Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 13:28:44 -0700
From: Jerry Gardner <jerryw6uv@gmail.com>
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] AN Wireless "cease and desist" letter
>
> ## and here I thought my re-bar cage + 17 yards was nuts for my UST
> HDX-689.
> Your 11 x 11 x 6 = 26.9 yards = 54 tons of concrete. Maybe your
> engineer did not like
> the loamy soil ? IMO, it would not have gone anywhere with the
> prescribed AN
> 10 x 10 x 5 base... they already spec for sandy soil conditions.
>
My soil is hard-packed adobe clay, not loamy or sandy soil.
## ur Peng is nuts. With hard packed clay, the last thing u need is
more concrete. I have hard clay here too. hole is 7 x 7 x 9 deep.
had to do the last tiny bit by hand..since the small back hoe on tank treads
was maxed out a few inches b4 the 9 ft.
## when I was up north from 79-89.... We hit this stuff called blue clay...but
that
was only once we were down 4 ft. Hole was 6 x 6 x 6. The small back hoe
actually
broke the chassis rail on one side, trying to get the rock hard blue clay out.
It would not
budge with the small digger scoop on the front..it would lift the tires right
off the ground !
So plan b was to push down at back end of back hoe... by pushing the large wide
scraper scoop
into the ground. that’s when the side rail snapped. hell of a time getting it
out of my back yard,
with temp clamps etc. With that blue clay... concrete is not much better,
except for the weight.
## To get the last 2 ft out... the way I got it out was to soak it with water
at bottom of hole, to make sludge
then shoveled sludge by hand into buckets. then kept repeating the process.
## Ok at least u are now ready for armagedon.....or a direct hit from a hell
fire missile. If the winds blow
hard enough, u lose the yagis 1st, then the tower folds over just below the
top. The base wont budge.
Jim VE7RF
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