It's amazing how something so large can sound like a single sheet of metal being bent when it collapses.

@anders5611

2 жыл бұрын

It's not large look at the end of the video

@multisplace3783

2 жыл бұрын

@@anders5611 I meant large as in, like, tall.

@LilXancheX

2 жыл бұрын

@@multisplace3783 it’s probably louder up close. Just sounds like a sheet of metal cuz it’s so far away

@multisplace3783

2 жыл бұрын

@@LilXancheX You're probably right. Still sounds cool, though.

@GrooveScorpion

2 жыл бұрын

I guess cos it is literally a few sheets of metal.

It's a rule on KZread that any video depicting something being destroyed, no matter how rotten, dilapidated, or dangerous, will have a comments section full of people whining about how it should have been sold/given to them.

@psychomom7158

6 жыл бұрын

i could've used that tower to pick up shortwave radio... SW antennas are expensive, especially tower-type ones. they should've sent it to me

@luwado

6 жыл бұрын

so true

@th24kid17

6 жыл бұрын

Have seen one of these come down unintentionally during a storm, extremely high winds during severe storm no damage done except to tower itself. Was suspected a small tornado.

@gunitonwax

6 жыл бұрын

lol how much you think all that is worth thow

6 жыл бұрын

tralt135 yea I agree

"So, how long have you been working for the radio station?" "I don't, I was just passing by and saw it, we should probably get the f**k outta here."

@SuperCheekys

7 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha... that made me chuckle :)

@gunniesack

7 жыл бұрын

tryithere that is funny

@neonflashsparkotron5435

6 жыл бұрын

tryithere The best thing is this is from Oklahoma city and i live close to those radio towers there

@jamesb.9472

6 жыл бұрын

no one said that.

@jamesb.9472

6 жыл бұрын

ok ok.

I love how he’s telling us how to do it like we’re about to go raise hell for the ham radio guys

Guy wires are used to keep the tower straight vertical and to give it structural support. If you notice the tower is very thin and towers like these are not designed to be able to stand up straight without help. Guy wires pull down on the tower at specific locations to keep equal downward pressure across all sections of the tower. This makes it very, very strong and able to hold antennas and climbers and stand against strong winds.

@cesarislas7130

2 жыл бұрын

9 years ago

@Edithmedjdoub

2 жыл бұрын

@@cesarislas7130 4 months ago

@jimbobf8017

Жыл бұрын

I always thought they were called guide wires. Maybe I'm wrong.

@fbidenflagguy

Жыл бұрын

They are called guide wires. This hill jack OP is wetodded.

@snailsaredumb9412

Жыл бұрын

@@cesarislas7130 1 year ago

Imagine what the Warsaw Radio Mast would have looked like when it collapsed.

@davidcurry5306

9 жыл бұрын

Trust me it WARSAWESOME!!!!!

@rsmck

6 жыл бұрын

lol

@GN10Gaming

5 жыл бұрын

would have been fucking crazy

@1982bored

5 жыл бұрын

Literally what I'm on here looking for

@djadammm

5 жыл бұрын

What is Warsaw?

2:50 sounded cool.

@guv8426

6 жыл бұрын

He Man I thought it was a jet

@waynebais1783

3 жыл бұрын

@@guv8426 Me too

@heavythegreywolf

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine being 25m from it

Guess they didn't like the music from that station!!!!

@cincinnatislider

5 жыл бұрын

Too many commercials.

@marcamoo8122

5 жыл бұрын

cincinnatislider ha lol You make me laugh! Achevement unlocked You made me laugh 😂

@dwightstewart7181

4 жыл бұрын

Very funny. However, a 200' tower wouldn't reliably reach a range much further than 35-50 miles. The station likely replaced this tower with a much taller one to reach a larger audience.

@nicename2859

4 жыл бұрын

Dwight Stewart r/wooooooosh

@diamondofficial758

3 жыл бұрын

Im le 200th like

Crap, when you zoomed in while waiting for the tower to fall, I almost shat my pants. I thought it was falling towards you!

