I've seen tower legs inbedded in concrete rust thru
also. I would use concrete AND a baseplate. You could
fill the bottom couple of feet of the hole with gravel
before you pour the concrete and still have a suitable
base. That is a really large hole for a 40ft
guyed/bracketed tower!
73, Stew K3ND
--- Cqtestk4xs@aol.com wrote:
> I agree with Bill......use concrete. I have seen
> too many installations
> where the tower was buried in soil and within a few
> years there was severe
> corrosion. In one case the corrosion was so bad the
> tower was completely rotted
> through on one leg.
>
> Bill K4XS
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