Radio Tower Collapses After Guy Wires Are Cut
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2010
- Tower crew brings down an unsafe-to-climb 200-foot radio tower. This was a planned project and done intentionally. And yes, they really are called GUY wires. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy-wire
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It's amazing how something so large can sound like a single sheet of metal being bent when it collapses.
It's not large look at the end of the video
@@anders5611 I meant large as in, like, tall.
@@multisplace3783 it’s probably louder up close. Just sounds like a sheet of metal cuz it’s so far away
@@LilXancheX You're probably right. Still sounds cool, though.
I guess cos it is literally a few sheets of metal.
It's a rule on RUclips that any video depicting something being destroyed, no matter how rotten, dilapidated, or dangerous, will have a comments section full of people whining about how it should have been sold/given to them.
i could've used that tower to pick up shortwave radio... SW antennas are expensive, especially tower-type ones. they should've sent it to me
so true
Have seen one of these come down unintentionally during a storm, extremely high winds during severe storm no damage done except to tower itself. Was suspected a small tornado.
lol how much you think all that is worth thow
tralt135 its not even here dumbass
"So, how long have you been working for the radio station?"
"I don't, I was just passing by and saw it, we should probably get the f**k outta here."
Hahahaha... that made me chuckle :)
tryithere that is funny
tryithere The best thing is this is from Oklahoma city and i live close to those radio towers there
no one said that.
ok ok.
Guy wires are used to keep the tower straight vertical and to give it structural support. If you notice the tower is very thin and towers like these are not designed to be able to stand up straight without help. Guy wires pull down on the tower at specific locations to keep equal downward pressure across all sections of the tower. This makes it very, very strong and able to hold antennas and climbers and stand against strong winds.
9 years ago
@@cesarislas7130 4 months ago
I always thought they were called guide wires. Maybe I'm wrong.
They are called guide wires. This hill jack OP is wetodded.
@@cesarislas7130 1 year ago
I love how he’s telling us how to do it like we’re about to go raise hell for the ham radio guys
For the people complaining about how much of a waste this was and how somebody could have come in and taken it down properly, by the time you paid for enough liability insurance to make the property owner's lawyer happy and spent the time and energy needed to take this down properly, you would more than likely have more invested in this old tower before you even got it to your house than it would have cost to buy the tower sections brand new.
+bayouratt283 someone with some sense, thank you!! it's impossible to tell in the video the condition of this old tower, it's unlikely it was worth saving, by the comment he made about just a small amount of damage to the building , they may have planned on replacing it anyway
that was proper the other way was kaboom
the comment right below this makes this hilarious
That's not true for a tower of this height. That tower cost $4k new. Removal by a bonded contractor would be about half of that. So this was indeed the wasteful option.
Wait this isn’t the usual way to take down a radio mast? It seems efficient.
2:50 sounded cool.
He Man I thought it was a jet
@@guv8426 Me too
Imagine being 25m from it
Guess they didn't like the music from that station!!!!
Too many commercials.
cincinnatislider ha lol
You make me laugh!
Achevement unlocked You made me laugh 😂
Very funny. However, a 200' tower wouldn't reliably reach a range much further than 35-50 miles. The station likely replaced this tower with a much taller one to reach a larger audience.
Dwight Stewart r/wooooooosh
Im le 200th like
Crap, when you zoomed in while waiting for the tower to fall, I almost shat my pants. I thought it was falling towards you!
Yes me to that scared the sh.t out of me
Lmao fr
I ran to the comments looking for this
Imagine what the Warsaw Radio Mast would have looked like when it collapsed.
Trust me it WARSAWESOME!!!!!
lol
would have been fucking crazy
Literally what I'm on here looking for
What is Warsaw?
Still wondering about the term "guy" wire. For years I have called it a "guide" wire.
Same. I clicked on the video to see if anyone was making the correction, but found nothing but your comment. I was also thinking that at least a feww hundred people out of 1,888,464 would have called it out by now. "Guy-wires" Who would have thunk it?
I always called them "sky" wires now I know better.
@@dustinf49 Look up "guy" (noun) in the dictionary. Congrats on making an ass of yourself on a public forum for the rest of eternity.