@rijstevlaai6283

3 жыл бұрын

Yes me to that scared the sh.t out of me

@measlesplease1266

Жыл бұрын

Lmao fr

@RedRatch

Жыл бұрын

I ran to the comments looking for this

Still wondering about the term "guy" wire. For years I have called it a "guide" wire.

@dustinf49

5 жыл бұрын

Same. I clicked on the video to see if anyone was making the correction, but found nothing but your comment. I was also thinking that at least a feww hundred people out of 1,888,464 would have called it out by now. "Guy-wires" Who would have thunk it?

@ioccatonyz1

5 жыл бұрын

I always called them "sky" wires now I know better.

@jonnie2bad

5 жыл бұрын

@@dustinf49 Look up "guy" (noun) in the dictionary. Congrats on making an ass of yourself on a public forum for the rest of eternity.

@bobertmcboberty1385

5 жыл бұрын

Jon Posadny he could just delete his comment and your remaining comment would make you the ass for all eternity hahaha

@Dan007UT

5 жыл бұрын

Same here

For the people complaining about how much of a waste this was and how somebody could have come in and taken it down properly, by the time you paid for enough liability insurance to make the property owner's lawyer happy and spent the time and energy needed to take this down properly, you would more than likely have more invested in this old tower before you even got it to your house than it would have cost to buy the tower sections brand new.

@moultriemanicmechani

8 жыл бұрын

+bayouratt283 someone with some sense, thank you!! it's impossible to tell in the video the condition of this old tower, it's unlikely it was worth saving, by the comment he made about just a small amount of damage to the building , they may have planned on replacing it anyway

@BattleshipOrion

6 жыл бұрын

that was proper the other way was kaboom

@iMRM-ez8of

5 жыл бұрын

the comment right below this makes this hilarious

@tetrabromobisphenol

5 жыл бұрын

That's not true for a tower of this height. That tower cost $4k new. Removal by a bonded contractor would be about half of that. So this was indeed the wasteful option.

@peter_piper3004

3 жыл бұрын

Wait this isn’t the usual way to take down a radio mast? It seems efficient.

looks easy...might make this my new friday night thing..

@kodygeorge9305

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that lol but already knew there pretty easy to make fall

@sarahgirl4382

4 жыл бұрын

lol 69 likes

@theunknownandunsolved6963

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

FUUUUUUCK man @2:31 when you zoom in it looks as if the tower is about to land on you man. I caught myself jumping out of my chair

@JimBob_Joe77

5 жыл бұрын

I wasnt really all that worried.

@swaggyjohn5539

4 жыл бұрын

@@JimBob_Joe77 woah chill out matt you've enough bravery for all of us

@carsoncoolguy

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@Reggie-The-Dog

2 жыл бұрын

That would have made a much more interesting video.

why did they destroy this tower, people in africa could have eaten that!

@DavidLee-id3lf

9 жыл бұрын

they better have big stumics

@chloway420

8 жыл бұрын

+David Lee stomachs*

@DavidLee-id3lf

8 жыл бұрын

FallingInSuicideSilence thanks

@kmc8175

7 жыл бұрын

Dangeruzz Gaming they have to tale it down so they can eat it

@BattleshipOrion

6 жыл бұрын

your stupid

Only in Battlefield 4

@flow-_-frost-_-932

6 жыл бұрын

Swagner 72 yep

@delrasshial7200

4 жыл бұрын

@@flow-_-frost-_-932 well done, creeks aren't that devourered. You shouldn't have asked johnn

Thanks for the instructions! I am going to go out and cut down radio station towers now. Looks fun!

@briansimcoe9119

Жыл бұрын

Bring thermite.

Cutting the cables one at a time presents the problem of loading the remaining cables beyond their strength limits. The reason this matters is they may break, and a break anywhere except right at the bottom will send the cable ends whipping around. Anybody who has ever seen a cable whip doesn't want to be within range. Nobody was hurt, this time.

@gjsrky

Жыл бұрын

You win the GENIUS of the day. Thanks for your engineering input. 😆

@doodoo66

Жыл бұрын

Let me guess. Your the national tower destruction OSHA inspector and you have spent countless hours overseeing towers falling in all kinds of conditions. Or do you sit at a desk and do math. Stick to calculators and protractors. Let the county people actually do the things.

