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1. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1): Author: rich@n7tr.com (Rich Hallman - N7TR); Date: Sun Jun 29 15:11:57 2003; I'm installing several Trylon T400-80's. I noticed that you can use plywood forms for those times when your backhoe guy gets carried away with the hole digging. If I use a form for one end of my over; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00541.html (7,798 bytes)
2. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1): Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR); Date: Sun Jun 29 16:32:42 2003; Rich: Absolutely remove the form. If you don't, when the wood decays, that side of the foundation will not have the support from undisturbed earth that the other sides have. This means that you'll ha; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00542.html (9,835 bytes)
3. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1): Author: k4oj@tampabay.rr.com (Jim White, K4OJ); Date: Sun Jun 29 20:44:31 2003; Gene... Are you saying the 1/2" or 3/4" of plywood around the pour once it disintegrates will create a void that wide between the earth and the pour???? And then the concrete mass could shit by 1/2"; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00543.html (11,503 bytes)
4. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1): Author: olinger@bellsouth.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV); Date: Sun Jun 29 21:50:02 2003; In normal dirt, there's no point to using plywood aside from making the *TOP* neat to see. Underground, concrete on undisturbed earth is best. Some soils are so crumbly that the hole won't keep its s; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00544.html (13,976 bytes)
5. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1): Author: ersmar@comcast.net (EUGENE SMAR); Date: Sun Jun 29 23:56:58 2003; Jim: Yes, nature would step in to fill the void, but how long until that happens (the wood disintegrates and the soil fills in) and how compacted would the soil be? I don't believe in cutting corners; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00545.html (13,537 bytes)
6. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1): Author: rich@n7tr.com (Rich Hallman - N7TR); Date: Mon Jun 30 00:07:10 2003; Wow.... Great comments and thanks to the group for all your feedback. I figured I would need an additional 4 yards of concrete to fill the entire hole. In Reno, 6 sack concrete is around $72 a yard..; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00546.html (14,181 bytes)
7. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1): Author: Cqtestk4xs@aol.com (Cqtestk4xs@aol.com); Date: Mon Jun 30 00:28:28 2003; A lot depends on what type of climate one has as well as the type of plywood used for the forms. In Florida, any type of wood made of pine or spruce is not long in the ground before it becomes termit; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00547.html (7,804 bytes)
8. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1): Author: smidtca@sprint.ca (Carl Smidt); Date: Mon Jun 30 07:33:34 2003; I made this mistake some years ago with 7 cu yds of concrete and a 48 foot self supporting tower. The forms disappeared, the base shifted causing the tower to lean and being out of plumb at the top b; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00549.html (13,459 bytes)
9. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1): Author: kk9a@arrl.net (kk9a@arrl.net); Date: Mon Jun 30 08:48:52 2003; I have used plywood forms for most of my guy anchors and this worked out pretty well. The forms made it easy to calculate concrete usage. Make sure that your forms are strong and well braced and that; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00551.html (9,263 bytes)
10. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1): Author: na6t@na6t.com (Bob Smith); Date: Mon Jun 30 21:06:42 2003; Forms are nice in a 'nice' world. But With a water table at 10' in my area I started digging a 4'x4'x6' hole for my LM-470 and the hole ended up being 5'x6'x10' + deep.... I dropped in the 'extended; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00554.html (8,715 bytes)
11. [TowerTalk] Using plywood forms...?? (score: 1): Author: ve4xt@mb.sympatico.ca (Kelly Taylor); Date: Mon Jun 30 21:51:27 2003; I think the only relevant information here is what is contained, in various phraseology, in almost every tower instructions I have ever read: "pour into undisturbed soil." Use a form at the top if yo; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-06/msg00555.html (13,630 bytes)

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