The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 7/18/2010 1:18 PM, Tony wrote:
I'm thinking of buying a property that was once the sight for a local
dish satellite system. My first concern is liability, although it seems
very well built and there is no rust through the galvanized tubing. It's
100' tall in 5 20' sections with three cables at 3 places around the
tower, total of 9 cables. A view from the top would look like a
triangle, each side about 3' and it appears to be the same size from the
top to the bottom.

I did just find a fairly close sign company with a 120' crane, but today
is sunday so I can't call. I don't know what the tower would cost, maybe
someone would take it for free if they take it down? Maybe it's worth
more?

If it gets expensive I think I could topple the thing one direction
where it is far from any buildings or trees. It actually looks easy
using the cables but that also sounds like a story for the Darwin awards.

Any suggestions appreciated. I thought of renting out antenna space but
I figure it would already be done if anyone was interested.

Looking for suggestions of things to ask or research that I may not
think of. I guess i could leave 20 or 40 feet there and put a TV antenna
on it!

When I was younger, I could climb the darn things and would have loved
to have owned an elevated piece of property with such a tower. I could
have so much fun hanging antennas on something like that for all of my
mad scientist RF experiments.

TDD

You still can relive your younger days! Come on, you know you want it.