@ThomasJones-ij6hv

Жыл бұрын

@T.J. Kong no, but I assume you do? 😂✌️. But seriously thank you for the explanation.

@quarterpanel

Жыл бұрын

@T.J. Kong That makes clear sense. We did one a long time ago where I cut the whole guy anchor releasing all guy wires at once. It was a 225' Larger Guy Tower and it dropped like a tree. What is the difference between cutting one guy wire at a time vs. all / the whole anchor? Just curious I have one to drop soon.

"WZAZ: Where Disco Lives Forever!"

1972 while stationed on Okinawia in the Army Signal Corps, we had to take down a few dozen towers left over from the Korean War and because Vietnam was slowing down many of those towers. Most were Grangers and the all had a "ujoint" base so we had only one side we could cut. But we cut the guys starting on the lower guy and the head guy last so the towers fell in a straight line and not all buckled up and it made stacking the sections easier as we cut them. Yeah, getting paid to do cool stuff was well worth the 3 years I put in!!

Caspian border (?)

@gamingchente5342

10 жыл бұрын

Where are the other buildings then

@mkirigin11

6 жыл бұрын

AgiBla98 thank god I'm not the only one that thought this was like battlefeild

@neeltheeelkamal5150

6 жыл бұрын

AgiBla98 need some trees

@michaelweston409

6 жыл бұрын

Nah one in caspian border is real and located in Turkmenistan it is one of the tallest structures on earth

@TheFilmMixer101

6 жыл бұрын

AgiBla98 lol

2:30 my heart sank because I thought it was falling towards you

@thanos2666

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@Reggie-The-Dog

2 жыл бұрын

That would have made a much more interesting video.

*OH SHIT, WE LEFT JERRY UP THERE!*

@Dustywitch

5 жыл бұрын

its ok, he came down too

@jerryrigsit5400

4 жыл бұрын

Seriously I'm ok... landed on my head

This is the old KPAY tower system in Chico California. KHSL-AM was on 1290 using this two tower array and then they moved 1290 to the KPAY-AM 1060 array. 1060 went dark and 1290 was moved to the 1060 towers. Basically this is located at Bruce Road and Remington in Chico California...or rather was located.

Watching the guy try to turn those old corroded turnbuckles without tools and without gloves convinced me the crew were in over their heads. Very lucky no one was hurt.

@C.D.J.Burton

6 жыл бұрын

+Tyler D. what you would use wire cutters? I'd go with the bolties that's thick cable not wire. The guys being in over their heads because he's using his hands. I wouldn't say nor support that argument.

@Packitagain.

6 жыл бұрын

Ralph Averill Over their heads? Its taking down a radio antenna not like you need a phd to do that.

@deezet9518

6 жыл бұрын

It did come on to me as a bit strange, like some people were passing by, saying to eachother: I know what we should do today, let's bring down the first radio tower we see!

@C.D.J.Burton

6 жыл бұрын

Tyler D. I was saying the same as you

@somewhitedude01

6 жыл бұрын

And what do u do for a ivig mister know-it-all? Push paper sell cars. Security guard....mind your own job..not someone else's

I did tower work 36D20 in the Army and we deactivated a lot of towers in the old Granger line on Okinawa, not Ron25s. We cut the guys from the inside out to the head guy and the towers always fell in a nice straight line but they were built a bit sturdier than a -25. But still a good drop.

@Icepacalapse

6 жыл бұрын

My brother in law deactivated most of the Omega stations.

@_dave4460

5 жыл бұрын

i saw some of that work while at naha and kadena early 70s...

"Where should I cut?" The northern equivalent to "Hold my beer" that is so prevalent down here in the south.

How you know the engineer is a hillbilly: he uses a hay bale as protection

2:30 when you zoomed in I thought the tower was falling on you

@MattBonk991

3 жыл бұрын

same

@waynebais1783

3 жыл бұрын

@@MattBonk991 Same

@Reggie-The-Dog

2 жыл бұрын

That would have made a much more interesting video.

Now Oklahoma doesn’t have a radio station. Good job!

