Posted by Dan in Houston on September 24, 2007 at 04:49:27 from (38.100.70.66):
This may be slightly off topic, but since there's more practical experience on this website than any I know of, here goes.
Looking at buying a piece of property in the country. Current owner erected a CB radio tower many years ago, it is at least 100' high and maybe 120'. It hasn't been used in years, and I would view it as a liability.
It appears to be the standard triangular cross section radio tower, with lots of guy wires. I'm thinking that to take it down, I could tie onto one of the upper guy wires with a long enough cable to make sure it wouldn't hit the truck when it fell, and cut the guy wires on the other sides, and pull it down. There's plenty of room for it to fall on three sides, and plenty of pasture room to allow hooking up to it. There's a house on the fourth side, got to make sure it doesn't go that way. If the tower buckles and falls straight down, that won't hurt anything, either.
Anyone have any experieice at this? It seems to me that it should be easy to take down, but it also strikes me as the type of project where things could go bad in a hurry.
By the way, I'm curious as to how they got the thing up there. How do you erect somthing that tall? It looks sturdy enough to climb to the top, but even though I'm not bothered by heights, I sure wouldn't want to do it.
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