[TowerTalk] Looking for some foundation advice

[Mac]

I gotta grin here on this, locally most folks are going for 900' plus 
for water, and here on this hill I'm on add another 550' to get water, 
thru rock most, if not all the way. Be keen to see how you or what you 
do to solve this ...

best:  mac/mc  w5mc

On 5/27/2020 5:44 PM, Don Solberg wrote:
> I was planning on purchasing a used US Tower HDX-572, 72 ft crank up
> tower.  It looks like I may have run into a problem with the foundation.  I
> had some trenching done today for a new well and discovered that the ground
> water level is just slightly lower than 6ft.  US Tower specifications call
> from a 7.5 foot deep hole. My soil is mostly sand, so in addition to not
> being able to go down 7.5 ft, I probably also want to make the foundation
> wider.
>
> Is it practical to put up the 72ft tower with a wider pad, or should I look
> at getting a smaller 55ft tower?  Another alternative is find another
> location for the tower.  I have about a 10 ft hill on another property that
> I own across a gravel road.  This would most likely eliminate the ground
> water problem but I would have about a 300 ft cable run and I would have to
> trench across the town's gravel road.
>
> I am looking for recommendations.
>
> 73,
>
> Don K9AQ
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