[TowerTalk] Rebar cage for tower footing

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Bob
   How bout you set the rebar on chairs then pour it all at once.
                           JOE KG4VBR
> 
> From: "Mike Rhodes" <weightdn at adelphia.net>
> Date: 2003/08/10 Sun PM 04:21:24 EDT
> To: "Tower Talk" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Rebar cage for tower footing
> 
> Bob,
>   Not a Civil Engineer by any stretch of the imagination but one of the
> reasons for not having the rebar breach the concrete is rust. That exposed
> end will make a super-highway for rust and assuming there is a path,
> eventually there will be no more rebar in your concrete. Instead there will
> be nice 1/2 inch paths with nothing but air - or worse - moisture in them.
>   No idea where or when I read it but seem to recall the proper method is to
> put something like paving stones of the appropriate size under the rebar
> such that, when the concrete is poured, the paving stones keep the rebar
> waway from the surrounding earth and themselves become sealed in the
> concrete.
> 
> Mike / W8DN
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Gates" <regates at kingwoodcable.com>
> To: "Tower Talk" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:11 PM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Rebar cage for tower footing
> 
> 
> > I've noted the UST footing design for most/all their towers, and they
> specify a
> > rebar cage with the vertical pieces set approximately 3" above the bottom
> of the
> > footing.  This is obviously a clumsy undertaking in the real world,
> because it
> > would entail pouring 3" of concrete in the hole, let it set up, insert the
> cage
> > and continue the pour.  After 30 years in the construction business, I've
> seen a
> > few footings poured, and many were designed by engineers who never had to
> > actually install their designs, such as spread footings which are
> extremely
> > labor intensive, and for no reason.  To make a long question short, any
> civil
> > engineers out there who see a problem with the rebar cage sitting on the
> dirt
> > floor of the hole and pouring around it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bob KG7KW
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JOE PATRICK
SENIOR PLUMBING/MECHANICAL
INSPECTOR CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH