New WMTV-15 and WBUW-57 Tower

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700 - 9/12/04 - 17:37 Beau's girlfriend adding more wire to the grounding. The ground needed to be fanned out in a couple of directions on each leg.	701 - 9/12/04 - 17:38	702 - 9/12/04 - 17:41
703 - 9/12/04 - 21:28	704 - 9/12/04 - 21:28 Cropped view. No more sections can be removed until the guy wires are removed. If you look a couple of sections down, you can see work being done on loosening bolts that hold the sections together.	705 - 9/12/04 - 21:31 More sections moved to storage.
706 - 9/12/04 - 21:32	707 - 9/12/04 - 21:52	708 - 9/12/04 - 22:26
709 - 9/12/04 - 22:37	710 - 9/12/04 - 23:08	711 - 9/12/04 - 23:20
712 - 9/12/04 - 23:33	713 - 9/12/04 - 23:39	714 - 9/12/04 - 23:39 Cropped view. You can see the small platform that they have been installing.
715 - 9/12/04 - 23:41	716 - 9/12/04 - 23:43	717 - 9/12/04 - 23:44
718 - 9/13/04 - 00:01	719 - 9/13/04 - 00:03	720 - 9/13/04 - 00:18
721 - 9/13/04 - 23:17	722 - 9/13/04 - 23:17 Cropped view. You can see that the guy wires have been detached from the anchors and are hanging loose on the tower.	723 - 9/14/04 - 23:12 Cropped view. One guy wire left to remove from the tower.
724 - 9/14/04 - 23:13 A jumbled mess of cable, a result of being cut further up. It was removed later, before the section was removed.	725 - 9/14/04 - 23:15 Still more sections being placed in storage.	726 - 9/16/04 - 22:01 More sections have been removed from the old tower, including the section with the crow's nest.
727 - 9/16/04 - 22:01	728 - 9/16/04 - 22:04 And there it is, the crow's nest section resting in the yard.	729 - 9/17/04 - 18:08 Enlarged view. While the old tower was coming down, some work was needed to be done on the new tower.
730 - 9/17/04 - 18:09 Enlarged view. You can see the crew member on the right.	731 - 9/17/04 - 18:09 The guy wires have been removed from the anchors. Next, removal from the tower.	732 - 9/17/04 - 18:09 In these two images, you can see crew being hoisted up to the tower.
733 - 9/17/04 - 18:10	734 - 9/17/04 - 18:11	735 - 9/17/04 - 21:51 Another series of shots of another section being removed from the old tower.
736 - 9/17/04 - 21:53	737 - 9/17/04 - 21:55	738 - 9/17/04 - 21:57
739 - 9/17/04 - 21:58	740 - 9/17/04 - 21:59	741 - 9/17/04 - 22:01
742 - 9/17/04 - 22:01	743 - 9/17/04 - 22:02	744 - 9/17/04 - 22:04
745 - 9/17/04 - 22:08 The storage area is getting filled up.	746 - 9/18/04 - 15:49 Enlarged view. The next section to be removed.	747 - 9/18/04 - 15:50 Cropped view.
748 - 9/19/04 - 15:52 Enlarged view.	749 - 9/19/04 - 14:38	750 - 9/19/04 - 14:45 One of the guy wires that has been removed from the old tower, getting ready to be hoisted up.
Notes: There are up to six riggers working up in the tower. The very bottom section is 16' and is one foot AGL. The next six sections at the bottom are about 26.667'. Each remaining section is 20'. The T-bar is 11'. Currently scheduled date for antenna sticks to be installed: 8/1/04. The antennas will be hoisted into place. One of the copper signal feeders will carry channel 15. The other copper feeder will carry a combined 19 and 32 (DTV). The waveguide will carry channel 57. Original images are 2560x1920 - TIFF (5 Mpixel) Starting with the 6/15/04 images, they are 3264x2448 - TIFF (8 Mpixel) Enlarged views are 720x540 cuts Blowup views are 360x270 cuts enlarged to 720x540 The EXIF value for the time the shots were taken is CST, not CDT Starting with the 6/15/04 images, the EXIF value for the time the shots were taken is GMT