My son, Chris, and I installed my tower back in 1993. In 1998, I had to move the northeast guy cables to provide clearance for a shop addition, so I installed an elevated guy point. When I put the backup anchor in, there was no tree here. 32 years later, you can barely see the turn buckle exposed from the tree that swallowed it! Additionally, after the big rains recently, a spare guy plate arose from the ground, where it had disappeared in 1998. :-)
Earlier in the year, I helped a friend, K4WGD, remove a tower from a location that will ultimately be reinstalled at his QTH. I finally got around to editing a zillion photos down to the basics. I'm the guy on the tower in these pics. It was a 110' commercial Motorola tower, very similar to a Rohn tower in design. There were several antennas, feed line, guy cables, anchors, turnbuckles, etc that all had to be removed. We also discovered the based had failed at some point in time, and it became very unstable below the lowest guy cables and temporary support had to be installed during the disassembly. My buddy was the ground crew, he ran the tractor, tied and untied parts, etc. Due to early summer storms popping up almost every day, it took the better part of the week to get it disassembled and clean up the site. These photos aren't in exact order, but you'll get the idea.
