[TowerTalk] The tower base is poured BUT...

[Norman Hockler]

>
>Well look at the bright side....
>with all that concrete you can make the tower talled

Norman N8NH


>Hi Everyone
>
>well i got the hole for the TX472 dug yesterday , but,
>there was some confusion between me and the backhoe
>guy somehow... instead of a hole 5x5x6.5 i ended up
>with a really nice 5.5x7.5x7ft hole... it almost
>doubled my concrete bill... but that was just the
>begining of what was turning into a disaster... the
>concrete trucks showed up and promptly sunk to the
>frames in the yard... i expected some ruts but neither
>I nor the drivers thought the ground was that soft...
>now i had a real problem in that the backhoe was gone
>and i couldnt find another one... luckily my friend
>who was helping me owns a company with several
>backhoes etc... he made a phone call and had one of
>the backhoes rushed over to pull the trucks out and
>haul the concrete back to the hole... i was lucky that
>he was there, had it not been for that backhoe they
>were going to unload 11-12 yards of concrete into the
>yard in order to get the trucks out...
>
>but, in the end it all worked out and i have a tower
>base waiting for a tower and lots of yard work ahead
>of me... when i get the pix develped i'll figure out
>somewhere to post them so you all can have a good
>chuckle...
>
>Dan N8DCJ
>
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