Above 1200 Sq/FT The Salvage Garage

[harley jim]

Very cool drone picts. Is that an inspection tool?

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[Strouty]

Drone is absolutely an inspection “tool”!

I think it will fly ridiculously high, but it seems you are supposed to keep it under 400’, not 100% sure yet.

RAD, what you need if you want a remote is to see a second bank of hydraulic valves with wires going to them, but the best way is to get one that was already setup for either a wired or wireless remote. Unless it is free, retrofitting a crane will get really expensive, really quickly. I have passed on a couple beautiful units for this reason.

This morning we loaded the cylindrical silver item onto the trailer, I have a big tarp to cover it too.



Luckily the trailer already had a hole in it, the valve was lower than the feet.

 

[xtremek]

Looks like things are moving along.

 

[harley jim]

I have been looking for one of those tanks

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[XJSuperman]

Putting it on a nice big trailer was a good idea, makes it look smaller and less suspicious. Lol.

 

[rvieceli]

That's for your barbeque grill isn't it Strouty. Don't have to fill it as much.

Ron

 

[F451]

Everything looks epic from a drone.

You've been on a roll lately Strouts, good job.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

Always nice when there is a convenient hole.

 

[Strouty]

Today was a long day, prepped almost everything, have a few more things to do, but nothing major. Crane and crew are both set for tomorrow, fingers crossed I can get some good action shots from the drone.

Had to cut each coax at all the flanges, this way it is ready to come down section by section.





It took longer than expected, but my Cousin has never been on a tower, he works climbing and cutting trees, so it was similar but different. I had to go over safety gear and positioning with him, also had to wait for him to get situated as I wanted to make sure he wasn’t doing something unsafe. Transitioning from the ladder across the face of the tower is not the easiest first day on the job, but he did very well.

 

[harley jim]

What happens to the tower once it is down. Scrap or do you put it back up somewhere else.

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[Strouty]

Should be scrap, Dad wants it for “stock”.

 

[steaks&anvils]

Should be scrap, Dad wants it for “stock”.

Since you are leasing the hill property, do you get to decide what is stored on the rented property?

if not, can you store it in a fashion to support/make a covered "garage" area? Bolt it together and cover with a tarp or use to bridge between to conexes?

Can it stay at the property where you take it down?

Perhaps your step mother would like some nice yard art?

 

[casmurbax]

Haven't read this in few days. Some great posts, nice pictures. I thought you sold those compressor(s) I see one in your garage still. So how many feet of that cable do you need to strip?

Who was responsible for the the tower being put up and, the building, wiring, generator etc?

Drone pics look cool.

They just leave everything behind for you to deal with?

 

[Orionrising]

If its scrap I would probably be interested in buying a bunch of angle, and tube if its heavy enough for gates.

 

[Strouty]

S&A, it will be stored at another one of our tower sites. Not really a good way to make a garage out of it, modifying galvanized steel ***** if you have to weld it.

Cas, there is probably about 400’ of cable to strip, the rest is just cut into 4’ ish lengths, although if the price is way down, it would have to be cut in half lengthwise to get the copper out. If that happens, there will be about 2400’ to cut and lots of that will be waste material, foam and jacket. The tower was originally put up by a cellular company that got bought out by AT&T, the tower itself was bought and sold many times, all the equipment leftover was from Verizon, they had a clause in their lease that said they could abandon it and whoever owned the tower would have to deal with it. We were paid to take ownership of the tower, I negotiated that after they tried to just “give” it to us, so we were essentially paid to remove the tower.

Orion, the tube may be too heavy for a gate, won’t know until it is down, but if you want some, I can make that happen. It won’t be apart completely u til most likely next week.

We are getting an early start, looks like the weather will cooperate for once, I still have my fingers crossed and maybe my toes too.

 

[Strouty]

Can’t see $hit.

 

[xtremek]

I think I see the tower. I'm headed out to the shop to start in the next 15-30, but mine is just pecking on the puter.

