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Posted 11 September 2013 - 05:26 PM
Early this morning and more salvage work up top.
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My wife drove past the old tower after dark last night and said that the red lights no longer work. For sure after this morning they won't! Local Utility pulling down the power lines/poles.
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Austin Powder busy on the left by Honda...
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And on the right...
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Before on the left...
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Vid on the left
On the left after...
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Posted 11 September 2013 - 05:34 PM
After the shot by Honda I drove over behind the warehouse for the second shot and should have chosen to watch from the car lot. First the vid (which was mostly out of sight)...
When I drove back over to the car lot I could see that this shot opened the wall toward the pit they've been digging at the old quarry.
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Posted 12 September 2013 - 11:59 AM
View of the same place taken from the bottom of the old Quarry pit. (Yep, I got to ride around the site on that Kawasaki 4-wheeler!)
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Posted 12 September 2013 - 12:01 PM
Skipping a bunch of still pics and going right to two vids!
and "Tower Down!"...
Was Shopping Advisor - Low Rates Now Alaska,the Last Frontier Fa
Posted 12 September 2013 - 12:08 PM
They did an Austin Powder shot way off to the left while they had both Lee Hiway and I-81 shut down and I had to wait for that dust to clear before an 'After' pic...
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Then drove around to the car lot for another angle.
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Posted 12 September 2013 - 02:09 PM
A low-boy showed up on the site with a new machine even before the tower hit the ground.
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Wonder how quickly these jaws will bite the tower and cables all apart?
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Moot Minion
Posted 12 September 2013 - 03:24 PM
Thanks for covering this Tom!
Love the tower finally falling!
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Was Shopping Advisor - Low Rates Now Alaska,the Last Frontier Fa
Posted 13 September 2013 - 12:23 PM
I'm gonna make an effort to try not to offend any P.C. Police hereabouts by referring to the Takeuchii as the 'Little Nipper'...(shame on me!), but his bigger brother just came off another low boy this morning!
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Now, these are some serious jaws!
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Posted 13 September 2013 - 03:07 PM
Okay, you've an old, used up cell tower laying on a hill...what do ya do with it? First they measure up (down?) from the base about a hundred feet and send in Li'l Ni...I mean 'Takii' to cut through the whole thing and tell him to back outta there.
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Then you send the 320 with the clamp bucket to carve a path down along the high side of the upper two thirds of it.
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Then grab ahold just under the top (bottom?) end...
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Shove that outta the way and move down beneath it...
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Grab the middle of the whole thing...
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And begin dragging the whole mess downhill.
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Gonna need help from, uh, Takii again...
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Start dragging again
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Now...drag that part away and tuck it behind those trees.
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Was Shopping Advisor - Low Rates Now Alaska,the Last Frontier Fa
Posted 13 September 2013 - 04:03 PM
Now the 320 heads back up again...
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And start dragging the next chunk.
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On down the hill.
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And stuff it behind the trees.
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Now head back up and grab some of the bigger hunks that fell off...
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And carry them all the way up to the top.
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Where Taki has a new little Buddy - shaped like a Bobcat but with a base plate and a top clamp that will be used to pull out the remaining panels on the old tower pads.
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So, there's this tower base section left up here.
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Let's just push it over the edge!
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And push it again.
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Gotta keep that snarl of loose coax out from under the tracks.
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Meanwhile Buddy is down below collecting more scrap.
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Push it one more time and Buddy is headed back to the top.
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Decoding Your Secrets
Posted 13 September 2013 - 06:24 PM
Skipping a bunch of still pics and going right to two vids!
and "Tower Down!"...
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Posted 13 September 2013 - 07:09 PM
Sometimes I get carried away with the pics and have a hard time sorting out the duds and keeping track of the right sequence for posting them, so...
Here are five vids instead. Hope they work better for you folks, too. Even with youtube 'stabilizing' them, the shakes and crummy zooms are my fault...the annoying back-up beeper noise was from a dozer busy spreading fill right in front of where I was parked.
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Posted 13 September 2013 - 07:45 PM
Those trees block the view of a shelf of fill about 30 yards wide and waiting there is Big Brother.
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And here comes the first of two 53 ft long debris bins, the first driver tried backing in...didn't know there was room for him to turn around in there.
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The second driver did it right...
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Big Brother easily clamps/lifts/loads as well as cutting the big stuff.
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Loading the first bin.
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First load moves out...
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And the second load is outta here!
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Just a little fencing to cut down and then slabs to dig out.
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From the freeway at days end.
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Posted 14 September 2013 - 11:36 AM
Pretty calm Saturday and the crew only working 8 hours today with a pause for an Austin Powder shot about 2pm. There's about 45 seconds of dead air in the following vid - but if I trim it the audio is lost.
corvette dude
Posted 17 September 2013 - 04:46 AM
tom,really great job with this
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Posted 17 September 2013 - 02:50 PM
The local FIre Department got the ok to salvage some of the fencing, posts and the big gate yesterday...that's the last of the old tower. The slabs will be torn out as the excavation happens up there.
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Today the first drill has moved atop the hill and is drilling holes near the edge on the east side of the hill.
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A closer view from behind the warehouse. That shot will go off tomorrow.
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Below that drill Austin Powder is loading up for a shot today that will kinda be spread out.
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Posted 17 September 2013 - 02:54 PM
Today the folks on the hill were watching what was going on in the car lot for a change!
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Posted 17 September 2013 - 05:10 PM
So today this gohungous conveyor showed up...was told it's a 'stacker' that will build up the gravel piles easier than using a dozer, front bucket or excavator and less fuel too!
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Adding more big rocks to the pile for the hammer to break into smaller ones.
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Watched this rig use mechanical arms to remove/replace a tire on one of the dump trucks.
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Fairly large patch of holes up there by 4pm today.
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Posted 17 September 2013 - 05:24 PM
Someone here locally asked me if I'd gotten any souvenirs from the old tower...well, of course I did!
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Upper left - two of the clips that secure each run of coax at each horizontal brace on the tower.
Lower left - some kind of insulated clamp, parts broken off?
Center - two round headed hardened steel bolts.
Far right - piece of tubing (approx 4 inch diameter?) sheared off by Big Brother.
Draped over it all - copper grounding wire with swaged two holed connector.
I've also got two vids from shots yesterday and today but youtube is currently being a tad difficult for uploads...will try again later.
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Posted 17 September 2013 - 07:11 PM
This vid from yesterday was of charges set in the bottom of the deep pit in front of the rock wall. I thought it was going to be wider.
The shot today was wider than I expected and moved from the hill out toward the freeway. Without hearing the horn, I flinched again!
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