@rich.wishes

4 жыл бұрын

Strange Brew who cares about Oklahoma

im not sure what prompted me to want to look up falling towers. im fascinated by tall radio towers and i just got the idea of wanting to see one fall just because they're so interesting, a feat of human engineering, they're so hypnotically tall. :D every time i see one of these tall radio towers on the road, i stare at it as we're driving past.

@RokiahBrandon-gw4qp

7 ай бұрын

If your interested in radio towers and TV towers you definitely need to watch the movie fall. Two girls climb a abandoned TV tower that is 2000 feet tall called the b67 TV tower and the ladder falls so they get styck up there

"There's the only damage right there, just a little scratch" meanwhile entire radio tower has collapsed

Really surprised that it didn't fall after the first guy line was cut. And it was surprisingly stable after losing two.

Human mouse trap. I've worked in this industry since 82' and it still scares me .

No engineer on earth can bring down a tower by cutting the guys and not have it be destroyed. If someone wants to save an erect tower, it's dismantled by a climbing crew and lowered by crane or gin pole. Cutting a guy is done when the tower needs to be brought down cheaply and quickly.

I love it the guy that doesn't have a clue giving directions on the correct way to do it!

The guy filming this is a real genius!!

No PPE and I'm suprised they didn't throw a heavy blanket over the cable to slow any whiplash.

@obfuscated3090

5 жыл бұрын

They know where cable goes when cut, and if you are outside the possible whip zone it simply CANNOT reach the worker. If you are inside the whip zone you're incompetent. They weren't.

Can you imagine how hard that wire whips the ground when the tower lands??

This is clearly a pro at the best just doin what he does mayne

When i was a kid I was always told that there was a prison under those towers.

Rest in peace all the victims who lost their lifes on this tragic day then the antenna collapsed. Never Forget

@BattleshipOrion

6 жыл бұрын

who da fuck cares no one died

@BattleshipOrion

6 жыл бұрын

im alive aint i

@vacciniumaugustifolium1420

6 жыл бұрын

Worst than 9/11 XD

@johnwhitsel2101

6 жыл бұрын

Thoughts and Prayers!

@sir_john_hammond

5 жыл бұрын

Don't you dare ever make fun of or shoot off your conspiracies about this antenna collapse, I lost 12 friends to it that day.

2:31 I thought it was falling onto him at first

@Reggie-The-Dog

2 жыл бұрын

That would have made a much more interesting video.

Nicely done

Agee with you on the single point. I have 2 x 95m masts to drop next week and I am planning to use this method. One cut to release all 5 stays at the same time.

*"You were banned for griefing"*

I can hear it now,,,,”Agnes,did up pay the damn tv bill??, because I can’t get a damn thing on it now!” LOL

@TheyTookStrawb

4 жыл бұрын

Why so many commas

Love that "whoosh" sound as it falls.

Thanks... Now I have a fascination with Radio Towers.

Being a old DXer, I find it sad as well. Oh the glory of a 200' tower!

You could also rename this video to Radio Tower Collapses After Guy Cuts Wires and it would still make sense

Here to show you some support 👍

Wow, that looked so professional. Got a guy cutting metal tension wires with out safetly goggles or gloves. I was waiting for this to become a faces of death video

2:30 Gosh that freaked me out

There was a radio station in Florence, SC that had their tower mysteriously taken down by this method in wee hours of the morning one night. They never did find out who did it. The station was in financial trouble and the suspicion was that the owner did it or had somebody do it to collect on the insurance. It couldn't ever be proven, though. This was before everybody and his brother and kid sister had cameras set up everywhere.

@SerenityMae11

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't doubt it. People in that part of the world are so fucking retarded and bass-ackwards

@b1blancer1

Жыл бұрын

@@SerenityMae11 Uh, I was born and raised in "that part pf the world" and still live here. Your prejudice and intolerance are showing. You might want to tuck that back in.

@servicetrucker5564

Жыл бұрын

@@b1blancer1 Always some crap going down in Florence

We used to "un-stack" radio towers that were in good shape all the time until we took an Allied tower down in Alice Tx. As we started digging up the anchors, 1 had rusted completely through, and we have no idea how it didn't pull out of the ground. After that, no matter what condition, we cut them all down.

I know its a Radio Tower made of steel but i got the sudden urge to yell TIMBER!

