[TowerTalk] Pad and Pier Foundations

[Alan NV8A (ex. AB2OS)]

AN Wireless does provide drawings for a solid-block foundation as well: 
more concrete but likely less labor and perhaps therefore cheaper.

73

Alan


On 07/12/05 07:07 pm Dick Green WC1M tossed the following ingredients 
into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

> I also agree with whoever said these pad-pier base designs are rediculous. I
> looked at getting an AN-Wireless tower, which is otherwise a nice
> cost-effective solution for medium loads, and couldn't get past the base
> design. They seem to sell a lot of towers to amateurs, so they really should
> rethink the base. BTW, both the fixed Bertha and Big Bertha sold by Array
> Solutions use a square block type base. Those monsters have *huge* windload
> capacity. I don't have specs on the base, but judging from some pictures
> I've seen the fixed Bertha base is on the order of 6'x'6'x6'. Although I've
> stood on the base for NT1Y's Big Bertha (140' rotating pole that's something
> like 3 feet in diameter at the base) and *that's* a real chunk of concrete.