Old alloy mast ....too old?

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This is an insurance company that doesn't want to pay, plain and simple. Rigs don't wear out like a pair of jeans, they wearout like like a rock... everything is going along fine until someone hits it with a hammer.

My guess is that the adjuster was looking at the depreciation table for a mast, which probably lists it at 30 years, and applied that to its lifespan. My advice is to have the owner call an attorney if he can't get the insurance guys to cough up the money for a new one.