Anyone ever take a 60' tower down?

[MossRoad]

I've got 60' of tower disassembled and stacked in my back yard. I brought 30' over from our last house 30 years ago with the intention of putting up a TV antenna to get Chicago stations. A few years later, I saw a 30' tower laying next to someone's house that looked identical to mine. I asked if I could buy it from them and they gave it to me. So I now have 5-10' sections and 10' top section. Right around that time we got satellite, and a small antenna on the roof got all the local stations. With the switch to digital, we went from 5 local stations to about 35. Then we got Samsung TV with several hundred channels. I just never had the need to put that antenna back up. So there it sits.

 

[MossRoad]

I've got 60' of tower disassembled and stacked in my back yard. I brought 30' over from our last house 30 years ago with the intention of putting up a TV antenna to get Chicago stations. A few years later, I saw a 30' tower laying next to someone's house that looked identical to mine. I asked if I could buy it from them and they gave it to me. So I now have 5-10' sections and 10' top section. Right around that time we got satellite, and a small antenna on the roof got all the local stations. With the switch to digital, we went from 5 local stations to about 35. Then we got Samsung TV with several hundred channels. I just never had the need to put that antenna back up. So there it sits.

The stack of tower sections makes a good canoe rack, too.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

If I put it up I'd have a high gain antenna on a rotor, then show it to my wife who would look it over with binoculars saying "that looks great, but how come the cable isn't attached to the antenna?".

 

[gstrom99]

Otherwise... TIMBER!!!!

Pics/video are (of course) required!

 

[MossRoad]

 

[bigtiller]

NOT ME. I don't have enough hands to climb a 12' step ladder.

 

[flyerdan]

This would be a good movie for this thread... Fall.

 

[gsganzer]

We dropped the tower this afternoon. Climbed up and put a rope at 30' high, hooked it to the tractor and put some tension on it. Cut 1/4 through the backside of the front legs and cut through the back leg. It felled like a tree with virtually no damage to the tower, with the recent rain softening the ground.

Loaded up in my buddy's trailer and off he went, with his new tower.

 

[dodge man]

How anticlimactic.

 

[gsganzer]

How anticlimactic.

It really was. Easy peasy. We both thought it was the perfect "hold my beer" opportunity and felt a little let down that it went down without any significant story to tell future generations.

 

[EddieWalker]

Sometimes the easy way is the best way to get it done!!!

 

[MossRoad]

We dropped the tower this afternoon. Climbed up and put a rope at 30' high, hooked it to the tractor and put some tension on it. Cut 1/4 through the backside of the front legs and cut through the back leg. It felled like a tree with virtually no damage to the tower, with the recent rain softening the ground.

Loaded up in my buddy's trailer and off he went, with his new tower.