Radio Towers Fall

The 3 tower site of KMVP 860AM Phoenix, Arizona was relocated - here's the destruction of the old towers.

[@awixxr6728]

When I was four I was watching this so much on my grandmas computer

[@Antibong]

So you’re like 10?

[@okietc1889]

@@Antibong fourteen. This video came out 10 years ago.

[@pedrodepacas4335]

ImaFuckkinDumbass is this beavis and butthead? Doofus and dummy?

[@awixxr6728]

@@Antibong Haha, maybe :)

[@awixxr6728]

@@okietc1889 Maybeee C:

[@norcalengineer]

Towers like this are not worth the hassle to keep if they aren't occupied by paying tenants. They must be lighted and monitored according to FAA standards (the electricity alone is very costly) and carefully maintained. Believe me, if there was a customer who wanted on these towers, they'd still be standing.

[@MrMacman98]

Sad to see them come down. Reminds me of the model radio towers we used to build out of K'nex as kids, all stopped when one fell on the television lol

[@scanman3915]

Makes me wanna cry. I want the leftovers... Still make me a good 60 foot tower

[@TexasRailfan2008]

scan Man heck yeah they didn’t even bend.

[@olivertaylor8788]

I agree,,should have gave you a couple hundred feet of it...

[@tommyb.6064]

Never use the leftovers of a tower that lived the stress of a fall. it creates micro cracks in the steel and more than often break welds... I would dismantle, inspect, fix an old tower but never use leftovers even if some section look straight.

[@aydanjim9642]

0:40 Holy was that Joker in the back round? I heard his signature laugh

[@TheCelsotube]

"No towers were harmed in the making of this video"

[@Camman010]

I have serviced radio broadcast towers like these in the past and that is the safest way to bring them down. I charge $400.00 per hr to climb them and change the light bulbs so look at the cost to have 2 linemen taking them down section by section plus a ground crew.

[@6h471]

As an extra class ham and VE for well over 30 yrs, I can just about imagine a group of hams standing around salivating over this if it was free for the taking. If the owners wanted scrap steel price for it however, it'd probably be a tough sell, as hams as a group are about the biggest chislers on earth.

[@davecarsley8773]

Heard shortly after recording stopped: _"Hey guys, I just noticed the station owner hand-wrote "and clean up" on our contract before signing it"_.

[@stephenburgess5109]

As a Radio Ham this makes me feel sad.

[@dogbarbill]

There's a LOT of us hams who would LOVE to have these sections for our own. N5NUK.

[@HugDeeznueces]

Bastards! Should have donated those to local ham clubs

[@jddr.jkindle9708]

Agreed - but the Liability is the Show-Stopper! ... Fun day with the guy and the cutting torch!

[@oldphart-zc3jz]

Everybody wants free stuff with someone else doing the work....

[@CedarPoint-jx9gz]

0:39 bruh who let a goose watch the tower collapse?

[@ve2zzz]

Too sad.... These towers didn't snap while falling, That indicates that they still were in pretty good shape and had many years of good service left.

[@JonCorvin]

It seems scary to think that you could drop one of these with a battery powered angle grinder in under 5 minutes.

[@nakayle]

This is very sad. Those towers could have been used to for ham repeaters, community broadcasters or cellphone sites. But now they are just scrap metal. :-(

[@smorrisby]

Yea I just loved that guys cackle. It made the video!

[@kc5vgw]

I'm surprised they held up to the fall as well as they did!!

[@maciejwisniewski760]

Nasza wieza w RCN Konstantynów zawaliła się sama w 1991 roku. Miała 646,38m wysokości. Nadawała pierwszy program Polskiego Radia na częstotliwości 225 kHz.

[@Richard_Green_143]

Sama to nie bardzo. Trochę jej majstry partacze pomogły ☹️

[@safeandsound2653]

These were am broadcast towers from the look of them.

[@vorkev1]

so sad I wish I hade a tower

[@bronkingrn]

do u have a tower yet?

[@TexasRailfan2008]

What about now?

[@washboardman7435]

How 'bout now?

[@thomasthomas43]

Wat about now?

[@TexasRailfan2008]

What about now?

[@ElmerFuddTheBeat]

My heart is bleeding.... 😢

[@TexasRailfan2008]

Poor, poor, beacon

[@sq7obj]

@wired4walleye i guess that safe disassembly would cost more than new towers ;)

[@closetmonkey89]

So all you have to do is cut one set of guidwires on those things, and then the whole thing comes down? Hehe... You just gave me a whole bunch mischievous ideas of what to do with a simple blowtorch at 2 am. -:)

[@TexasRailfan2008]

I- um...

[@rooh5825]

Really unfortunate, they could have been rebuilt into valuable water towers.

[@MaryStewart]

love to have gotten one of those!

[@IWRKOUT1]

What I find shocking is that all you have to do(correct me if I'm wrong) is get a blow torch thing and burn one support wire and the whole thing is gone . Just imagine some guy sneaking in and ssssssssss and "TIMBER!!!"

