Tower Weld

Big Media · Post by **Big Media** » Thu May 24, 2007 2:13 pm

This is a photograph taken of a weld on a 1500 ft tower. Nice.

fearpeddler · Post by **fearpeddler** » Thu May 24, 2007 2:44 pm

that looks like dried bubble gum holding that on.

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Thu May 24, 2007 3:31 pm

Whose tower is that?
I want to stay away from it.

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Thu May 24, 2007 3:33 pm

Also, who manufactured the tower?
Stainless does not do work like that.
Nor Klein, or any responsable fabricator.

Big Media · Post by **Big Media** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:05 pm

This is the tower for WUPX Morehead/Lexington, owned by AT. It was erected by Central Tower. This tower has had various problems in the past. It collapsed while under construction with about 500 feet stacked. They basically started over again. Needless to say, there may have been a rush order.

As I understand it, there are several other examples of this kind of shoddy work on this tower. The above pic was taken at about the 60 foot mark.

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:15 pm

If I am not mistaken, Paxon bought a lot of Rohn towers.
This was about the time Rohn was having financial problems.

lastone · Post by **lastone** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:26 pm

This was clearly a "no one cares" problem. No 'normal' person associated with towers would have let this kind of thing get by. I would think this tower would be condemned until inspection and no insurer would touch it until their inspector checked it out.

Speaking of towers; is Pi-Rod still in business? I bought the XCC 430 ft tower from them in 78'.