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KL7OF
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« on: June 22, 2011, 02:36:05 PM »

These tower sections are being used for barricades in a boatyard near me...Looks like they are 24 inch sides and made of sched 40 pipe or heavy wall tube...couldn't resist taking a picture...


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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2011, 02:55:04 PM »

what a waste
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« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2011, 03:40:49 PM »

Maybe offer to swap sawhorses and rope...... Wink
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« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2011, 04:14:12 PM »

Makes ya wonder . . . .
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73,  Mitch

Since 1958. There still is nothing like tubes to keep your coffee warm in the shack.

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« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2011, 02:43:54 PM »

Looks like an old Stainless or Fort Worth Microwave tower, maybe 36" face. For a commercial user it cost just about as much to put up a used tower as it is to buy a new tower. Tower crews hate dealing with used stuff and also with the latest EIA-222 specifications think its G or H a lot of those old towers won't make specifications even if you strip everything off them. I had scraped a similar 300 foot Stainless years ago, each twenty foot sections weighed around five or six hundred pounds per section. I have ninety feet or three sections of Pyrod 32" face solid leg tower at a transmitter site on the ground and have offered it to several Hams and they usually say they will take it until they find out how heavy it is and all the problems involved in transporting it. At the AM transmitter site up in Lancaster that I removed my BTA-1 from there were four 180' Rohn 25 towers and they ended up just knocking them over and scraping them, at least that one in the picture found a use, and I think that tower makes a good barricade!
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