[TowerTalk] Digging The Hole

[Dick Green WC1M]

Believe it or not, once the Zoning Administrator decided that my 110' tower
conforms to the town ordinance (a loophole eliminates the height
restriction), the only thing the building department cared about was that I
had a Ufer ground. I guess they had done some reading about tower Ufer
grounds. I had already planned one -- three 50' runs of 1/0 tied to the
rebar cage and bottom section (pier pin), exothermically welded to 8' ground
rods every 16'. The inspector came out to check it just before the pour,
then never came back to inspect the final structure.

73, Dick WC1M

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Sawyer [mailto:sawyered at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 12:51 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Digging The Hole

Even if an inspector comes out, they would not necessarily care that there
were clean box edges.  They would be typically looking for "lot line set
back adherence" of an auxiliary structure as well as the reinforcement
structure.  But I would be surprised that they would care about the edges
being clean vs pouring up to the undisturbed soil.

 

I had to pull a permit here for the towers, but they were never inspected.
When they came to inspect the house foundation footings before pouring, they
were only concerned about the as built outline and set back matching the
permit submission.

 

73

 

Ed  N1uR

Vermont