ERI was hired by Clear Channel to bring down at 490-foot guyed tower outside of Mobile, Alabama, over the weekend. I was fortunate enough to be able to go record that and provide photos of the event as a part of this posting. The tower was a Rohn Model 80 pipe leg design more than 40 years old. It is not surprising, given its Gulf Coast location, that over those years it had begun to rust inside the pipe legs. It was determined that tower was not safe to leave up and could not be de-stacked with a gin pole. ERI engineered a plan for dropping the tower within the confines of the tower site. Thanks to Clear Channel’s excellent relations with the community and competence at managing large projects, coupled with ERI’s skills and capabilities, the controlled drop of the structure and clean up was completed in less than one week.
A slide show can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/8j498fm
A video of the of the tower falling can be found here: http://sdrv.ms/13sif6d
Bill Harland
Bill Harland 