[TowerTalk] Tower base hole?

[Jerry Keller]

Good luck getting any backhoe operator to sign up to such an agreement.  He
would have to be a little crazy, or maybe charging enough to cover the risk.
Nobody knows for sure what's under the ground.  There's too many variables,
like rocks, etc. It's hard to be that exact with the dimensions too,
although I've seen one guy that would have come pretty close.  (He charges
more, and he wasn't available.) I('m not unhappy with the final result.
Jerry K3BZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale L Martin" <kg5u at hal-pc.org>
To: "TowerTalk Reflector" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 1:53 PM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Tower base hole?


>
>
>
> > Their advance man had said it was OK for
> > the truck, it would fit between the trees, so I was "off the hook" for
all
> > that labor.
>
> Interesting.
>
> Shouldn't you have also been 'off the hook' for the additional concrete
> costs you sustained by the backhoe operator giving you a
> larger-than-requested/ordered hole?
>
> Is backhoeing what the backhoe operator does for a living?
>
> If so, it seems to me that it's awfully unprofessional/unbusinesslike to
> give the customer a hole larger than ordered/requested knowing the
customer
> will have to pay for more concrete/material to fill it.
>
> Might be a good point for others hiring backhoe & operator to stipulate in
> writing that any excess hole size costs are to be borne by the backhoe
> operator.
>
> ???
>
> 73,
> dale, kg5u
>
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