OT - CB Radio tower

Looking at buying a piece of property in the country. Current owner erected a CB radio tower many years ago, it is at least 100' high and maybe 120'. It hasn't been used in years, and I would view it as a liability.

It appears to be the standard triangular cross section radio tower, with lots of guy wires. I'm thinking that to take it down, I could tie onto one of the upper guy wires with a long enough cable to make sure it wouldn't hit the truck when it fell, and cut the guy wires on the other sides, and pull it down. There's plenty of room for it to fall on three sides, and plenty of pasture room to allow hooking up to it. There's a house on the fourth side, got to make sure it doesn't go that way. If the tower buckles and falls straight down, that won't hurt anything, either.

Anyone have any experieice at this? It seems to me that it should be easy to take down, but it also strikes me as the type of project where things could go bad in a hurry.

By the way, I'm curious as to how they got the thing up there. How do you erect somthing that tall? It looks sturdy enough to climb to the top, but even though I'm not bothered by heights, I sure wouldn't want to do it.

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Willie
KC0YQO

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Many years ago i was involved in a cb club, we regularly put up and took down towers such as you described. We used a gin pole to erect and take down the towers. It is a piece of pipe strong enough to hold up one section (usually 10' long) with a pulley at the top and clamping mechanism on the bottom, just clamp it to the top of the last section when erecting and pull up the next section of tower and mount it on top of the last, then move the gin pole up to the top of the next section and repeat the process, reverse this process to take it down. Its fairly simple, it just takes someone thats not scared of heights and has the safety equipment needed (usually a safety belt was all we used).
I would be wary of using this tower for a windmill of any type, it was built for antenna use only, if you do be sure to check out the specs. as to weight and stress the tower will take. It sounds like it would be a rohn 22 guage tower which was common for antennas.
The previous posts are right as to the local ham club being glad to have the opportunity to obtain the tower. Maybe even buy it.

Just my thoughts Randy

Don't be too hasty to get the tower down. There are many Ham operators in your area who will be willing to help you. Should be someone who will take it down at no charge or even , perish the thought, BUY the tower from you.
I'll do some checking today, so send me an e-mail, mark subject box "tower" & I'll give you some contacts.
Willie
KC0YQO