They set up a gin pole and use it to diassemble it from the top down. There is going to be about 200 or so towers demolished becuse of the change in the equipment used. Some of the towers can't take the weight.
I saw a really interesting piece of equipment being used on a four legged tower. It was called a basket pole crane and it was supported on cables strung from the towers legs.

I'll tell you after the bid.

Man that is tall. How far up is that set of guys?

big tower bob. where was it?

Chris,
You forgot to mention a cellphone! One time we climbed up on the roof of a 27 story building and a gust of wind came along and slammed the door shut of the stairwell and it locked. We called the building management office about 3 or 4 times and the receptionist thought we were prank callers and kept hanging up on us
Another word to the wise, be careful when using elevators. I had one crap out on me one time and left me stranded between the 13th and 14th floor. The only way out was to climb the ladder to the elevator penthouse (25th floor) and then walk down the steps. Those ladders are al covered with grease

I went on a walk through once and was offerd a drink by a very nice homeless man willing to share his morning brew (50/50 mix of Cepacol moutwash and Orange Crush). I told him I was good and went on throught he building. I the same building I tripped over a man sleeping in a rolled up carpet. That was one of those stepout of your skin moments.

One time, Tom O'Brien (who works for Sabre Demolition) and I went on a walk through of a hotel. The entire hotel was occupied and booby trapped by a bunch of crazy Viet Nam War vets. They cut hunks out of the floor slab so if you stepped in the wrong spot you would fall several stories. The place was pitch black. They also booby trapped a bunch of doors that if you opened them you would get impaled. Plus the temperature was about 10 degrees Farenheit.

But all things considered we still got the job done.

It all depends on what I am walking through.

I was walking through an old brewery one time. It was one big crack house. So here I am worrying about getting shot and a pit bull comes running out and attacks me. Luckily, one of the guys I was with smacked it with a piece of pipe.
I had to go through the whole series of rabies shots Unfortunately, the only place to get the rabies vaccine was the "Baltimore County Office of Communicable Diseases" at least that was what the big sign on the front of the place said. I had to punch all the elevator buttons with the point of my elbow because who knows what funky crap those people in it had. So, I leave the building with a cardboard box filled with all the rabies vaccine in it and I am standing right under the aformentioned very large sign and damned if my next door neighbor doesn't drive by. The more I tried to explain, the less she believed. I think every Halloween after that she made her kids throw my candy away.
Walking through occupied housing projects is always fun. Cabrini Green was memorable as was the projects in Puerto Rico. About 30 cops showed up with bullet proof vests and machine guns for that one.
The Big Daddy of walk throughs was the Walled City in Kowloon. That walk through took a couple of weeks. It was composed of 577 intertwined buildings. None of which was built to code and there were no blueprints. The place was totally lawless. It wasn't claimed by the Chinese nor the British. A cop hadn't set foot in there in something like the last 200 years or so.