[TowerTalk] Tower Problems

[Stan Stockton]

Mike.  Is it a free standing tower or a guyed tower?

Stan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Goins" <wmgoins at gmail.com>
To: "Mickey Baker" <fishflorida at gmail.com>
Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Problems


> Wish that would work here. I'm nearly all solid rock. I have a hole 
> started,
> but through rock and many days of jackhammering, which is tough at 61. 
> I
> have a big (as in VW sized big) rock in the hole that I am chipping 
> away at,
> but I need someone who either can drill holes for the ends of the cage 
> to
> drop into after cutting the bottom brace off (and then re-weld it back 
> on
> about 10" higher), or who can help me get down about another 2-2-1/2 
> feet or
> so.
>
> Getting really frustrated here. Haven't had a tower and decent 
> directional
> antenna up since the 80's and really want to get this up and 
> operational.
>
> Mike, k5wmg
> Pipe Creek, Texas
> Green cars, slow boats, big dogs, old trucks, little radios, and 
> summers off
> to write
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Mickey Baker <fishflorida at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I hired a guy with a backhoe who brought two fellows who spoke 
>> neither
>> English nor Spanish to dig my last foundation. A few hundred dollars 
>> and 3
>> hours later, I had the base rebar cage hanging in the hole and most 
>> of the
>> dirt loaded on a dump truck headed elsewhere.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Mickey N4MB
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Michael Goins <wmgoins at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah. Can't seem to find local help getting the get base hole done 
>>> in the
>>> rock I have here. Quad parts just sitting in the garage, waiting on 
>>> the
>>> tower. Some help and one good weekend and I'd be ready for concrete.
>>>
>>> Mike, k5wmg
>>> Pipe Creek, Texas
>>> Green cars, slow boats, big dogs, old trucks, little radios, and 
>>> summers
>>> off
>>> to write
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:20 PM, <flastormwatcher at aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > So you think you've got tower problems?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >  73 Dave KB3GYN
>>> >
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Mickey Baker
>> Fort Lauderdale, FL
>> “Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve 
>> me,
>> and I will learn.” Teton Lakota, American Indian Saying.
>>
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