[TowerTalk] Tower Base Installed Above Ground

[Dave - AB7E]

Just to be on the safe side, you might also want to check to make sure there isn't some sort of easement restriction for that electrical run to the commercial building.  It's probably not an issue in practice, but there could be something on paper that limits what you can build over such a line.

73,
Dave   Ab7E



------Original Mail------
From: "Robert West" <robert.west at just-micro.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:40:37 -0400
Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower Base Installed Above Ground

I have this BX64 tower that I'm fixing up and want to install it next to the
shop at home.  The Dig Safe people came out and marked it all and I now see
that the only place the city will allow me to put this thing is covered with
gas lines, water line and an underground electric cable running across the
property to a commercial building behind me.  

 

Is it possible to dig down a couple of feet, put in a compacted gravel mix
and then build a reinforced box on top of it with a rebar cage and pour 5
years of concrete in it and use this as the base?  I can also bracket it to
the building, which is concrete block, up to 13 feet.  I've seen it done
with tower installations where there is rock but they are able to bond it
with anchors in the rock.   I don't seem to be able to have that luxury,
only gravity.  Is this kosher to attempt this route?  I'm going to shoot off
an email to Rohn with this but wanted to know if anyone here has went this
way before.

 

And will 5 yards of concrete sitting on top of soil shift considerably over
time?  I'd really hate to have another reason for the wife to give me "that
look".  J

 

Thanks guys.

 

Bob-

 

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