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2 tower take-down:


I only took pictures when I arrived, and I don't think anyone else took any photos during or after the work.

The task went basically according to plan, cleaning all the clutter off the tower and guy wires, dropping the
antenna, and dropping the tower sections.

Probably the most challenging part of the job was that there was a long conduit running from the roof level all
the way up to the top of the tower, to provide electrical power for the christmas lights that were on the tower.
(and possibly for other gear that was up there in the past) But the conduit fittings were frozen, so about 18
feet of conduit and box had to be lifted up out of the middle of the tower after the top section was dropped.

The other problem was the guy wires, which were attached to the tops of sections instead of the bottoms, along
with being the only solid thing that held the tower up. The house bracket wasn't very sturdy, and the tower
itself was rusted up, so we attached temporary guy ropes while removing guy wires so that the tower remained
stable while sections were dropped.

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