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fader
| Posted on Monday, December 30, 2002 - 5:26 pm: |
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If only we could put this up in our backyard. Antenna Project |
Radiodude
| Posted on Monday, December 30, 2002 - 9:58 pm: |
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wow |
Tech833
| Posted on Monday, December 30, 2002 - 11:43 pm: |
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Welcome to my world. |
Crafter
| Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 1:36 am: |
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You know you got to say WOW ! |
bruce
| Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 7:29 am: |
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There is NO way Seminole would let me do that EVEN if i could get the wife to let me do it |
Karatebutcher
| Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 9:30 am: |
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Hi Bruce, whats it worth to you ha ha |
bruce
| Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 11:58 am: |
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Karate That tower is bigger than the local radio station ( Must be nice ) |
Tech833
| Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 12:18 pm: |
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Last year we put up a 400 foot free-standing tower. Each leg has a hole measuring 12 foot square by 30 feet deep. Then, they all intersect with a 6 foot thick pad below that. I wish I had known you guys were in to seeing this sort of thing, I would have posted pictures! Sorry. |
bruce
| Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 1:01 pm: |
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833 it that tower fell this town would be gone HE HE HE |
Highlander
| Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 1:04 pm: |
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What kind of $$ would we be talking here? |
Scrapiron63
| Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 1:38 pm: |
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I was in the construction business before I retired, didn't do any tower work, but did put in the concrete bases for some commercial towers. The ones I done were not free standing, and I was surprised at the base for the tower itself. They were not that large, around 6-8 cubic yards of concrete I believe, with one large bolt the base of the tower sit on. Now the bases for the guy cables were a different story, they were much larger than the tower base, 2 or 3 times as much concrete best I can remember. Of course the cables are what keep the things standing. scrapiron |
Tech833
| Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 12:56 pm: |
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On a guyed tower, the base only serves the purpose of not moving laterally and not sinking. The reason guyed towers use a pin at the base is so the base can rotate. Not for aiming antennas, but so that the guy wires don't twist the tower base and weaken it. |
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