[@WARD5KUSTOMZ]

Not a bad way to destroy that antique twr beacon on top. Been wanting one for years. Needlessly destroyed

[@oldphart-zc3jz]

What is one worth in cash money vs paying someone to retrieve it?

[@WARD5KUSTOMZ]

@@oldphart-zc3jz years ago i could have got one from a climber for $175. He was retiring

[@goatskindreams]

id love 3 sections of it

[@x702kiddx]

Loved the "Top Gun" song at the end

[@jessicrino]

Steve! great video! may i use a few seconds in my educational video about the physics of tower deconstruction? you'll get credited. thanks!

[@Dinosorable]

Those are radio masts, not towers. See how they're supported by wires? That means they're masts. Towers are self-supported.

[@ukraine724]

this is why aliens dont talk to us

[@balancedaustralia]

What happened to this radio station?

[@motoforlyfe]

What will they do with them now

[@lancellot78]

Prosta robota. Nasz w Konstancinie upadł troszkę inaczej, żeby wyglądało na wypadek. Odczepiali odciągi w odpowiedniej sekwencji. Potem się chwalili, że czubek spadł przy podstawie.

[@maksuree]

that laugh when the first tower fell oh my god

[@garyflinn3989]

Most of the tower sections look intact and can be reused.

[@WiperTF2]

very well made video! good sync hehe :D

[@FlexSDR]

Look I agree about giving it away, but really who would actually take it down without damaging it? Also the possibility of someone getting hurt or perhaps death? Unfortunately this is probably the best and safest way. Believe me I was thinking the same way. Boy I would like to have these sections for a 1/4 wave 160 antenna!

[@marklowe7431]

Flex SDR could have easily been lowered with a winch and sold cheap or donated

[@jesusischrist1527]

Absolutely .... Everyone is mad about dropping Itike this but I bet none of them want to climb up and rig it and be the one using a gyn pole and winch line to take it down ... I've done it for thirteen years and when they're decommissioned it's usually because they're too unsafe to maintenance much less unsafe for the stress of unstacking ... Sure it would be great to take it down and give it to someone who could use it but who in their right mind is going to pay someone like me ten grand to take it down then give it away or sell it for less than the costs of dropping it .... So many comments on here about how they're dumb and jerks and being idiots for dropping it like this but I know for a fact if they were up top when the GYN pole started bending a leg in from being under to much stress trying to tack a stack off and feel the tower lean 5 or 6 feet and hear the sound of death moaning at them I bet they'd come screaming down (if they weren't locked up in fear ) and say never mind just drop it haha ... Forget unstacking just drop it .. a man's life isn't worth another man's hobby ...

[@andrewandrosow4797]

Are there eliminating AM broadcasting in the USA?

[@rickyshepherd4326]

What is the brand of tower?

[@Starbuckin]

I agree, so sad.

[@davidbusch9240]

WHAT A CRIME !!! That will make a grown man cry KR4AW

[@math6844]

Quack quack quack quack quack quack quack

[@TexasRailfan2008]

Math what

[@splortz]

How would you calculate the speed of the tip of the tower when it hits the ground?

[@skuzlebut82]

You would need to know the height of the tower. From that, you would need to calculate the circumference of a circle with the height as the radius. C=2pi times r. You would take your answer, and decide it by 4 because the top of the tower is falling the distance of one quarter the circumference of that circle. Watch the video and calculate the time it takes from when it starts to fall to the time the top hits the ground. Divide the quarter of the circumference by the time in seconds and you have a speed of feet per second.

[@skuzlebut82]

I'm going to assume the towers are 375 feet tall and take about 8 seconds for the top to hit the ground. That means it's average speed from start to finish is 73.62 feet per second or just over 50 miles per hour.

[@balistixmapping197]

Category: *Comedy* ME :> Whut?

[@stevearmstrong5324]

No jackalopes were harmed during this operation.

[@rubenmarquez23]

Are these safe to cut with a saw when they're down?

[@TexasRailfan2008]

Ruben Marquez sure

[@cdjsteve]

this is why you don;t hire amateurs to take down towers

[@micho-videos4673]

I would take it down and keep the tower for me.

[@hiramlofton9464]

I see history being destroyed. I hear as it's epitaph a clown laughing. You sir are not right. Heal thyself.

[@JordonDev]

are you ok

[@ZL2FAE]

It's a sad fact that the lowest tender gets the job. Destruction is more cost effective than salvage for reuse.

[@flaf1]

_i really feel bad for towers_

[@norcalengineer]

It costs a lot more money, and it's more dangerous, to take a tower down carefully for reuse than it does to knock it over and build a new one.

[@Saabpatrioten]

if they cut them all it had fallen the direction the wind was blown, they only cut one! the wire on the the other side pulls the tower towards that side and the other 2 is making the tower fall straght.. try to hold that still after cutting 3/4 wires

[@DC-nt5mu]

my favorite tower is tower #3

[@Techmatt167Official]

yeah but its fun watching! and if you ever heard of recycling, this scrap metal either can be reused to make something else or a new tower

[@gewglesux]

I dont get it.... they weren't hurting anyone! Tower lives matter!!

