Talk of The Villages Florida - Building a 1500' Tower

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Building a 1500' Tower

For those of you interested in how they construct those BIG TV towers here is a link showing the construction of a 1500' tower in Deland Fl.

http://www.wirelessestimator.com/VID...nstruction.wmv

This is from the ground. The yellow tower that you see on the left of the tower as it is being built is called a gin pole and it moves up the tower as it is built. The gin pole is the actual crane that hauls up the tower sections to the top. A tower this size the the workers will ride the ball at the end of the cable up the tower to the work area. I am not sure if it is OHSA legal to do that but I have seen it done.

Geeze...that's amazing! My oldest son builds cell phone towers in Arizona and often sends me pictures from the top...I get dizzy just looking at them!

Scared me s***less just watching it!