On April 18, 2002, repair work began on the fences around KYFR's four towers. Years of wind, rain and ice have worn away the dirt around and inside each tower fence, exposing ground wires and weakening the fence supports. The cattle allowed to graze on the site have also worn down the areas around the corner fenceposts.

You can see the exposed and broken ground wires in the eroded soil around Tower 4's fence.

A typical example of the fence corners.

Another corner exposing the cement support.

The first of two truckloads of gravel arrives at 8:30am on an overcast but warm morning.

The dumping begins at the corners of tower one. Don Horton, KYFR's Chief Engineer supervises.

Now dumping at tower two. Each tower site gets a load to work with.

By the end of the morning, two loads of gravel have been dumped and each tower is ready for the next step.

The manual labor now begins as Mike DeStefano, KYFR's manager and Don Horton begin spreading the gravel by hand.

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