[BC] Used towers

[Cowboy]

On Thursday 22 October 2009 11:56 pm, k7cr wrote:
>  Some one just wrote something about there being a huge 
>  market for used towers.   That so?

 One might think, but it's just not so.
 ( unless one is referring to the local scrap market )

>  I have 200 feet of Utility 340SR on the ground and 
>  it appears that no one wants it.

 On the ground stands a much better chance of being sold,
 *IF* someone very close by wants it.

 The cost of erecting steel is not the steel itself so much,
 as the labor involved, and the hardware that must be
 replaced, such as guy lines, and shipping.

 Shipping costs are the same, new or used.
 Erection costs may be slightly higher with used.
 Dismanteling costs are not inconsequential !!
 ( I can fall a "small" tower almost by myself in a day.
 Dismantelling one takes a full crew, gin pole, etc. 
 and can cost as much as erecting it in the first place,
 minus foundations and hardware )
 New guys and hardware are the same either way.
 The potential costs of evaluating, permitting, and
 insuring used can be substantialy higher.

 Very often, we'll abandon the gin pole on site, as
 the cost of shipping it home is often more than the
 cost of building a new one for the next job.

-- 
Cowboy