Jon Posadny he could just delete his comment and your remaining comment would make you the ass for all eternity hahaha
Same here
FUUUUUUCK man @2:31 when you zoom in it looks as if the tower is about to land on you man. I caught myself jumping out of my chair
I wasnt really all that worried.
@@TallCecil77 woah chill out matt you've enough bravery for all of us
Same
That would have made a much more interesting video.
Cutting the cables one at a time presents the problem of loading the remaining cables beyond their strength limits. The reason this matters is they may break, and a break anywhere except right at the bottom will send the cable ends whipping around. Anybody who has ever seen a cable whip doesn't want to be within range. Nobody was hurt, this time.
You win the GENIUS of the day. Thanks for your engineering input. 😆
Let me guess. Your the national tower destruction OSHA inspector and you have spent countless hours overseeing towers falling in all kinds of conditions. Or do you sit at a desk and do math. Stick to calculators and protractors. Let the county people actually do the things.
@T.J. Kong no, but I assume you do? 😂✌️. But seriously thank you for the explanation.
@T.J. Kong That makes clear sense. We did one a long time ago where I cut the whole guy anchor releasing all guy wires at once. It was a 225' Larger Guy Tower and it dropped like a tree. What is the difference between cutting one guy wire at a time vs. all / the whole anchor? Just curious I have one to drop soon.
looks easy...might make this my new friday night thing..
I was thinking that lol but already knew there pretty easy to make fall
lol 69 likes
Lol
Only in Battlefield 4
Swagner 72 yep
@@flow-_-frost-_-932 well done, creeks aren't that devourered. You shouldn't have asked johnn
Rogue Transmission xD
Thanks for the instructions! I am going to go out and cut down radio station towers now. Looks fun!
Bring thermite.
1972 while stationed on Okinawia in the Army Signal Corps, we had to take down a few dozen towers left over from the Korean War and because Vietnam was slowing down many of those towers.
Most were Grangers and the all had a "ujoint" base so we had only one side we could cut.
But we cut the guys starting on the lower guy and the head guy last so the towers fell in a straight line and not all buckled up and it made stacking the sections easier as we cut them.
Yeah, getting paid to do cool stuff was well worth the 3 years I put in!!
2:30 my heart sank because I thought it was falling towards you
Same
That would have made a much more interesting video.
Caspian border (?)
Where are the other buildings then
AgiBla98 thank god I'm not the only one that thought this was like battlefeild
AgiBla98 need some trees
Nah one in caspian border is real and located in Turkmenistan it is one of the tallest structures on earth
AgiBla98 lol
This is the old KPAY tower system in Chico California. KHSL-AM was on 1290 using this two tower array and then they moved 1290 to the KPAY-AM 1060 array. 1060 went dark and 1290 was moved to the 1060 towers. Basically this is located at Bruce Road and Remington in Chico California...or rather was located.
*OH SHIT, WE LEFT JERRY UP THERE!*
its ok, he came down too
Seriously I'm ok... landed on my head
why did they destroy this tower, people in africa could have eaten that!
they better have big stumics
+David Lee stomachs*
FallingInSuicideSilence
thanks
Dangeruzz Gaming they have to tale it down so they can eat it
your stupid
I did tower work 36D20 in the Army and we deactivated a lot of towers in the old Granger line on Okinawa, not Ron25s. We cut the guys from the inside out to the head guy and the towers always fell in a nice straight line but they were built a bit sturdier than a -25. But still a good drop.
My brother in law deactivated most of the Omega stations.
i saw some of that work while at naha and kadena early 70s...
"WZAZ: Where Disco Lives Forever!"
Watching the guy try to turn those old corroded turnbuckles without tools and without gloves convinced me the crew were in over their heads. Very lucky no one was hurt.
+Tyler D. what you would use wire cutters? I'd go with the bolties that's thick cable not wire. The guys being in over their heads because he's using his hands. I wouldn't say nor support that argument.
Ralph Averill Over their heads? Its taking down a radio antenna not like you need a phd to do that.
