[TowerTalk] Concrete prices

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

On 12/25/2013 12:43 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 12/24/2013 6:29 AM, Mike Reublin NF4L wrote:
>> Did hole by hand,
>

A 60' tower will get you above 95% of the trees around here.

When I was younger and on the farm, it seemed like nearly every farm had 
a mixer, and piles of gravel and sand.  We'd purchase the cement by 80 
or 90 pound bags.  It was so many shovel of sand so many gravel and so 
many of cement. add water to the desired consistency. IIRC we'd have tho 
shoveling in, one on the wheelbarrow for sand and gravel and one or two 
hauling it to where ever.  Then there were those leveling and troweling. 
For a tower base, the mixer could set at one edge of the hole so you'd 
shovel in, mix, and dump!  It went fairly fast, but the set up and clean 
up took almost as long as the work.

I no longer remember how many shovels full of each and with only one 
working hand I don't think of that as a viable approach anyway.<:-))

73

Roger (K8RI)


> Both of my towers are in a dense redwood forest, at least 250 ft from 
> a road or driveway. No possibility of mechanized digging or delivered 
> concrete. I paid friends (who make their livings doing landscaping and 
> gardening) to dig the holes, another ham helped me lay the gravel base 
> in the bottom of the hole and build the rebar cage, we all used a 
> wheelbarrow to drag the sand and dry concrete (bought  from the local 
> building supply yard) to the site, and mixed using their small 
> portable mixer that we rolled through the woods to the tower base. The 
> mixer was powered by a long AC cable run from the house, and water 
> came from a very long garden hose.
>
> So my cost was nearly all labor, plus a couple of six-packs.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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