Lots of progress happening! cool watching it being built!
Cell Tower Saga
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Posted 21 July 2013 - 05:03 PM
Lots of progress happening! cool watching it being built!
Truth! Talking to the Cam Com folks gives me some tips on the how/when and why of the procedures, and hopefully a chance to be on hand for other 'significant' milestones.
I've now got a clue on how the old tower will be removed...you'll just have to stay tuned!
Also, meeting the Fire Marshall has given a better understanding of the how/when and why of the blasting operations.
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Posted 22 July 2013 - 11:15 AM
They've cleared the trees all the way over to where the power lines run up to the old tower.
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Which led me to nose around and find the other end of the new data cable coiled up where the old data cable probably runs.
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I speculate that they'll do some kinda splice so they can keep the old tower going while they get the new one running and integrated.
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Posted 22 July 2013 - 12:25 PM
Got a better(?) pic of a prime example of a "Not my chob, man!" this morning...
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Posted 22 July 2013 - 12:29 PM
From another spot on my rounds...
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...and what's that I see rising above the trees??
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Why, I b'leeve they've added another section!
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Posted 23 July 2013 - 02:37 PM
Got there just in time...
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Posted 23 July 2013 - 02:43 PM
Got a better(?) pic of a prime example of a "Not my chob, man!" this morning...
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That would be a cool job to have.... winder how good the $$ is
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Posted 23 July 2013 - 02:46 PM
That would be a cool job to have.... winder how good the $$ is
Don't know who was up there or what they were doing. If'n you'd like I could ask the foreman for the crew that's building the new one how much they pay!
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Posted 23 July 2013 - 02:50 PM
Don't know who was up there or what they were doing. If'n you'd like I could ask the foreman for the crew that's building the new one how much they pay!
Cool........ not sure I could do it tho, if you reread my previous post, I can't even spell..... LOL
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Posted 23 July 2013 - 04:12 PM
Man you should seriously put on a suit and walk around with a clipboard while you're taking pics and watch everyone freak out. 
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Posted 23 July 2013 - 04:15 PM
Yeah.... do that.... wait till I'm home tho.... I'll come up and video it for ya
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Posted 23 July 2013 - 04:19 PM
Man you should seriously put on a suit and walk around with a clipboard while you're taking pics and watch everyone freak out.
By now I've seen and or met all the project big dawgs on the project and b'leeve me, there ain't no suits to be seen!
They'd know I was some kind of phony and run me off!
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Posted 24 July 2013 - 09:28 AM
The former RV campground slots are being used for equipment staging and servicing by the maintenance truck guys and the mobile home park slots are used for material storage. There are slots with all kinds of pre-formed rebar pieces, metal concrete forms and today a truck load of pipe showed up. Maybe storm drain lines to go under the site?
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Posted 25 July 2013 - 04:26 PM
Well, lookie what's going on up there!
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Better go for a closer look...
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Still some empty slabs for cabinets or transformers, maybe?
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Then they headed out for another load.
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Posted 25 July 2013 - 04:32 PM
Drilling another patch for next week...
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A look at a good sized rock wall...
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Working their way to just leaving a knob till the new tower is on line.
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Posted 26 July 2013 - 10:51 AM
Well, they were ready and I had the vid camera out, but this time they didn't shut down the freeway, so I missed the signal.
But...local CBS affiliate was there and had their camera running...I'll check their site tonight to see if there's anything worth posting a link here.
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Posted 29 July 2013 - 07:37 AM
Since there are a huge oak tree and a very tall walnut tree across the road from my house, the new tower isn't visible from my front yard (yet?), but just north of me is a side road and from there I can see this...
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From the Buick dealership (near the Honda shop)...
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Zoomed in a bit, two new legs...
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...and the third one...
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Posted 29 July 2013 - 07:43 AM
Meanwhile, on the east side of the hill, it's like making lasagne...lay down some dirt, add a layer of rocks, repeat.
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Dump a load from the other side of the hill...
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If there are big rocks in it, the dozer shoves them to the edge...
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...and use the jack hammer to make smaller rocks.
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Posted 30 July 2013 - 08:30 AM
The drills are finishing up along the layer below the rock wall and the Austin Powder folks are busy...looks like another shot later today.
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And all of the tower sections have been moved from the weeds by the Honda shop. The stack of assemblies back by the black plastic are the 'ladders' that go up along the tower legs, there's also a stack of perforated plate decking and all of the tubular assemblies for each layer of transmitters.
I've learned that AT&T will be on the very top, VZW next down, then T-Mo and then Sprint on the bottom layer. The regional Fire Departments also use the tower for their comms.
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Posted 30 July 2013 - 09:16 AM
1 tower 4 massive networks.... Technology never ceases to amaze...I've learned that AT&T will be on the very top, VZW next down, then T-Mo and then Sprint on the bottom layer. The regional Fire Departments also use the tower for their comms.
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