Summer Project

During the summer this year I was given a tower (Rohn 25G) and antenna (A3S w/40) but the catch was that I had to take it all down. One might think this was pretty easy, but it turned out different, and a very big learning experience. This June was nothing but rain and I wasn't too happy to be climbing in the rain, so I put it off. Additionally we had the club field day and steak fry and my own projects and bad weather days. But over the course of weeks and months I finally got the whole thing down. All it took was muscle, full body harness, 2 positioning lanyards, 1 fall arrest, many extra pullies, gloves, boots with steel shanks, tool belt, tools, lanyards for the tools since they fall hard, ropes (darcon), climbing clips, gin pole, gin pole pully, gin pole clamps, gin pole lower pulley, electric 4 1/2" grinder (rusted bolts), nerves of steel, and a friend to bounce ideas off. But that's all.

I didn't have much if any of the above and it was a long process procuring these things. I could have purchased a new tower for the money and time invested in getting this whole thing down. But it was very interresting to see what it takes, and I can always use these tools and equipment to put this tower back up at some time in the future (and help friends like the KW7A entry). So by no means was it a waste. But sometimes "FREE" is just a lot more expensive than I anticipated.