[TowerTalk] house bracket on tubular tower

[K0FF]

Dave, I don't think the mud will run down a tough too well, maybe wrong, but
if you get hung up mid job, there's tons of material to coax along. Don't
know how much concrete you're getting, but my biggest base weighs 125,000
pounds!
 Maybe try a Gunite operator? They use a pump an hose to spray the stuff on
swimming pools, so I don't know why you couldn't hose it in for a tower.
Catch them before the late spring pool rush.

GL, Geo>K0FF
----- Original Message -----
From: David LaBat <dlabat@tcinternet.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 8:08 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] house bracket on tubular tower


> After taking everything sent to me, both onlist and off, first I owe
> everyone thanks for all the information. Second, I am not going to put the
> tower up brasketed to the house, since there is no way to get to the roof
> trusses short of taking the roof off!
>     The situation makes it so that I can only put the tower in one
location:
> dodging flak from the local restricitve covenants group. Yes I probably
can
> put it in the front yard, but the compromise is they won't sue if I keep
> it"out of sight" when not extended. Also, and maybe more importantly the
XYL
> said thats where its going! There is no way to get the roof trusses on a
> vaulted ceiling with no attic!
>
>     So I am going to wait out the winter and in the spring put in my new
US
> tower MA550 on a US tower self-support mount with a lot more concrete. Any
> volunteers to help move the mud? The truck can only get within about
75feet
> of the hole location. It is downhill so my question is:
>     1) Will it run, through a trough, downhill with a 8 foot slope over
that
> 75 feet?
>     2) Anybody got a base they want to sell? Otherwise my tower price just
> doubled in budget with the extra concrete and the base. Thats why I am
> waiting until spring $$$.
>
> Thanks, es 73
> Dave K0XH (listening only on a short wire)
>
>
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