The Great '02 Tower Project

   The fun begins! Here we assemble and install the equalizer plates (one for each of the three anchors), add thirty feet of tower to the existing twenty, and raise all fifty feet into the air at once! That was scary. Then, a few days later, with help from Gil and Cheryl, we replace the temporary guy ropes with permanent guy wires. The names of the pictures indicate when the work was done. Pictures were taken by Gale Flagg.

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Assembling equalizer plates	Equalizer plate installed on anchor	Help arrives	Preparing section three for installation
Stan bolts on section three	Preparing to install section four	Bolting on section four	Raising the first fifty feet
What a relief!	Steve just couldn't wait to climb	Lots of shiny new stuff	Cheryl prepares turnbuckles
Steve looks puzzled	Gil pretends he's fishing	Steve climbs again	Gil feeds guy wires up the tower
Steve prepares to connect guys at 30'

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