[BC] Used towers

[Mike McCarthy]

Don't forget most places require a design sealed by a PE or SE licensed in
the state of planned re-erection. After spending nearly a year
forensically redesigning/analyzing a tower, there is SUBSTANTIAL costs
involved in re-designing a structure for re-erection under the current
local building code and RS222-Rev G-1.

The smaller the tower, the less it's worth while to execute...if it can be
done at all.  A 60" face tower and bigger OTOH, might be worth doing...

MM

> On Thursday 22 October 2009 11:56 pm, k7cr wrote:
>  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
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