Yes, I inquired about the alternative base for the heavy-duty 100-footer.
It's on the order of 9'x9'x6' (not sure about that depth -- might be 9'!)
Anyway, that seemed like an awfully large base for a tower capable of only
15.6 sq ft of windload.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan NV8A (ex. AB2OS) [mailto:nv8a@att.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:08 PM
> To: towertalk reflector
> Cc: wc1m@msn.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Pad and Pier Foundations
>
>
> AN Wireless does provide drawings for a solid-block
> foundation as well:
> more concrete but likely less labor and perhaps therefore cheaper.
>
> 73
>
> Alan
>
>
> On 07/12/05 07:07 pm Dick Green WC1M tossed the following ingredients
> into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:
>
> > I also agree with whoever said these pad-pier base designs are
> > rediculous. I looked at getting an AN-Wireless tower, which is
> > otherwise a nice cost-effective solution for medium loads, and
> > couldn't get past the base design. They seem to sell a lot
> of towers
> > to amateurs, so they really should rethink the base. BTW, both the
> > fixed Bertha and Big Bertha sold by Array Solutions use a
> square block
> > type base. Those monsters have *huge* windload capacity. I
> don't have
> > specs on the base, but judging from some pictures I've seen
> the fixed
> > Bertha base is on the order of 6'x'6'x6'. Although I've
> stood on the
> > base for NT1Y's Big Bertha (140' rotating pole that's
> something like 3
> > feet in diameter at the base) and *that's* a real chunk of concrete.
>
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