[BC] CKST 1040 Tower Demolition

[Barry Mishkind]

You have motivated me to move one of my The Worst I've Ever Seen to 
the top of the pile.

Sometime, probably next week... I'll mention it in the weekly BDR newsletter.

b

At 06:55 PM 10/22/2009, Chuck Lakaytis wrote:
>Many years ago I had left a station that started a new tranmsitter site
>project. The GM decided against advice that he would accept the offer of
>a local welding company to "builf you a tower"
>
>I think this was about 600 feet in the middle of the oil patch in
>western Kansas.  It turned out to be a nightmare.  Turned out that the
>station had to pay to have a welder certified, paid to have the welds
>inspected, etc....no money saving at all!
>
>And now they have a tower they cannot rent space on because I imagine no
>structrual engineer will touch.  What kind of steel, etc, where are the
>certificates, etc.

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