Microwave Tower Demolition

Before buried fiber optic cables were common, microwave towers offered one of the best ways of transmitting data signals. As more and more fiber has been installed, the microwave towers fell into disuse. Roughly two decades ago, the AT&T office in Fort Scott installed a large tower for microwave transmission. It is now being taken down.

Below are some photographs of the demolition work being done to remove the tower.

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  1. We were downtown and we watched how this was being done. They don’t have enough money in the world to get me up in that crane to chisel away like that as between the height involved and the motion…………….

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