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[TowerTalk] Fw: EZ Way Foundations

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Fw: EZ Way Foundations
From: "Wilson Lamb" <infomet@embarqmail.com>
Reply-to: Wilson Lamb <infomet@embarqmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:07:26 -0500
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> There's an EZ Way 50' for sale locally, so I looked up their instructions. 
> I "feel", based on some experience, that the foundations now being 
> recommended are over the top, especially for guyed towers.  But in this 
> case, the recommended foundation seems wildly underdone!
>
> The RBS 60 foundation spec is a 14"X66" hole for the finned "ground post", 
> to which the tower is clamped.  They recommend tamped earth for teh fill, 
> not concrete!
>
> I can't find wind spec's for the RBS 60, but the RBS 50 is rated for 12 
> ft^^2 at 50 mi/hr when self supporting.  This seems optimistic to me!
>
> Does anyone have EZ Way experience to share??
>
> Wilson
> W4BOH 

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