Kelly... I dug a 4 x 4 x 4 hole and hit Ohio Blue Clay about 6 inches down. With a pick and spud bar...I was removing golf to softball size chunks of clay. Borrowed an Bosch electric jackhammer from a plumber buddy and purchased a clay spade attachment. Worked like a champ. The bigger questions would be: 1. How are you going to get the tower back into your yard? 2. How are you going to move the concrete into your back yard? That's a lot to move by hand. Sounds to me like this isn't the house for you. Another angle would be to look at the Aluma crank-up towers with the mounting post option. You'd still need a six foot post hole...12-15" in diameter...but the concrete issue would go away...and you and a couple of buddies can carry the tower. My 50' only weighs 100#. The post weighs a between 200-300#. Good Luck... Ray From: "Kelly Johnson" > To: > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:52 PM > Subject: [TowerTalk] Digging a tower foundation hole > > > > There is a very good chance that (after 4 years of waiting and fighting > > with > > city planners) I am finally going to be allowed to install a tower: in > > another city of course. I will most likely go with a USTower HDX-555 (or > > similar). The house I am looking at may not have enough room to get a > > backhoe or bobcat into the back yard. Any suggestions as to how to get a > > hole dug? ___________________________________________________________________ Try Juno Platinum for Free! Then, only $9.95/month! Unlimited Internet Access with 250MB of Email Storage. Visit http://www.juno.com/value to sign up today!