It did come on to me as a bit strange, like some people were passing by, saying to eachother: I know what we should do today, let's bring down the first radio tower we see!
Tyler D. I was saying the same as you
And what do u do for a ivig mister know-it-all? Push paper sell cars. Security guard....mind your own job..not someone else's
2:30 when you zoomed in I thought the tower was falling on you
same
@@MattBonk991 Same
That would have made a much more interesting video.
"Where should I cut?" The northern equivalent to "Hold my beer" that is so prevalent down here in the south.
How you know the engineer is a hillbilly: he uses a hay bale as protection
No engineer on earth can bring down a tower by cutting the guys and not have it be destroyed. If someone wants to save an erect tower, it's dismantled by a climbing crew and lowered by crane or gin pole. Cutting a guy is done when the tower needs to be brought down cheaply and quickly.
Now Oklahoma doesn’t have a radio station. Good job!
Strange Brew who cares about Oklahoma
Really surprised that it didn't fall after the first guy line was cut. And it was surprisingly stable after losing two.
Can you imagine how hard that wire whips the ground when the tower lands??
im not sure what prompted me to want to look up falling towers. im fascinated by tall radio towers and i just got the idea of wanting to see one fall just because they're so interesting, a feat of human engineering, they're so hypnotically tall. :D every time i see one of these tall radio towers on the road, i stare at it as we're driving past.
If your interested in radio towers and TV towers you definitely need to watch the movie fall. Two girls climb a abandoned TV tower that is 2000 feet tall called the b67 TV tower and the ladder falls so they get styck up there
Human mouse trap. I've worked in this industry since 82' and it still scares me .
When i was a kid I was always told that there was a prison under those towers.
"There's the only damage right there, just a little scratch" meanwhile entire radio tower has collapsed
No PPE and I'm suprised they didn't throw a heavy blanket over the cable to slow any whiplash.
They know where cable goes when cut, and if you are outside the possible whip zone it simply CANNOT reach the worker. If you are inside the whip zone you're incompetent. They weren't.
2:31 I thought it was falling onto him at first
That would have made a much more interesting video.
Here's where the name comes from... A guy (probably from Dutch gei, "brail") is a line (rope) attached to and intended to control the end of a spar on a sailboat.
200 ft looked so tall in this. I could only imagine this with a 2000 ft one.
You could also rename this video to Radio Tower Collapses After Guy Cuts Wires and it would still make sense
*"You were banned for griefing"*
3:28 this sounds like my cousins swing set😂 the quick "dam dam dam dadam"
Agee with you on the single point. I have 2 x 95m masts to drop next week and I am planning to use this method. One cut to release all 5 stays at the same time.
There was a radio station in Florence, SC that had their tower mysteriously taken down by this method in wee hours of the morning one night. They never did find out who did it. The station was in financial trouble and the suspicion was that the owner did it or had somebody do it to collect on the insurance. It couldn't ever be proven, though. This was before everybody and his brother and kid sister had cameras set up everywhere.
I wouldn't doubt it. People in that part of the world are so fucking retarded and bass-ackwards
@@SerenityMae11 Uh, I was born and raised in "that part pf the world" and still live here. Your prejudice and intolerance are showing. You might want to tuck that back in.
@@b1blancer1 Always some crap going down in Florence
Being a old DXer, I find it sad as well. Oh the glory of a 200' tower!
Why did this have all the signs of "....hold my beer, watch this..."?
I love it the guy that doesn't have a clue giving directions on the correct way to do it!
I can hear it now,,,,”Agnes,did up pay the damn tv bill??, because I can’t get a damn thing on it now!” LOL
Why so many commas
He's a legend by making this video 4:20 minutes long
I think that was the entire point. I don't see much more point to this video.
If this was done illegally these guys are real smart to videotape it
This is clearly a pro at the best just doin what he does mayne
Rest in peace all the victims who lost their lifes on this tragic day then the antenna collapsed. Never Forget
who da fuck cares no one died
im alive aint i
Worst than 9/11 XD
Thoughts and Prayers!
Don't you dare ever make fun of or shoot off your conspiracies about this antenna collapse, I lost 12 friends to it that day.
