OK, maybe my ignorance is showing, but does anyone else think it a bit
preposterous for an engineer to recommend digging a 25 foot deep hole for a
tower base? If the soil content would allow augering a 25 foot deep hole only 2
feet in diameter, wouldn't it cave in long before it got that deep? Are there
even 2 foot diameter truck-mounted augers available 25 feet long? There's
something about this idea that just seems wrong... but then I'm no engineer.
Any thoughts? Jerry K3BZ
----- Original Message -----
From: David Giuliani
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 12:23 PM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] The tower base is poured BUT...
The more I read about this, the more I'm liking my emerging plan to dig a
hole with a truck mounted auger rig -- no forms, no backfilling, relatively
small diameter surface. We're looking at a 2' diameter hole, 25' deep.
Relatively simple rebar for the lower 80%. Requires <3 cubic yards of
concrete. See "deep base for MA-550" for this thread.
David Giuliani, WA6PXX
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of K7LXC@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 6:46 AM
To: k1ttt@arrl.net; towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] The tower base is poured BUT...
In a message dated 10/4/03 9:54:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, k1ttt@arrl.net
writes:
> Doesn't anyone use forms any more???
What for? I assume you mean below grade. The concrete is supposed to be
poured into 'undisturbed' earth.
An exception would be when the walls keep sloughing; then the forms
would
be necessary but you have to be real careful to backfill after you remove
the
forms and tamp the backfilled dirt.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
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