I have dreams that I fall from these things all the time

Gloves and hard hat?

@yungsmorc6462

5 жыл бұрын

Won't you at all getting hit by these variables. Debris yeah but the rest = too bad, dead

guy wire expert/lawyer here, that was awesome

When he zooms in at 2:30 I originally thought the tower was falling in his direction.

@Reggie-The-Dog

2 жыл бұрын

That would have made a much more interesting video.

The turnbuckles will turn much better with the treads wire brushed off and oiled.

@ioccatonyz1

5 жыл бұрын

@Roy G Biv Obvious for some, not all...

He's a legend by making this video 4:20 minutes long

@izzzzzz6

Жыл бұрын

I think that was the entire point. I don't see much more point to this video.

Here's where the name comes from... A guy (probably from Dutch gei, "brail") is a line (rope) attached to and intended to control the end of a spar on a sailboat.

3:28 this sounds like my cousins swing set😂 the quick "dam dam dam dadam"

Yeah mine kinda bends to the left before the tip too. It's okay it's actually common.

They are called GUY wires.

That zoom in after the second cable did freak me out a little! ;-D

Life after people style!

What would I give for having an antenna tower like this, I would be Master of DX.

when hee zoome in i was like OMG hahahaha

That Guy is giving A Tutorial as if we all have a tower to fall in our backyard😂

@nohchi950

Жыл бұрын

Hello,my friends

When toppling an overhead structure plan 2 routes of egress at 90° from each other. Clear all obstructions and debris from the paths and practice disengaging with the tool and evacuating both routes. Be aware of any nearby targets that could be struck and also fall over extending the range of the kill zone.

@briansimcoe9119

Жыл бұрын

Stand near the tower when the guy wires are cut and film with a cell phone. Welcome your new followers. Then Jesus.

When he zoomed in, I thought the tower was coming right at him

@Reggie-The-Dog

2 жыл бұрын

That would have made a much more interesting video.

Looks like the the guy taking down the tower didn't really know what he was doing...

@COCOLEAF1169

7 жыл бұрын

haha and they call him an engineer

@rossr100

6 жыл бұрын

But he'd "bin thunkn' bout it" what could go wrong...

@manuell3505

5 жыл бұрын

Like it's complicated...

@JR-os1dg

5 жыл бұрын

Got it down tho and didn't die

@manuell3505

5 жыл бұрын

ike fun - how cute, another usesles internetwanker. Do you like your own comment? It's very important to mention.

200 ft looked so tall in this. I could only imagine this with a 2000 ft one.

Alternative title : Pranking the repair guy

video starts 2:00

@Bendew

7 жыл бұрын

Balys thanks

@camohara4207

7 жыл бұрын

Balys actually if you look closely the video starts at 0:00

@Bendew

7 жыл бұрын

Cam Ohara If you look closely, you can see that you don't understand the joke.

@camohara4207

7 жыл бұрын

PenguinToast you're a fucking idiot. Mine was a joke. Obviously it's out of your intelligence range

@anthonydixon7381

6 жыл бұрын

Balys w

The fact that this video is 4:20 long makes it so much better

@margaretcockburn1330

3 жыл бұрын

funni number! 🤯🤯

Why did this have all the signs of "....hold my beer, watch this..."?

Those wire cutting sounds make me anxious

Wow, I expected a lot more noise from all that metal falling. Too bad you lost the tower though..

vsause anyone?

@grammarnazi8187

8 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@joshriles84

7 жыл бұрын

DarkFuSiOnZ178 used to till I had to pay for it

@sndjdktnrjsj5978

6 жыл бұрын

Vsauce micheal here

@OptimusPurp

6 жыл бұрын

mvp

@chad_bro_chill

6 жыл бұрын

Cancer incarnate

Now you had no Internet Good job

9 Years later and you still get views on this video :) greetings from Germany

@fritz46

13 күн бұрын

Make that 14 years.

One could have sold the sections for a minimum of $50.00 each. The guy wiring is virtually scrap, since it was used. eBay values could have exceeded $75.00 per section. Now it's worth what $20/ton?

