHIT, WE LEFT JERRY UP THERE!*
its ok, he came down too
Seriously I'm ok... landed on my head
This is the old KPAY tower system in Chico California. KHSL-AM was on 1290 using this two tower array and then they moved 1290 to the KPAY-AM 1060 array. 1060 went dark and 1290 was moved to the 1060 towers. Basically this is located at Bruce Road and Remington in Chico California...or rather was located.
I did tower work 36D20 in the Army and we deactivated a lot of towers in the old Granger line on Okinawa, not Ron25s. We cut the guys from the inside out to the head guy and the towers always fell in a nice straight line but they were built a bit sturdier than a -25. But still a good drop.
My brother in law deactivated most of the Omega stations.
i saw some of that work while at naha and kadena early 70s...
"WZAZ: Where Disco Lives Forever!"
Really surprised that it didn't fall after the first guy line was cut. And it was surprisingly stable after losing two.
Watching the guy try to turn those old corroded turnbuckles without tools and without gloves convinced me the crew were in over their heads. Very lucky no one was hurt.
+Tyler D. what you would use wire cutters? I'd go with the bolties that's thick cable not wire. The guys being in over their heads because he's using his hands. I wouldn't say nor support that argument.
Ralph Averill Over their heads? Its taking down a radio antenna not like you need a phd to do that.
It did come on to me as a bit strange, like some people were passing by, saying to eachother: I know what we should do today, let's bring down the first radio tower we see!
Tyler D. I was saying the same as you
And what do u do for a ivig mister know-it-all? Push paper sell cars. Security guard....mind your own job..not someone else's
No PPE and I'm suprised they didn't throw a heavy blanket over the cable to slow any whiplash.
They know where cable goes when cut, and if you are outside the possible whip zone it simply CANNOT reach the worker. If you are inside the whip zone you're incompetent. They weren't.
2:30 my heart sank because I thought it was falling towards you
Same
That would have made a much more interesting video.
The video's duration is 4:20, so it's a sign that they are high
Can you imagine how hard that wire whips the ground when the tower lands??
How you know the engineer is a hillbilly: he uses a hay bale as protection
Gloves and hard hat?
Won't you at all getting hit by these variables. Debris yeah but the rest = too bad, dead
What country radio station was it ?
"Where should I cut?" The northern equivalent to "Hold my beer" that is so prevalent down here in the south.
When i was a kid I was always told that there was a prison under those towers.
2:30 when you zoomed in I thought the tower was falling on you
same
@@MattBonk991 Same
That would have made a much more interesting video.
they made it to the shack at the end of portal 2 bruh
No engineer on earth can bring down a tower by cutting the guys and not have it be destroyed. If someone wants to save an erect tower, it's dismantled by a climbing crew and lowered by crane or gin pole. Cutting a guy is done when the tower needs to be brought down cheaply and quickly.
was the satellite for to receive radio to send to the tower?
There was a radio station in Florence, SC that had their tower mysteriously taken down by this method in wee hours of the morning one night. They never did find out who did it. The station was in financial trouble and the suspicion was that the owner did it or had somebody do it to collect on the insurance. It couldn't ever be proven, though. This was before everybody and his brother and kid sister had cameras set up everywhere.
I wouldn't doubt it. People in that part of the world are so fucking retarded and bass-ackwards
@@SerenityMae11 Uh, I was born and raised in "that part pf the world" and still live here. Your prejudice and intolerance are showing. You might want to tuck that back in.
@@b1blancer1 Always some crap going down in Florence
Life after people style!
Rest in peace all the victims who lost their lifes on this tragic day then the antenna collapsed. Never Forget
who da fuck cares no one died
im alive aint i
Worst than 9/11 XD
Thoughts and Prayers!
Don't you dare ever make fun of or shoot off your conspiracies about this antenna collapse, I lost 12 friends to it that day.
"There's the only damage right there, just a little scratch" meanwhile entire radio tower has collapsed
Now Oklahoma doesn’t have a radio station. Good job!
Strange Brew who cares about Oklahoma
Its sad to be knocking them down, can they not keep them going or have they any other use for them?
im not sure what prompted me to want to look up falling towers. im fascinated by tall radio towers and i just got the idea of wanting to see one fall just because they're so interesting, a feat of human engineering, they're so hypnotically tall. :D every time i see one of these tall radio towers on the road, i stare at it as we're driving past.
