North Dakota tower

[Dave Doherty]

> While the Polish government wrote it off as a maintenance issue, others 
> involved wrote the tower was collapsed intentionally.

There was a Moscow tower, a self-supporter, as I recall, that suffered a 
mysterious fire.

-d

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From: "Mike Fitzpatrick" <necrat.alternate@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 9:33 PM
To: <BRI@bostonradio.org>
Subject: RE: North Dakota  tower

>
> That is the first time I heard that explanation. I heard that the steel
> silos are to reduce the ice and wind-loading on the towers,
> because they are straight towers with no guy wires. It was done to 
> eliminate
> the need for guy wires from being constructed on the
> mountain top to reduce the "environmental damage".  (As you know Concrete
> tower footings use less "earth" than the concrete guy wire footings)
>
> I guess any explanation is plausible.
>
> Also RE: Warsaw tower, it is widely believed amongst those who studied it,
> the Warsaw tower collapsed due to sabotage.
> While the Polish government wrote it off as a maintenance issue, others
> involved wrote the tower was collapsed intentionally.
>
> --Mike Fitzpatrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>
>>In the interest of accuracy, it should be noted that those are not
>>concrete silos up there on Mansfield. They're actually steel cylinders
>>that surround conventional lattice towers, and they're there to pacify
>>the environmentalists who would have preferred to see no towers there at
>>all. Supposedly the shrouded towers are less visually obtrusive. I'm not
>>sure I buy that line of reasoning, but if I had to get a new tower built
>>on Mount Mansfield, I'd build whatever needed to be built, I suppose.
>
>