Painting Towers In The Wilderness

 Painting Towers In Alaska

We had the amazing opportunity to spend 2 months in Kodiak Alaska during the Fall of 2020 painting a Loran tower for the United States Coast Guard.   The work consisted of removing lead-based loose and flaking paint with HEPA vacuums while recoating the entire tower with a product called Rust Grip.  The tower went from aviation orange to silver within 3 weeks after prep work.

What's not to love about spending time in Alaska?  On the off days, the crew went deep sea fishing in the Pacific, flying floatplanes to Katmai National Park, and lots of site seeing.  The Kodiak Island bears are big and abundant and everywhere you turn.  We saw the bears almost every day leaving the house for the job site, what a wild adventure we had in Kodiak Alaska.

At 300' painting

What's up!

Bears of Kodiak

Local Russian Architecture

Floatplane to Katmai

Jobsite Fox

The Tower

Deep-Sea Fishing

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Painting Magazine Front Cover

We made it!  One of our team members was selected to be on the front cover of inPaint Magazine.   We spend all year traveling to different cities whilst climbing and painting some of the most iconic structures in the country.  Utilizing mostly rope access methods we apply thousands of gallons of paint to elevated steel of stadiums, roller coasters, towers, and buildings.

On this cover, you will see Brandon painting a baseball stadium's roof in the Midwest of the USA.   

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inPaint magazine is the magazine for professional painters.  

You won’t fly into the radio towers we paint!!

Painting self-support towers is one of our specialties.  With this tower, we teamed up with Anchor Paint to use their proprietary Flexi-Coat Aviation Coating Series to paint the orange and white bands to FAA color and gloss standards. 

Hundreds of Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures regularly roost on this tower so prep work was of the utmost importance to establish a good foundation before the application of the coating.  Prep work consisted of pressure washing, hand and power tool cleaning to remove built-up dirt and rust (SSPC 1, 2, 3).   

Tower banding was first introduced to towers back in the 1930s to provide a contrasting background from the tower and sky so aviators could easily see them and gauge how tall they might be.  Towers are divided into bands depending on their height, for example, a tower less than 700' will have 7 bands, and towers up to 900' will have 9 bands and so forth.  

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Missouri Tower Painting

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BASE Group Painting a tower for the police department near Kansas City Missouri.  While the crew waits for the paint to dry on the steel and before the second coat they take a trip to visit the birthplace of local legend Jesse James.

Tower Painters

The tower painting crew of The BASE Group. Performing tower painting services in the USA.
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California Tower Painting

Recently the team was in California performing tower painting services for Los Angeles County.

project: bald mtn and lancaster, ca tower painting.
product: primer: macropoxy. top coat: hi-solids polyurethane.
notes: lead paint containment, parking lots


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Tower Painting

371'

Getting ready to paint the old analog TV antenna.

Trask from the top.

Project: Radio Tower Painting

Client: Kentucky Educational Television

Product: SW Sher-Cryl & Pro-Cryl

Location: Ashland, Kentucky

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Tower Painting

Ashland Kentucky
We were just awarded a project to paint the 400' tower for WKAS TV in Ashland Kentucky. At the time of construction it was the tallest tower in the USA. Of course this was several years ago and many towers now reach over 1000'. The photos here are of the tower on Dec 18 2009. Check back in the Spring of 2009 for photos.

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