[TowerTalk] Concrete base - tower

[john at kk9a.com]

I believe that AN Wireless also does this. It probably saves on concrete
however it is a significant amount of work. I do not recall what Rohn does
with their SSV tower bases. Does the Trylon have an alternate base design?
If permits are required in NL you might be stuck with their design.

John KK9A


To:	towertalk at contesting.com
Subject:	[TowerTalk] Concrete base - tower
From:	Larry Horlick <llhorlick at gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:29:59 -0230

I am preparing to install a 70' Trylon SuperTitan S500. Nothing is done at
this stage...I'm thinking about pouring the base first. Hi.

The manufacturer has supplied a drawing of the required concrete base. It
is a pad and pier design. Doing a pad and pier is significantly more work
(i.e. creating the form) than, say, just a rectangular block that I could
simply pour in the hole with very little form work.

My question is...Can do that? Can I change the pad/pier to a block, by
altering the dimensions, amount of rebar, etc. to arrive at an "equivalent"
to the pad/pier??

I welcome any relevant comments/questions/suggestions.


Larry
VO1FOG