[TowerTalk] Tower base hole?

[Bill Marx]

Look up Concrete Contractors in your local yellow pages and call a few.
Bill Marx W2CQ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [TowerTalk] Re: Tower base hole?


> Just checked on the web for local places that actually have prices for
> drilling (big) holes... looks like 150-200/hr is the going price for the
> auger rigs (and that includes the operator).. roughly twice what the same
> company charges for a backhoe w/operator. So the question is whether you can
> drill the required hole twice as fast as you can dig it, and whether a
> 3,4,or 5 foot diameter round hole is a better solution for your problem than
> a 4,5,or 6 foot square hole is.
>
> They have all manner of clever drill rigs available, too, that can get into
> difficult locations (around here, there are people who need to have holes
> drilled for support piers on steep hillsides, as retrofits for
> "mansionization" (tear down the 500 sq ft beach shack on a tiny lot and
> erect the 4200 sq ft 3 story house), and so forth.  Clearly, there is a lot
> of art in this big hole drilling business...
>
>
>
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