 

[jack stand]

Looks like it's coming together for you and I wish you an un eventful de-construction.
Does each of those coax cables represent a "channel " or separate signal/ customer?
We're getting very light and scattered showers with some very small holes in the clouds to see blue sky. This looks like it's slowly moving in your direction.
In other (shorter) words, if my weather is soon to be yours, you should be fine.

 

[Strouty]

Crane arrived!

 

[cbacres]

That’s a crane. I was guessing around a 200 ton just due to height and reach.
300 ton. You don’t mess around Strouty.

How many support trucks came with it?

 

[xtremek]

How much does that cost you a day?

 

[1Garageman]

Their webpage shows the different types of those monsters!!!!!
I can't believe how big and heavy they are. I am surprised they can make it up the road to the terian that these towers are located.

Which one do you have?

 

[Strouty]

$5k for the first 8 hours, $300 an hour after that.

Top is down, working on the next 60’ now.



I did get some drone footage, but can’t get to it right now. Need more batteries for sure, also some more chargers and cables too.

 

[Strouty]

Slow going, I think the crew hasn’t done a lot of tower removals like this.

 

[steaks&anvils]

$5k for the first 8 hours, $300 an hour after that.

Top is down, working on the next 60’ now.

WOW.

It pays to have the right tool for the job. And to know when to hire it out.

My company has had remote projects where the drill rig was $25k a day. Somethings just cost a lot of money to do it right.

 

[xtremek]

WOW.
.......... Somethings just cost a lot of money to do it right.

And some jobs should only be done the right way.

 

[xtremek]

And thanks for letting us in on some of this. It's cool.

 

[Orionrising]

Cool, so it's coming down in subassemblies in just a few picks. I have been watching a YouTube crane channel and the details of lifting are nuts.

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[Strouty]

Yup, sections.

 

[cbacres]

Reminds me of erecting/ breaking down Derrick sections on a drilling rig where I worked.

 

[Strouty]

One section left, then I have a big mess of steel to disassemble.

 

[casmurbax]

Strouty, thanks for filling me in about how you came about the equipment.

Interesting how that all it works with the companies.

When you hire the crane are you hiring a rigger too? Or do you have to hire a rigger as well? Are you responsible for the tools to disassemble? Hence the reason why you measured the bolt sizes the other day?

I meant to ask you, the other day when you climbed that was there anyone else there with you?

Do you own the other 2 towers in the picture as well?

 

[XJSuperman]

Look at all those Dock legs! Oh man!

 

[Strouty]

Don’t get me going!

CAS, will answer in detail later.

Done for today, went about 4 hours over the crane rate, should end up just about $6k

 

[xtremek]

Way to poke the bear, XJS.

 

[jakemac]

Look at all those Dock legs! Oh man!

Way to poke the bear, XJS.

You know we were all thinking it.



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[Strouty]

Enough dock talk.


I am going to see what I got for footage from the drone, i know the camera did something weird and kind of froze, so not sure if I lost the footage or not. Fingers crossed everything is there. Things went so slow, I ran through the batteries and we didn’t have much time to be swapping things around, so I really only used the drone for the initial setup and first pick. I really wish I could have done more, but I had to run things and the drone, made me a bit nervous, so the drone was put away.

 

[jack stand]

Any of those sections "road legal" width? Nice deer stand or platform for something.
Good job brother, bet that's a load off your mind.

 

[loganb]

Thanks for taking the time to share...cool to see.

Couple years ago there was an abandoned guy wire tower that was coming down back home; happened to be in the middle of a field and nothing close so they just put explosive charges on the guy anchors and watched it fall from a distance and picked up the debris from there. Nothing worth the cost and nothing nearby to damage to get a big enough crane in (at least 120 miles to the closest) to disassemble like this

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[Orionrising]

there is alot of just abandoned towers around here, including a bunch of old microwave relays from an old defense network.