[BC] CKST 1040 Tower Demolition

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That is my experience as well.  I have had all sorts of towers we  
couldn't give away.

In one case, I owned a very heavy tower on a mountain top.  It was an  
H tower, guyed in SIX directions.  It was built to withstand nearby  
nuclear explosions and continue to provide a telephone backbone for  
the Air Force.

American Tower got it  from us, and ultimately sold the land, but had  
to remove the tower.  The new owner built his dream home.

Nobody wanted the tower.

I even had the same problem with UHP 6 GHz dishes, 12 feet and up.  We  
ended up turning them into scrap.  We had dozens which were unused.   
The scrap value was the base price, and no one wanted to pay it.  I  
wish I kept a couple.

We had two towers in Northern California that we couldn't give away  
either.  I wanted to drop them and bury them.  The land owner's were  
not interested in that!  Frankly, I don't really blame them if there  
is any chance of development in the next few decades.  There wasn't.

--chip

On Oct 22, 2009, at 8:58 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 27
> From: Jerry Mathis <thebeaver32 at gmail.com>
>
> Where? Who?
>
> I've got a standing 750' tower with a pole on top. FM antenna,  
> heliax, and
> STL antenna on it too. High-intensity strobe lights. It's a fairly new
> tower, about 10 years old. No rust. All I really want off it is the  
> STL
> antenna. Tower is not being used for anything right now.
>
> We can't GIVE the damn thing away.
>
> Jerry Mathis
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Blake Bowers <bbowers at mozarks.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> There is a BIG market in used towers, for commercial use.
>>
>> Never had our insurance company complain.