In a message dated 9/2/2010 8:46:03 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
towertalk-request@contesting.com writes:
> Good Lord. Whatever happened top Joe Average Ham and just pouring
concrete
for a base? I can see all this if you have an gigantic hundreds of feet
high
superstation, but the average guy doesn't need to have his concrete
analyzed.
> You dig the hole the tower manufactuer specifies and you use the
rebar/cage
they say. You guy correctly if it is guyed tower. You add concrete and make
sure there aren't voids. 99.999% of us need nothing more than that.
I agree 100%! The problem is that the building department thinks
that everything constructed is going to be habitable - not something less
than 10 yards for another purpose. :-(
Also, I've never seen or heard of a tower failing because the base
concrete split fatally. It's always the steel. (Big base shifting in sand,
mud, etc. excepted.)
And it's burdensome for an amateur anything to have to comply with
this monetarily. What a waste of time, effort and money - for everyone.
Just my opinion. I've counseled permit applicators to protest it. It might
work.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
TOWER TECH
and
_www.championradio.com_ (http://www.championradio.com)
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