The fencing will be replaced
as soon as the building has been installed
The building arrives
The crane prepares to lift
Inching onto the foundation
Touchdown
All of the building systems
are already installed.
The communications equipment
will be installed at a later date
Crews work on the finishing
touches to the foundation
Video of the installation
(click the play button)
Tower crews working about 200' in
the air installing the assemblies.
The ice bridge provides a safe path
for the feed line from the
transmitter building to the tower.
ISI crews assemble an antenna on a
mounting arm on the ground.
The assembly is then lifted to the
correct level and mounted to the
tower.
A close up of the microwave and
antenna arrays. Ice Bridges
above the microwave dishes help
protect them from falling ice.
Sidney Tower Site
A view looking west along the
access road being installed
Looking south toward the
south guy anchor point
A portion of the rebar cage
at the tower base before concrete was poured
ISI owner, Ronnie Romano,
right, pours the concrete
for the base of the tower
Ron Yori of ISI marks
concrete samples as the foundation is poured for the tower
METCAD Director Rick
Kallmayer surveys the site. The concrete samples are visible on
the generator pad
The building, similar to the
one installed at the west site, will have equipment installed over the
next few months
A finished guy anchor awaits
connection to the tower structure
A very cold and damp day met
the tower crews as they began construction of this tower in November,
2006. Here, we see the first section being lifted by the crane
The first section is guided
into place on the center pin
Tower crew receiving the next
section of the 300 foot tower
As sections were placed on
the stack, the guy wires were pulled out to the anchor points and
tensions set. This laborious process took extra time and effort
due to the wet, muddy ground conditions in the field
Thomasboro Tower Site
The building at the north
tower is set into place.
Looking north at the building
and generator.
The 300' tower is assembled
on the ground awaiting installation.
A closer view of the 1/2
million candle power lighting system.
Tower crews guide the first
section of tower onto the center pin
Tower sections were then
lifted on top and the tower stacked to it's final 300' height
In this photo of a section of
tower being lifted, you can see the tower crew on the top of the left
section of tower waiting to receive the next section, once anchored, the
tower crew climbs to the next point and the process continues until
complete
The final section just as it
was set into place
CFD Station 1 Tower Site
On a cold and cloudy morning,
the existing 100' tower is removed from the central site, making way for
the new 180' tower.
The crane carefully maneuvers
a section of tower away from the crew.
More photos of this site
coming soon!
METCAD Tower Site
Lower tower sections are
lifted into place
MDICE Project Manager, Greg
Abbott, stands next to tower sections waiting to be erected as the crane
continues to work in the background
Tower crews prepare to lift
one of the microwave dishes into place
The last section of the final
tower to be constructed is lifted into place
MDICE MOTOROLA TEAM
Photo taken of
the Motorola project team in staging at Motorola
