Photo Gallery
General Interest
PCS Site Installation
Sioux Falls Tower on Site
Building a Tower or "Stacking Iron"
Big Iron or "Really Tall Towers"
Communications Work
Just for fun...

General Interest
View from 2000 feet - KELO and KSFY transmitting antenna near Sioux Falls, SD
SFT Crew Vehicle parked in front of one of our favorite landmarks.
Wreckage of a tower that fell due to anchor corrosion
SFT tool-truck and winch on Keven Rim in NW Montana in January.
Riding the Line when man-rated winches and rigging equipment are on site.
Rescue Training - fall protection and rescue training.
Training Day

PCS Site Installation
Ground level BTS compound for rooftop antenna site.
Monopole base compound with SFT Icebridge protecting RFFE units.
Elevated BTS platform for flood prone site.
Elevated BTS platform on site with limited horizontal real estate.
Self-supporting communications tower
Electrical distribution tower
Watertower support leg
Rooftop
Valmont double-decker

Pirod Low-profile
Stadium light pole replacement

Sioux Falls Tower on Site
We work year round
Winch and jin-pole on site preparing to top off a 300' tower.
SFT crew in the process of taking down a 300' tower.
SFT crew vehicle on a tall tower construction site, ready for work.
Climbing with rope the first step in rigging a tower.
Cellular maintenance work at 350'.
Ready to stack iron
A sanitary site

Building a Tower or "Stacking Iron"
Assemble the Stub
Lift the Stub
Set the Stub
Place the Gin Pole
Jump the Gin Pole
Hoist a Section
Hoist a Section 2
Swing Section into Place
Make the Leg Bolts

Big Iron or "Really Tall Towers"
High Exposure Factor
Tower base ready to be set
Making the leg bolts at 1800'
Stacking a section on a 2000' tower
Waiting for the next section
View from the top of the WIO 2000' tower
Tower Inspection on the WIO tower

Communications Work
RF Cabling
RF Cabling

Just for fun...
Livestock Containment
Zero-G?
Winch operator safety??
Electrical Safety
Billboard in Sioux Falls

 

 


The Tower Alert area is dedicated to bringing issues that could be harmful to towers or personnel working on or around towers to light.