A Wind Turbine Tower Murphy Built

My poor husband has all the manual dexterity of Gumby, and he commands all the mechanical aptitude of Bullwinkle. He is a genius. He "gets it," and he can explain it better than your ordinary six-pack of designers and engineers, but he cannot make his hands, tools, and materials submit to his will and desire. The "stuff" simply will not do what his imagination and intellect dictates. Genuine builders say my husband has "plumber's hands"-everything he touches turns to @#$%. The harder my poor man tries, the more the elements defy him--the price we pay for his visionary genius, I suppose.

Given my husband's well-intentioned feelings, when we elected to install a wind turbine, supplementing our solar panels and other advanced alternative energy resources, he immediately agreed he would play no part in its or its tower's installation. He wisely chose an elegant, durable wind turbine tower, hiring Murphy and Associates to install it. For their part, Murphy and his crack team of ace associates absolutely swore by all things sacred and holy they would leave us with a perfectly integrated, state of the art hybrid wind and solar system

Steve Murphy and his associates assured us, "We specialize in wind turbine towers. Oh sure, we do all kinds of solar installations, but we excel at wind turbine towers." Steve drove a shiny new F-150, carried many high-quality tools, and talked a darn good game. When Murphy issued an order or gave instructions, his little posse of renegade Villistos got right on it, kicking up a whole lot of dust. The husband and I felt duly impressed. We should have trusted the dog, who did not like Murphy and his associates one bit: his hackles went up stiff and straight as spikes on a spike-strip. How hard can it be to erect a durable wind turbine tower and install the unit ion the top? Just like the old Gilbert erector set, we reasoned.

Old fashioned lattice-style wind turbine towers go together a lot like old Gilbert erector sets-bolt and brace and bolt and brace and viola. Of course, we did not have one of those, but we reasoned less bolting and bracing would simply the erection process. Single pole wind turbine towers usually are designed and built to tilt up, and then guyed wires stabilize them; common sense suggests that you really ought to install the wind turbine before you tilt up the tower. But we did not have one of those either. We could have; maybe we should have. But we did not. Elegant tubular designs typically penetrate five or six feet into the earth's crust, standing erect but loose in some sort of form and then solidly anchored in 6000 psi or 8000 psi concrete. Getting the wind turbine to the top of tubular tower requires a little professional skill and experience, but when a pro has done it once, he can continue doing it forever. We did not have a tubular tower. We ultimately regretted that we did not make the elegant tubular dealie-o our wind turbine tower of choice, but we felt absolutely, unshakably, irrevocably confident we had the wind turbine tower design. Murphy and his associates wholeheartedly agreed with our assessment.

Murphy and company went straight to work on our awesome wind turbine towers, and they had it fully framed and formed by the end of their first day. On the second day, Murphy and his all stars double-checked all their work, and then a behemoth concrete pump lifted its boom over our house, dropping a long elephant trunk right to the edge of the backyard target. Of course, professionals cannot pump concrete without liberal use of three languages' most colorful elements, and we felt, frankly, uplifted as all the worker guys exercised their colorful vocabularies. By the end of the second day, the pour was complete.

By the middle of the third day, Murphy and company stood ready for the advanced, sophisticated, brilliantly engineered wind turbine tower's unveiling. Los carpintieros y los fiereros knocked away all the forms and supports, and we beheld our magnificent monolith-even better than it had appeared on the blueprints or loomed in our imaginations. The husband I felt more than thrilled.

Overnight on the third night, a fierce winter storm rolled down the Pacific coast from the Gulf of Alaska, lashing us with strong winds and pounding rain. We had consummate faith in our wind turbine tower-barely gave it a second thought. And when we awakened to examine how our tower had fared, we found amazing little rivers of molten concrete flowing through every little groove in our yard. No tower. Just rivers.

When my husband spoke with Murphy, our contractor remained calm, suggesting only, "I had a feeling I might have forgotten the cement in the mix."

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