[TowerTalk] RE: Tower base drainage problem

[Mike Lamb]

Tom,

I have responded to this in another message, so I won't repeat myself here.
I did want to say that if you fill the base section of the tower with
concrete, make good and sure that you have a weep hole in the BOTTOM  of the
next section so than water collecting above will have a place to go.  I
suspect that even you people in the south occassionally get some freezing
weather, ha.

73/Mike,N7ML.

Tom Gerdes Jr. wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> I also have a Universal tower, but it's the 21-70. The legs may be
> different since mine are filled with concrete and allow no water to
> enter the base. That's how I was told to put it in. Although I didn't do
> the work myself, the HAMs that did agreed on filling the base legs. The
> hole ended up a little larger than what was called for and there is
> about 8 cu. yds. of concrete going down about 7 feet with a 4" top. With
> this base, I don't think the tower will be going anywhere soon. What is
> the reasoning behind NOT filling the legs with concrete? Is it that they
> are just constructed differently than the 30" base legs? I don't have my
> info on the Universal line of towers at hand, but it just may be your
> base legs are different if they are the smaller ones.
>
> Tom
>
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