[TowerTalk] FW: Digging tower base foundation

[Steve Harrison]

Some only go down to 6.5 feet, requiring doing that last foot-plus by
hand. Harbor Fright and Honda used to have a "towable mini-excavator"
(it was listed in HF's web page catalog as such until recently), but
both took them off the market a year or two ago for unknown reasons. I
suspect because neither's design appeared to have any secure means of
protecting the operator if the machine tipped or fell over. I've been
looking for one since finding out about them as I have many projects
they would greatly facilitate.

Steve, K0XP


On 3/23/2025 10:17 PM, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
> Make sure the mini can dig that deep.  I rented one for my MA-550 base
> and it was close.
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> On 3/23/2025 10:06 PM, maflukey at gmail.com wrote:
>> You might want to look into a mini-excavator.
>>
>> Matt
>> KM5VI
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>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Digging tower base foundation
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>> I intend to be putting up a tower that requires approximately 5'x5'x7.5'
>> deep hole.I cannot get a backhoe behind my house. My gate opens to 48".
>> Anyone knows of a device I can get back there to make the hole digging
>> easier and neater, other than shovels.
>> Art., N2KA
>> Arthur Bernstein
>> n2ka at verizon.net
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