If your interested in radio towers and TV towers you definitely need to watch the movie fall. Two girls climb a abandoned TV tower that is 2000 feet tall called the b67 TV tower and the ladder falls so they get styck up there
I'd like to see some safety glasses. Otherwise only wondering why it is being taken down? Was it out of spec? No mobile phone company wanted to rent it? Is everything on fiber now?
Are there any girl wires to cut??
Here's where the name comes from... A guy (probably from Dutch gei, "brail") is a line (rope) attached to and intended to control the end of a spar on a sailboat.
Human mouse trap. I've worked in this industry since 82' and it still scares me .
When guy wires and gal wires intertwine are smaller gauge wires made?
Yeah mine kinda bends to the left before the tip too. It's okay it's actually common.
I Saved The Building By Pausing The Video And Quitting The Video
Being a old DXer, I find it sad as well. Oh the glory of a 200' tower!
Many years ago worker did this to an old WSLG AM radio tower.
They cleared everything from the projected path.
The old transmitter building, the workers pickup truck and the highway were the only things in the opposite direction.
They cut the support wires and managed to hit all three. 😢
Looks like the the guy taking down the tower didn't really know what he was doing...
haha and they call him an engineer
But he'd "bin thunkn' bout it" what could go wrong...
Like it's complicated...
Got it down tho and didn't die
ike fun - how cute, another usesles internetwanker.
Do you like your own comment? It's very important to mention.
Why was it taken down? Seems like it is a good resource. Just change the antenna type on there.
One could have sold the sections for a minimum of $50.00 each. The guy wiring is virtually scrap, since it was used. eBay values could have exceeded $75.00 per section. Now it's worth what $20/ton?
If it's an AM site, there is thousands of pounds of copper in the ground they could recover.
Steve Weiss It's probably already been stolen. The duggies need copper in the ground to steal so they can buy meth and coke. Some broadcast engineers won't listen, but that's what's wrong with AM Stations with a series feed tower, no ground radials and they are just now understanding how the illegal drug world works.
Steve Weiss
looks like an FM site to me, with the evenly spaced antennas at the top (which focus the station's signal at the horizon).
A tower can be FM and AM at the same time, but AM towers have an insulator at the base.
Most AM stations have more than one tower - as many as twelve!
heck just the cost of a couple guys per hour to disassemble the tower outweighs the profit of trying to resell those sections.
Just wondering what reason it was brought down for...?🤔
You could also rename this video to Radio Tower Collapses After Guy Cuts Wires and it would still make sense
Our CPT in Afghanistan thought we could lower one with the wires. Thing almost fell on my homie Lopez 😂
2:31 I thought it was falling onto him at first
That would have made a much more interesting video.
My only question is this.....how the heck did y’all think you could help “guide it down” w a rope tied to the top and a 175-200 pound man on the other end?
That’s physically impossible
Absolutely not professionals. I cringed through the whole thing. They mostly didn't have a clue nor did they have a safety culture. If they continue, their lack of knowledge, proper equipment and safe procedures will catch up to them in a very tragic and horrible way.
I can hear it now,,,,”Agnes,did up pay the damn tv bill??, because I can’t get a damn thing on it now!” LOL
Why so many commas
why wouldnt you just hire a crane to lower it down? wouldve been a few hundred bucks, and you could salvage the tower for resale or re use.
They couldn’t find anyone to take it, plus it was very old.
My guess is they were just passing by and wanted to create a panic for the local radio stations.
@@jwalster9412 I think the tower was too weak to climb so they couldn’t climb it to do repairs
*"You were banned for griefing"*
but have you ever wondered how they get it up to start with??
He's a legend by making this video 4:20 minutes long
I think that was the entire point. I don't see much more point to this video.
So we could do this to the KVLY TV antenna?
video starts 2:00
Balys thanks
Balys actually if you look closely the video starts at 0:00
Cam Ohara If you look closely, you can see that you don't understand the joke.
PenguinToast you're a fucking idiot. Mine was a joke. Obviously it's out of your intelligence range
Balys w
When toppling an overhead structure plan 2 routes of egress at 90° from each other. Clear all obstructions and debris from the paths and practice disengaging with the tool and evacuating both routes. Be aware of any nearby targets that could be struck and also fall over extending the range of the kill zone.
Stand near the tower when the guy wires are cut and film with a cell phone. Welcome your new followers. Then Jesus.