2:30
Gosh that freaked me out
We used to "un-stack" radio towers that were in good shape all the time until we took an Allied tower down in Alice Tx.
As we started digging up the anchors, 1 had rusted completely through, and we have no idea how it didn't pull out of the ground.
After that, no matter what condition, we cut them all down.
The guy filming this is a real genius!!
Gloves and hard hat?
Won't you at all getting hit by these variables. Debris yeah but the rest = too bad, dead
I have dreams that I fall from these things all the time
9 Years later and you still get views on this video :)
greetings from Germany
When he zooms in at 2:30 I originally thought the tower was falling in his direction.
That would have made a much more interesting video.
The turnbuckles will turn much better with the treads wire brushed off and oiled.
@Roy G Biv Obvious for some, not all...
They are called GUY wires.
Cut the single steel anchor that goes into the ground, not the individual wires. Doing so can make remaining guy wires, including those near the guy cutting, snap up high and come whipping back at you . Cut the single anchor point that goes into the concrete is much simpler and faster. Angle grinder/cutoff wheel
imagine if they planed it wrong and the tower tilted the wrong way taking the car with it.
Looks like the the guy taking down the tower didn't really know what he was doing...
haha and they call him an engineer
But he'd "bin thunkn' bout it" what could go wrong...
Like it's complicated...
Got it down tho and didn't die
ike fun - how cute, another usesles internetwanker.
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Wow, I expected a lot more noise from all that metal falling. Too bad you lost the tower though..
Thanks... Now I have a fascination with Radio Towers.
guy wire expert/lawyer here, that was awesome
Yeah mine kinda bends to the left before the tip too. It's okay it's actually common.
you cant pull that off without knowing what youre doing. sure they dont play the part very well but god damn they nailed it
Love that "whoosh" sound as it falls.
Wow, that looked so professional. Got a guy cutting metal tension wires with out safetly goggles or gloves. I was waiting for this to become a faces of death video
When he zoomed in, I thought the tower was coming right at him
That would have made a much more interesting video.
What would I give for having an antenna tower like this, I would be Master of DX.
Nicely done
Kind of sad that such a potentially dangerous operation has so much apparent improvisation.
One could have sold the sections for a minimum of $50.00 each. The guy wiring is virtually scrap, since it was used. eBay values could have exceeded $75.00 per section. Now it's worth what $20/ton?
If it's an AM site, there is thousands of pounds of copper in the ground they could recover.
Steve Weiss It's probably already been stolen. The duggies need copper in the ground to steal so they can buy meth and coke. Some broadcast engineers won't listen, but that's what's wrong with AM Stations with a series feed tower, no ground radials and they are just now understanding how the illegal drug world works.
Steve Weiss
looks like an FM site to me, with the evenly spaced antennas at the top (which focus the station's signal at the horizon).
A tower can be FM and AM at the same time, but AM towers have an insulator at the base.
Most AM stations have more than one tower - as many as twelve!
heck just the cost of a couple guys per hour to disassemble the tower outweighs the profit of trying to resell those sections.
video starts 2:00
Balys thanks
Balys actually if you look closely the video starts at 0:00
Cam Ohara If you look closely, you can see that you don't understand the joke.
PenguinToast you're a fucking idiot. Mine was a joke. Obviously it's out of your intelligence range
Balys w
If you back your truck in to where a whole group of the guy wires anchor it will come down really fast!
Someone did that accidently to a radio tower where I grew up.
He was parking his truck and the anchor point wasn't properly protected.
Not the safest way to bring one down but it is fast.
Years later I worked for a 2 way radio shop and on occasion we would get a call "I just bought a property and it has a radio tower on it. Can you take it down?"
Many industries that used to rely on 2 way radio were just starting to switch to cell phones.
If you had a whole fleet that needed to talk to each other radio still made sense.
If you had one tow truck driver who needed to talk to the dispatcher, cell was the way to go.
Once in a while someone like that would call us to take town a tower.
Don't know what we charged but we kept the tower sections and the antenna and cable if it was any good.
