eice fori... interesting Video of the fellow on the fold up ladder on the
falling derrick.. is not field day fun ? I have two 100' towers both with 50'
of rohn 25 2 90 deg . and use it as the falling derrick . works well. But
that's a 50% split and the tower guys 4 ways to control side to side movement.
But if were telling Horror stories. About 25 years ago I answered an ADD in the
Yellow sheets fro 80' ft of Rohn 45. it was west of Binghamton 30 or so miles..
So we set a date for me to get there, WOW what a trip in the back lands !! I
got to the log cabin along this River( Susquehanna I think) and was about 1
hour late. I back my trailer in the lane and got out , Just then a women told
me There down by the river taking down your Tower.. WOW.. Must have loaned a
jin pole from some one Hummm did not need mine. So I grabbed my Climbing belt,
my 1/2 and 9/16 wrenches and sockets. popped them plus some other tower stuff
and headed into the direction of of the River. Just as
I rounded a grove of pines I looked in Horror to see Three grown MEN on on a
small low boy international with a rope attached to the tower at the 40' level
( first layer of 3 way guying. the other at the 80' level) One Older type was
on the tractor, one other fellow was 30 to 40 ft from me Leaning at a 45 deg
angle holding the disconnected equalizer plat and two level of guys and the
Third was just snapping the last guy with a bolt cutter near the
tractor.NOooooooooo I was yelling and the fellow on the tractor started to
creep towards the base and the fellow closet to me yanking on the tower...
what direction y do you think this thing is coming down. Yes My way.. As i
dropped my bucket of tools and spun and ran. the last thing i glimpse was the
tractor sliding on it's side and picking up speed as it left bounced in my
general direction. After the big THUD and dust settled. there were three grown
not in shock buy laughing like a bunch of kids who just pulled a
prank. Needless to say the 60% of the was JUNK I salvaged two sections
and a peice for a concrete stub. This tower was part of a Flood system that
monitored the river height with a floating bobber on a rod in the concrete pit
and relayed it with a pair of stationmaster antenna to some state of gov
agency Some scary experience for sure. They were not up set at all. spent
most of the time uprighting the Lowboy and cutting up the junk tower with my
saws all. PS they gave me the pieces I salvaged :) Wayne W3EA
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