The turnbuckles will turn much better with the treads wire brushed off and oiled.
@Roy G Biv Obvious for some, not all...
What year is this?
vsause anyone?
Yup.
DarkFuSiOnZ178 used to till I had to pay for it
Vsauce micheal here
mvp
Cancer incarnate
Why did this have all the signs of "....hold my beer, watch this..."?
Wow, I expected a lot more noise from all that metal falling. Too bad you lost the tower though..
When he zooms in at 2:30 I originally thought the tower was falling in his direction.
That would have made a much more interesting video.
WHY WOULD YOU DESTROY SUCH A BEUTIFULL CREATURE?
not a animal
@@BattleshipOrion r/woosh
@@KingStr0ng we arent on reddit shut the fuck up people like you are fucking obnoxious
Not Today No, that wasn’t a whooosh. You clearly don’t understand what that means.
Where in Northern California was that?
That guy should invest in a marlin spike, they're great for turnbuckles.
They are called GUY wires.
are there no HAM radio groups who would have dismantled this tower for FREE ?
I have dreams that I fall from these things all the time
We used to "un-stack" radio towers that were in good shape all the time until we took an Allied tower down in Alice Tx.
As we started digging up the anchors, 1 had rusted completely through, and we have no idea how it didn't pull out of the ground.
After that, no matter what condition, we cut them all down.
Look how long the video is
#SMOKEWEEDEVERYDAY
+D1 Bound no
420!! I'm sorry
get a life
hue
reads comment, scrolls up to see if it is actually 4:20, grins and proceeds to go back to reading comments
Love that "whoosh" sound as it falls.
Man, why did they tear that tower down like that? The tower could have been taken down without damage and I would have bought several sections of it? Plenty of broadcasters and hams could have used some of that tower!
My Guess would be cost. Some rope and bolt cutters. Way cheaper than trying to lower sections at a time. Trust me, I would be able to use a few 3 or so sections my self lol
OneStudPuppy Yea, I could have used 40' of it. Beats buying new from Rohn if the used tower is in decent shape.
***** On self destruction or inferior, lead-filled products?
This is fairly common practice even if you intend to move a transmitter to a new site and construct another tower. The expense of having people climb the tower, disassemble it, meticulously inspect everything for damage/fatigue from age/disassembly/etc outweighs the benefits of just letting it go and scrapping it. Sometimes you luck out and part of the tower survives. In which case someone might get a nice chunk of tower for their home. This is not one of those cases unfortunately.
***** i... what?
Is this on a tape recorder? Kinda looks and sounds like it
When he zoomed in, I thought the tower was coming right at him
That would have made a much more interesting video.
What station's towers were these? (Unless it's a secret.)
How to turn a $20,000 antenna mast into $500 of scrap metal. Dude hardly knows how to use a screw driver. Bolt cutter a bit better.
What if it was due for replacing?
Cut the single steel anchor that goes into the ground, not the individual wires. Doing so can make remaining guy wires, including those near the guy cutting, snap up high and come whipping back at you . Cut the single anchor point that goes into the concrete is much simpler and faster. Angle grinder/cutoff wheel
2:30
Gosh that freaked me out
I love it the guy that doesn't have a clue giving directions on the correct way to do it!
What would I give for having an antenna tower like this, I would be Master of DX.
imagine if they planed it wrong and the tower tilted the wrong way taking the car with it.
The fact that this video is 4:20 long makes it so much better
funni number! 🤯🤯
I mean, those things are very tall and, how would you even get a tower like this in your backyard?
My grandpa told my dad a story once of how he had seen a guy get decapitated by similar arresting wires on an aircraft carrier. I don't know how much weight is on those wires, but I wouldn't be just cutting them with bolt cutters.
He was behind the cable... they went the other way; towards the tower...
I’m currently in the city of Oklahoma, I’m trying to do a fm station, can someone please put me in touch with the guy from Oklahoma City or eith someone from this video.
you cant pull that off without knowing what youre doing. sure they dont play the part very well but god damn they nailed it
I had to do that to an AM tower in El Paso Texas in December of 1982 due to ice formation in one of the tower's hollow legs. The ice caused a freeze split in the leg during an overnight cold snap. Small holes are normally drilled into the bottom of hollow tower legs to drain any trapped water but the hole in that leg was painted over when the tower was repainted several years earlier. A sloppy paint job bankrupted the new station owner.