[TowerTalk] deep base for MA-550

[Jerry Keller]

Yeah, well... no worries...maybe this thread has just about exhausted itself anyway :-)  Jerry K3BZ
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: FireBrick 
  To: Jerry Keller ; gdaught6 at stanford.edu ; towertalk at contesting.com ; Jim Rhodes 
  Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 9:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] deep base for MA-550


  Maybe I misread something or confused it with another email.
  Didn't he say that he was told to get a auger and auger in a hole?

  That would make it a cylinder.???

  But he did say 2.5 x 2.5 was the manufactures specifications I think.

  Maybe this is where I confused myself.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Jerry Keller" <k3bz at arrl.net>
  To: "FireBrick" <w9ol at billnjudy.com>; <gdaught6 at stanford.edu>;
  <towertalk at contesting.com>; "Jim Rhodes" <k0xu at iowadsl.net>
  Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 8:21 PM
  Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] deep base for MA-550


  You may be right for a cylinder....but he said 2.5 x 2.5 x 5.... that's not
  a cylinder.  Still, the calcs (1.157 vs 1.25) are not that much different.
  :-)  Jerry K3BZ
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: FireBrick
    To: Jerry Keller ; gdaught6 at stanford.edu ; towertalk at contesting.com ; Jim
  Rhodes
    Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 9:01 PM
    Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] deep base for MA-550


    I can't do that fancy math.
    But as a retired mason contractor...I can use a concrete calculating slide
    rule.
    (The redimix outfits used to hand them out free and you may ask your
    supplier, they may give you one)
    But...
    having said that,
    My calculator says that a 2"6" diameter pier, 5' deep would be 1 1/4
  yards.

    (we used to figure, 6 wheelbarrows to a yard for how much pushing would be
    required)


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Jerry Keller" <k3bz at arrl.net>
    To: <gdaught6 at stanford.edu>; <towertalk at contesting.com>; "Jim Rhodes"
    <k0xu at iowadsl.net>
    Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 7:40 PM
    Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] deep base for MA-550


    There are 27 cu ft in 1 cu yd (3 ft x 3 ft x 3 ft)...so 2.5 ft x 2.5 ft x
    5.0 ft = 31.25 cu ft... divided by 27 cu ft = 1.157 cu yd.  Jerry K3BZ
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Jim Rhodes
      To: gdaught6 at stanford.edu ; towertalk at contesting.com
      Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 8:19 PM
      Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] deep base for MA-550


      Hold on here. Isn't the formula pi*r^2*h=v? My calc says about 78.5 cu
  ft
      or 2.9 cu yds.

      Oh, I'm sorry. I just noticed the @stanford.edu.

      At 05:18 PM 10/4/03, gdaught6 at stanford.edu wrote:
      >On 4 Oct 2003 at 11:47, David Giuliani wrote:
      >
      > > I'm installing a concrete base for a Universal Towers MA-550.  The
      > > mfg's dwg calls for a base 2.5' x 2.5' x 5' deep in undisturbed
  soil,
      > > using 2.5 cubic yards.
      >
      >I calculate under 1.25 cubic yards for that hole.  You're going to
      >have a LOT of concrete left over.  3' x 3' x 6' is two yards.
      >
      >73,
      >
      >
      >
      >
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