cell towers?

[treeman82]

Today as I was driving north with a friend on a rather rural highway I was looking at the scenery and noticed a bunch of VERY tall evergreen trees which had been topped, and then had a bunch of satellites put in their tops. On further investigation, I noticed that these were not trees, but instead they were cell towers camoflaged to look like trees. They had the bark, and branches, and leaves, enough to make me think they were trees. Is this common anywhere else in the country? These appeared to be on private property.

 

[StIhL MaGnUm]

Last I heard from my friend that lives out in Iowa was that the cell phone companies would pay a landowner $1000 dollars a month to let them put a tower on your private land..I never heard about making them look like a tree though...

Later Rob

 

[monkeypuzzle]

We have one here in town. I'll get a pic today.

Funny look on the new dudes face when you pull up to it and start pointing up saying 'get the biggest saw we got I think we can just pull this one.

 

[Newfie]

I've seen one heading into Boston in one of those snobby little bedroom communities. I haven't seen it close up so I don't know about the bark etc. Sadly it is disguised as the only 200 foot white pine and definitlely stands out rather than blending in. Cell towers are sparse in my area so they don't bother disguising them.

 

[mbopp]

I can't remember where, but I've seen pictures of these disguised cell towers. I also read in the local paper they hid one in a church steeple after they made a fibreglass copy of the steeple. My dad has a tower on his business property, but I don't know how much rent he collects off it. There's a controversy brewing in the Adirondack mountains about cell towers, they may have to be disguised when they go up. Wonder if they could hide them in an old or replica fire tower?

 

[Jay Banks]

There's a few in Northern Virginia we call them

Pinus metalicus

 

[sonny]

plenty of date palm cell towers out hear.

 

[kf_tree]

they use them in new jersey on the garden state parkway in spots and there's one on 17n just past campmor.

 

[treeman82]

Dan, these towers were maybe 50 miles north of city limits.. but the area is not a big $ area... so I don't see why they did that.

 

[Ryan Willock]

they also do that around Charlestown Sc

 

[r/ctree]

We have dozens of them around here. that look like trees and several churches have big crosses.

 

[Korn]

We have those strange trees in my area too (Philadelphia suburbs)

 

[ramanujan]

i've noticed them in several places along the I-5 in oregon washington and california. i always wonder if non-tree people look at them and think, what kind of tree is that?

 

[monkeypuzzle]

Found this one over in Jacksonville, Fl. near the airport last month.
This one is a lot taller than the one here in Tally.

 

[ksu_chainsaw]

around here, they are putting the cell towers on grain bins and silos, along with the large elevators. They also are paying $600 a month for a freestanding tower with open access underneath it. They are also including several lines of free service with the rent check. I wish they would just improve the service at my house- no service and the tower is only two miles away- but a LARGE hill between the two

 

[treeman82]

MP- thanx for posting that picture. When will it be put in Dirr's book?

 

[NeTree]

So THAT'S why I'm dulling so many dang chains!

 

[Climbing mike]

I have seen thoes pine towers near raleigh. A freind of mine was talking to the cell companies about puting a tower on his land, the price they were talking about was $300,000 paid out over 20 years but then the tower remians. They decided to go acroos the street to the chuch and put the tower there. He told me that the tower can only be put on land that is zoned for comercial or agricultrual use. They cant put tower in areas zone only for resident use.

Mike