Re: [TowerTalk] The tower base is poured BUT...

[Norman Hockler <norsan@bright.net>]

> Well look at the bright side....
> with all that concrete you can make the tower talled

Norman N8NH


> Hi Everyone
>
> well i got the hole for the TX472 dug yesterday , but,
> there was some confusion between me and the backhoe
> guy somehow... instead of a hole 5x5x6.5 i ended up
> with a really nice 5.5x7.5x7ft hole... it almost
> doubled my concrete bill... but that was just the
> begining of what was turning into a disaster... the
> concrete trucks showed up and promptly sunk to the
> frames in the yard... i expected some ruts but neither
> I nor the drivers thought the ground was that soft...
> now i had a real problem in that the backhoe was gone
> and i couldnt find another one... luckily my friend
> who was helping me owns a company with several
> backhoes etc... he made a phone call and had one of
> the backhoes rushed over to pull the trucks out and
> haul the concrete back to the hole... i was lucky that
> he was there, had it not been for that backhoe they
> were going to unload 11-12 yards of concrete into the
> yard in order to get the trucks out...
>
> but, in the end it all worked out and i have a tower
> base waiting for a tower and lots of yard work ahead
> of me... when i get the pix develped i'll figure out
> somewhere to post them so you all can have a good
> chuckle...
>
> Dan N8DCJ
>
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