[TowerTalk] Fair Price For Tower Foundation?

[Pat Masterson]

 Rich, I had a 7' hole dug for my tower, and they dug it by hand.
They also used wheelbarrows, no truck in the yard here either.
Cost me $1500, and I had about 5.5 yards of concrete.
Pictures of the job are at
http://www.qsl.net/wa2lqo/tower.html
-Pat

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, 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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