[Today’s run: 3.2 miles]
A guy in the local ham club happened across an empty residence with a tower in the back yard. He connected with the owners, and then lined up ham club members to help him take the tower down.
That happened this past Monday. I was the tower monkey. We had probably a dozen people there.
It was hot!
We started around 7 am.
The tower was about 50 feet tall with two sets of saggy guy wires and a base buried in the dirt.
We started off by putting in some temporary guy ropes at a mid level.
Then we lowered the top section along with a rotator mast. After that the rotator section. Then there were like three more sections and we were done.
I had some problems with the heat and came down twice to cool off and once to use the restroom. But we did get it all done.
Along with all the help we also had use of a modern gin pole which was very cool.