[TowerTalk] Tower Foundation Pouring

[David Gilbert]

Generalizations like that typically don't make sense, and yours is no 
exception.  I built my house on a hillside and had to backfill against a 
six foot high retaining wall with hundreds of cubic yards of dirt that 
dirt that I excavated from the same undisturbed hillside.  I compacted 
the soil against the retaining wall in lifts of a few inches at a time 
using a 20 inch wide motorized plate compactor, with a sledge hammer to 
compact in the tight spots.  I estimate that the material I compacted 
was at least 30% more densely compacted that any of the soil I dug out 
for backfill (rocks excluded).

Dave   AB7E



On 2/3/2017 4:26 PM, Matt Lovewell wrote:
> You'll never get the soil back to natural compaction.
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