[@AKAtheA]

deconstruction without destruction would cost a fair bit of money...

[@andreashoppe1969]

Ah, so you used Zarathustra fanfare - VERY ORIGINAL!!!! I mean, no one has ever used it in their videos and movies, ever! :P

[@808pathfinder]

Am the 808th guy that hit the like, holy cow this only happen twice in my KZbin lifetime 🤙😀

[@TexasRailfan2008]

2:44 sad... I love beacons

[@TexasRailfan2008]

Edit 1:52

[@ABikerLife]

Ain't that the truth.. Tower space is hard to get

[@theabbottagencylive5210]

These look like relay towers from the old microwave network built my ATT

[@Landscape-zw5zh]

1:51 a broken Beacon

[@Aleziss]

all that to make a couple bucks of scrap metal... that would have been useful for ham radio operators, imagine how many towers you can make with all these and give those towers a second life...

[@1ordequis]

@29pu04 Actually I do I hold an Amateur Radio License, AKA Ham. CBer's hold no lisences and by law can only have a tower thats no more then 60 feet tall where a ham can go to 200 feet.

[@photocontrol]

@ljmike1204 Yes a big waste,I want one of those lights but they are really expensive, even used ones.

[@nakayle]

That's sad, and they're laughing about it. :-/

[@davecarsley8773]

RADIO ROGER Because*.... they're*... idiots. Idiot.

[@t57thetank]

Nathan Kayle cause you are an idiot

[@johnhoward3042]

Sad that an old tower was brought down, how stupid.

[@jesusischrist1527]

One of y'all climb up it and rig it and use a gyn pole and winch line system to take it apart ... Idiots??? Haha .... idiots???? Do any of you have the balls to do it ???? No!?!?!? I didn't think so you cowards!!!! I build them and work on them and cellular telecommunication towers and these are USUALLY,(Not always but USUALLY) decommissioned due to being unsafe to maintenance them anymore ... If you cowards know how they're built then you'd understand what I'm saying when I tell you that you do NOT want to be on one of these R.O.M. 16-18 towers riding a winch line on a gyn pole up and down them .... Idiots???? Hahaha yeah climb yalls butts up there and take it apart yourself and see how that goes for you hahaha ... I bet not one of you can even get up past the first flange much less to the top with a rope and block to rig it for the GYN.... Idiots?!?!?!? Psssss please it's people like y'all that get people killed so you can sit in your basement talking crap to truck drivers and harrass hard working people as they're out and about helping others during their everyday hard working life while you all play tough guy from the other end of a two way wanting people to risk their life for y'all and you call us stupid hahahaha.... Y'all have a good day

[@user-fj7oj3zp5p]

My Tv Screen is jammed

[@CombraStudios]

I want to be at the top during fall

[@sinewaveproductions9]

How about letting lightning strike them down and vaporise them like that?

[@56independent42]

not every video needs music. i want to hear the radio towers hit supersonic speeds.

[@Man0fMeans]

I want 3 sections!!!

[@ethanpeterson3435]

the 30 people that disliked this built those towers

[@EvylServalz]

LIKE A BOSS

[@gridarmorfix]

agreed!

[@hobbycornermk5415]

Why you've done this :o :o :o :( ??

[@MrBigtower]

about 250' ? most of the towers ive dropped buckle but they were andrew angle leg or rohn hollow legged tower and and over 400'

[@MrVirgo54]

What a bloody waste!

[@gravysnake78]

hay you ruined my fence

[@MsRangerman72]

your fence?

[@1L6E6VHF]

Easy. They built new towers on a closed landfill, closer to Phoenix, and with a new pattern that allowed them to actually be heard in Phoenix at night.

[@Gleb1986Kiev]

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" @Joker

[@jarettrobak]

not in bad shape for taking a fall like that

[@samuel19641]

Sure are easier coming down then going up !!!

[@marshalljimduncan]

Cutting torch

[@pinponelmono]

what a shame :(

[@CreeseDF]

Rip Beacon on the top

[@TowerClimber81]

You also could have placed them on Ebay, and I'm sure my fellow Hams would have bought them!

[@SteveHolsten]

I those towers collapse on themselves.

[@DL-rz6tw]

Why does every person in this video have the same laugh?

[@kinficher]

1:11 Hey wait look up here I'm changing the bulbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

[@DanielKE7UUM]

They could have been used for Ham radio!!

[@chipdoctorkent]

Why would you take it down in that manner it's worth good money

[@PacoOtis]

Speaking of men with E.D. here they are!

[@1ordequis]

@29pu04 well lets see that means you don't live in the USA if you have a CB license. anyways have your fun I am not going to argue with you over this anymore I agree its a shame that someone in Two way Radio hobby did not get to use em.

[@truck964]

What a waste of good equipment .

[@JohnLeslie68]

Such a shame. I know the old ones have to go. And this is the cheapest easiest way. Such a waste though. KC1ANI

[@hdyudu]

hate to be under it at the time