[TowerTalk] Fair Price For Tower Foundation?

[Steven H Sawyers (na0ia)]

Basically $300 for the material, and $350 for labor and equipment sounds pretty reasonable to me. 

A backhoe can be hired for $60 per hour and the transit time and dig would be a couple of hours then 2 to 4 hours for two workers to form and pour and finish the concrete.

I would jump at it.

Steve

At 06:36 PM 8/1/00 -0500, David Rich wrote:
>
>I need a 4.5 foot by 4.5 foot by 5 foot deep hole dug for my tower
>foundation. I need about 4 cubic yards of concrete for the foundation.
>I received a quote from a local contractor to dig the hole and pour the
>concrete for $650.
>
>The price of 4000 pound concrete is $74 / cubic yard in the Kansas City
>area.  A concrete truck can not get into my back yard and the hole is 25
>foot away from the nearest place the concrete truck can park.  The
>contractor wants to use a gas or diesel powered cart that can hold 1/4
>cubic yards of concrete per trip.
>
>I have never done this before and wondered if any of you feel that $650
>is a reasonable quote?
>
>Thank You,
>Dave kg0us@swbell.net
>
>
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