[TowerTalk] Pad and Pier Foundations

[Dick Green WC1M]

Yes, I inquired about the alternative base for the heavy-duty 100-footer.
It's on the order of 9'x9'x6' (not sure about that depth -- might be 9'!)
Anyway, that seemed like an awfully large base for a tower capable of only
15.6 sq ft of windload.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan NV8A (ex. AB2OS) [mailto:nv8a at att.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:08 PM
> To: towertalk reflector
> Cc: wc1m at msn.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Pad and Pier Foundations
> 
> 
> 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.
>