I dug out an EZ-Way tower in 1977, using a hand shovel, water hose for
our Texas soil, and a wheeled auto engine hoist, in about two hours.
I hand dug, with a Texas Pole Shovel, the hole for its new home
and relocated it to my back yard a week later, first with a Maco Quad,
and then later with TH7-DXX Serial Number ONE, where the tower and
that antenna remained until 2003, when I replaced the tower and antenna
(that were still working just fine) with a 70 foot crank up and
a 24 foot mast with OB16-3 above a Cal-AV 2el 40.
After a half-hour attempt to dig and pull the base with the 60 ton
crane that was installing the new tower, we gave up and cut the EZ-Way
base at ground level with a torch, since that was now under a porch
and not visable.
Barry, W5GN
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rick
Karlquist
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 5:19 PM
To: Wilson
Cc: towertalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Mystery Tower
Wilson wrote:
> Thanks for the several replies. I got pictures of installations and a
> manual from BAMA!
> 73,
> Wilson
What was the general reputation of these no concrete EZ Way tower bases?
Potential problems such as:
Wonder ground post leans over?
Wonder ground post sinks into the ground?
Fins bend or break off?
The whole thing turns to rust in short order?
I'm looking for ways to put up towers on my land without concrete so that if I
remove them I can disk up the land.
Does it make sense to have a fab shop make a copy of a wonder ground post? How
was the wonder ground post installed?
By pounding it into the ground, or by digging a hole for it and backfilling?
It seems like a large enough set of fins would give the same resistance to
overturning vs PSI rating of the soil compared to concrete, but it doesn't have
the weight of the concrete.
I've always wondered whether the massive weight of concrete isn't the real
thing holding up the tower as opposed to the resistance of the soil.
Rick N6RK
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