@steveweiss3552

10 жыл бұрын

If it's an AM site, there is thousands of pounds of copper in the ground they could recover.

@scottbailey1560

9 жыл бұрын

Steve Weiss It's probably already been stolen. The duggies need copper in the ground to steal so they can buy meth and coke. Some broadcast engineers won't listen, but that's what's wrong with AM Stations with a series feed tower, no ground radials and they are just now understanding how the illegal drug world works.

@1L6E6VHF

7 жыл бұрын

Steve Weiss looks like an FM site to me, with the evenly spaced antennas at the top (which focus the station's signal at the horizon). A tower can be FM and AM at the same time, but AM towers have an insulator at the base. Most AM stations have more than one tower - as many as twelve!

@nickg5081

5 жыл бұрын

heck just the cost of a couple guys per hour to disassemble the tower outweighs the profit of trying to resell those sections.

you cant pull that off without knowing what youre doing. sure they dont play the part very well but god damn they nailed it

"behind this hay bale..for safety" lols!

Well played.

Engineer be buggered, NO Engineer in his or Her right mind would ever take down a perfectly reusable tower like this Disassemble and sell 10 times the scrap value all I can say is they are bloody idiots. Such a waste

@mozzmann

10 жыл бұрын

***** I know more than you might think Sir, and destroying a perfectly good tower rather than offer it for sale to Amateur Radio Operators or businesses that may require a tower for their own radio communications or for removal is just stupid. Now I don't know if it was offered for sale and removal or not and literally been left with a clean site. I feel that there would have been someone some place that would have recycled that tower as a tower and not scrap. Info :- When small Local Satellite TV broadcasting came on line where I lived in the 80's the main TV transmitters were in some cases 250 Km away and big TV reception tower's were the norm, but with the advent of the rebroadcasting they were not needed so I purchased many for scrap value and removed them for next to nothing. Thus for the last years of the 80's and into the early 90's I removed tower's like this from sites and sold them to Ham radio Operators and commercial interests way less than they could buy new ones IF they could find a seller and I made good money so just dropping and selling for scrap value, that is a crying waste.

@JennyEverywhere

9 жыл бұрын

mozzmann Worse, he calls the guy wires "guide wires". Never trust a so-called "engineer" who doesn't know what the pieces he's working on are actually called.

@bayouratt283

9 жыл бұрын

mozzmann This is the litigious world we live in today. It's getting harder and harder to find people that will allow you to take towers like this down the right way unless you have the liability insurance required to do it. They would rather take it down like this in a controlled, albeit destructive, manner and scrap it than risk a multimillion liability lawsuit if the person attempting to take it down is injured or killed in an accident.

@Xerox1911

9 жыл бұрын

+mozzmann You do realize that it's not the engineers that are taking it down right? I mean they are LITERALLY taking it down, but they're just doing a job. The company told them to take it down. Don't call them idiots if they have no choice in the matter.

It's just a prank, bro.

If this was done illegally these guys are real smart to videotape it

What country radio station was it ?

WHY WOULD YOU DESTROY SUCH A BEUTIFULL CREATURE?

@BattleshipOrion

6 жыл бұрын

not a animal

@KingStr0ng

5 жыл бұрын

@@BattleshipOrion r/woosh

@rogonislocusts3359

5 жыл бұрын

@@KingStr0ng we arent on reddit shut the fuck up people like you are fucking obnoxious

@rogonislocusts3359

5 жыл бұрын

Not Today No, that wasn’t a whooosh. You clearly don’t understand what that means.

2:52 - "fwhoooooooo"

End of Portal 2 = this video's beginning.

Our CPT in Afghanistan thought we could lower one with the wires. Thing almost fell on my homie Lopez 😂

Are there any girl wires to cut??

Look how long the video is #SMOKEWEEDEVERYDAY

@Fearjames

8 жыл бұрын

Shut up

@DetectiveDerpy

8 жыл бұрын

+D1 Bound no

@parkerproffitt3012

8 жыл бұрын

420!! I'm sorry

@weedster6793

8 жыл бұрын

get a life

@Levienci

7 жыл бұрын

hue

now it’s Recommended for everyone lol

"How many pounds are on this". Enough to severe you all in half that's how much