[Towertalk] Tower base "solution"

[Chris BONDE]

With the SARCASM do I detect something like, "This might be an idea that 
will catch aon and it will ruin my business?" Note sarcasm.  It was just an 
idea that I have talked over with some others.  If the lamp standards, 
traffic control lights etc can use pre-cast blocks, and if, easier 
and  heaper why cannot ham towers.  Maybe you are correct in the engineer 
but why not have the engineer sign off on the cast in the hole, whcih cold 
be less controllable.

Cheers,

Chris opr VE7HCB



At 01:11 PM 2002-04-04 -0500, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 4/4/02 9:12:20 AM Pacific Standard Time, ve7hcb@rac.ca
>writes:
>
> > With somepeople using the crane to help put up the tower, why pour
> >  the  oncrete pad?
>
>     Uh...because it's what the manufacturer specs and your local building
>department requires?
>
> >  I have seen some large blocks of concrete put in the gound with a 
> crane to
> >  hold various traffic control lights.  Now most of these lights are off to
> >  the side of the block, so they should hold a number of towers.  Probably
>an
> >  adaptor for the cast in bolts would be all that is reuired.
>
>     Get an engineer to sign off on it and it sounds good to me. (Note:
>SARCASM.)
>
>     This is a typical amateur "solution" to something that is well 
> documented
>and understood already. Highly NOT RECOMMENDED unless an engineer blesses it.
>
>Cheers,
>Steve     K7LXC
>TOWER TECH -
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