End of Portal 2 = this video's beginning.
when hee zoome in i was like OMG hahahaha
WHY WOULD YOU DESTROY SUCH A BEUTIFULL CREATURE?
not a animal
@@BattleshipOrion r/woosh
@@KingStr0ng we arent on reddit shut the fuck up people like you are fucking obnoxious
Not Today No, that wasn’t a whooosh. You clearly don’t understand what that means.
The poor guy, I hope he wires being cut didn't hurt him to much.
Those wire cutting sounds make me anxious
It's just a prank, bro.
2:52 - "fwhoooooooo"
My only question is this.....how the heck did y’all think you could help “guide it down” w a rope tied to the top and a 175-200 pound man on the other end?
That’s physically impossible
Absolutely not professionals. I cringed through the whole thing. They mostly didn't have a clue nor did they have a safety culture. If they continue, their lack of knowledge, proper equipment and safe procedures will catch up to them in a very tragic and horrible way.
When toppling an overhead structure plan 2 routes of egress at 90° from each other. Clear all obstructions and debris from the paths and practice disengaging with the tool and evacuating both routes. Be aware of any nearby targets that could be struck and also fall over extending the range of the kill zone.
Stand near the tower when the guy wires are cut and film with a cell phone. Welcome your new followers. Then Jesus.
The fact that this video is 4:20 long makes it so much better
funni number! 🤯🤯
I was expecting something way more epic, maybe some fire and explosions
It's the cost of dismatling it that would prevent anyone doing that.
Now you had no Internet
Good job
Engineer be buggered, NO Engineer in his or Her right mind would ever take down a perfectly reusable tower like this Disassemble and sell 10 times the scrap value all I can say is they are bloody idiots. Such a waste
***** I know more than you might think Sir, and destroying a perfectly good tower rather than offer it for sale to Amateur Radio Operators or businesses that may require a tower for their own radio communications or for removal is just stupid. Now I don't know if it was offered for sale and removal or not and literally been left with a clean site.
I feel that there would have been someone some place that would have recycled that tower as a tower and not scrap.
Info :- When small Local Satellite TV broadcasting came on line where I lived in the 80's the main TV transmitters were in some cases 250 Km away and big TV reception tower's were the norm, but with the advent of the rebroadcasting they were not needed so I purchased many for scrap value and removed them for next to nothing. Thus for the last years of the 80's and into the early 90's I removed tower's like this from sites and sold them to Ham radio Operators and commercial interests way less than they could buy new ones IF they could find a seller and I made good money so just dropping and selling for scrap value, that is a crying waste.
mozzmann Worse, he calls the guy wires "guide wires". Never trust a so-called "engineer" who doesn't know what the pieces he's working on are actually called.
mozzmann This is the litigious world we live in today. It's getting harder and harder to find people that will allow you to take towers like this down the right way unless you have the liability insurance required to do it. They would rather take it down like this in a controlled, albeit destructive, manner and scrap it than risk a multimillion liability lawsuit if the person attempting to take it down is injured or killed in an accident.
+mozzmann You do realize that it's not the engineers that are taking it down right? I mean they are LITERALLY taking it down, but they're just doing a job. The company told them to take it down. Don't call them idiots if they have no choice in the matter.
vsause anyone?
Yup.
DarkFuSiOnZ178 used to till I had to pay for it
Vsauce micheal here
mvp
Cancer incarnate
I get tired of looking at these ugly things by my house.. now I know how to take care of them once and for all!
"How many pounds are on this". Enough to severe you all in half that's how much
My grandpa told my dad a story once of how he had seen a guy get decapitated by similar arresting wires on an aircraft carrier. I don't know how much weight is on those wires, but I wouldn't be just cutting them with bolt cutters.
He was behind the cable... they went the other way; towards the tower...
Is that even legal
lmfao The engineers are obviously involved with the company that owns the tower that would like to take it down.
Many times the engineers are only involved enough to say that the new EIA/TIA standard makes this tower too expensive to keep up to code. Engineers seldom suggest how to take a tower dow for fear of perceived liability.
Yes, it is legal -- because there are no laws against stupidity.
"behind this hay bale..for safety" lols!
Life after people style!