It's always been this easy. It's just an antenna. It can still broadcast, just not as far. That's why they're in the mountains mostly. This was probably a private channel radio. Companies will put them up for their field techs like a public utility, department of forestry, etc. I used to have to service my companies tower up in the Saddleback mountains in Southern California. The companies who erect these can replace them pretty easily. These things are usually 4x4 accessable only.
Meanwhile I have one in my basement I've used maybe twice ever. It cuts great but I almost always have a different tool more suited to the job at hand. What do you use it on?
There are individual sections bolted together, but they’re not designed to be strong enough to support the whole tower. In the cable stayed design, the stability comes from gravity and tension on the guy wires. If it starts to fall over the bolts between sections of towers fail and it crumples down instead of falling like a tree.
There are generally 3 sets of guy wires on the type of tower, at 60 degrees offset. The tension of the wires pull the structure down to the ground to keep the tower vertical. The wires are all relieved of some of there tension, then the one side is released. The remaining tension on the 2 sets still attached pulls the tower away from the wire that got cut, usually (and if the tension was correct) only the first few sections fall sideways, while gravity helps the higher sections fall straight down, more or less. Hope this is an adequate explanation.
As soon as it starts to fall it does pull a bit you can see it. But its not moving fast, and as soon as its moved a few feet the cables are no longer in tension so there is no force to keep pulling it. The other thing is that its not a single rigid member (gigity) So it does not have the stiffness and strength to rotate around a point. So if you watch you can see each of the bolted sections kind of do there own thing.
It's being held up by 3 cables, not 4. As it's collapsing you can see the triangles between sections. Since the cables are 120 deg apart, the 2 that are not cut are both partially pulling in the opposite direction of the cut cable, causing it to tip in that direction.
Reminds me of that dumb scene in Prometheus when all Charlize’s character has to do to avoid the falling pillar is run to one side and she fails to do that. So aggravating.
Holy crap that looks dangerous
He have his helmet, all fine
Based on the way it collapsed, it was designed to collapse as safely as possible. As long as you're not directly underneath it you're fine.
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And way too easy
That's the way of big heavy industry and construction.
Oh snap!
bro…
Is that really all it takes to take down a radio tower? That... seems like information you would want to keep a little bit more secret.
It's always been this easy. It's just an antenna. It can still broadcast, just not as far. That's why they're in the mountains mostly. This was probably a private channel radio. Companies will put them up for their field techs like a public utility, department of forestry, etc. I used to have to service my companies tower up in the Saddleback mountains in Southern California. The companies who erect these can replace them pretty easily. These things are usually 4x4 accessable only.
Bout to lose a whole bunch of towers that don’t even contain 5g radios
I'd imagine they took off the bolts in between the sections or else it would have fallen straight over, instead of collapsing.
Calling this a tower is giving it more credit than it deserves. It's a
For once, a vertical video was a good choice.
And it's just that easy lol
Some idiot with $200 will take down 4g for a major city now
My Milwaukee 6232 band saw is probably my favorite tool to use.
Meanwhile I have one in my basement I've used maybe twice ever. It cuts great but I almost always have a different tool more suited to the job at hand. What do you use it on?
Why does the top 2/3 stay relatively verticle while the bottom sections fall at an angle?
There are individual sections bolted together, but they’re not designed to be strong enough to support the whole tower. In the cable stayed design, the stability comes from gravity and tension on the guy wires. If it starts to fall over the bolts between sections of towers fail and it crumples down instead of falling like a tree.
Tower companies hate this one trick....
Now show us how to take down billboards
I think I have some understanding of the physics but can someone help further clarify/correct me?
There are generally 3 sets of guy wires on the type of tower, at 60 degrees offset. The tension of the wires pull the structure down to the ground to keep the tower vertical. The wires are all relieved of some of there tension, then the one side is released. The remaining tension on the 2 sets still attached pulls the tower away from the wire that got cut, usually (and if the tension was correct) only the first few sections fall sideways, while gravity helps the higher sections fall straight down, more or less. Hope this is an adequate explanation.
As soon as it starts to fall it does pull a bit you can see it. But its not moving fast, and as soon as its moved a few feet the cables are no longer in tension so there is no force to keep pulling it. The other thing is that its not a single rigid member (gigity) So it does not have the stiffness and strength to rotate around a point. So if you watch you can see each of the bolted sections kind of do there own thing.
It's being held up by 3 cables, not 4. As it's collapsing you can see the triangles between sections. Since the cables are 120 deg apart, the 2 that are not cut are both partially pulling in the opposite direction of the cut cable, causing it to tip in that direction.
Very cool! Thank you for sharing
Had a freind that did this years ago for a prank before portable band saws. It only takes a pair of bolt cutters
"Prank" lol
Well, now dick heads know how to do that easily.
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It’s crazy to think that anyone with a bandsaw can just go around destroying radio towers. There are some crazy people out there who probably would.
“Yeah, and I was thinking maybe we could go out someti-“
Ferb, i know what we’re gonna do today
Hypothetically, you could do some real damage if you were motivated and a major dick
God damn it we have to prop it back up and do the shot over again. Bob had his lense cover on his camera and missed the shot! SOB!
Trust science!
This is fine if you just plan to scrap it. If you want to reuse the tower you take it down section by section.
Really??? Holy! Thanks for the heads up!
OSHA would like to know you location
Great idea for anarchists
Fm 99 wnor tower?
I wonder how far the red section buried it’s self in the dirt.
Anyone know what the worst case scenario for this is?
Some dumb ass is leaning on the bit they are cutting off and gets dragged?
Well now that I know this, I can’t stop thinking about how easy it would be for me to bring a network to its knees.
Milwaukee real nice like
For a second I thought this would be a Far Cry gif 😂😂
Too bad the trusses were destroyed and unusable for another, shorter, tower.
“Ther she goos, ther she goos” Must be Pennsylvania
Haha I know that guy.
That was fuckin cool.
Me.
Probbbly shouldn’t show people how to do this 😊
I'm so speechless how the final collapse cleared that small building by inches.
Reminds me of that dumb scene in Prometheus when all Charlize’s character has to do to avoid the falling pillar is run to one side and she fails to do that. So aggravating.
Dun dun dun da dah dah
Could have had the tower down faster if he used a Makita.
Take it back
Good thing he was wearing a hard hat.
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Battlefield vibes
redditspeedbot
Kind of horrifying
That's really satisfying to watch.
Just like gravel in minecraft.
Battlefield vibes
Damn thing used to always down my jet back at caspian
Lot of radio tower demos on the net recently. Why knock em all down? There's absolutely no possible use for them?
Probably old/obsolete technology
Why would anyone post this on the internet lol
Doing this without a permit is probably terrorism lol
It’s that’s easy guys
Like those animations of squishy things that aren’t supposed to be squishy
These feel like instructions. Thanks Reddit will update soon
This reminds me of Just Cause 2
That looks scary easy
The sounds of it gaining momentum is cool
Ferb I know what we’re gonna do today
Somewhere at that moment, a ham operator felt a strong disturbance in the force.
We’re gonna do a little trolling