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fader
Posted on Monday, December 30, 2002 - 5:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
If only we could put this up in our backyard.

Antenna Project
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Radiodude
Posted on Monday, December 30, 2002 - 9:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
wow
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Tech833
Posted on Monday, December 30, 2002 - 11:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Welcome to my world.
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Crafter
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 1:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
You know you got to say WOW !
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bruce
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 7:29 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
There is NO way Seminole would let me do that EVEN if i could get the wife to let me do it
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Karatebutcher
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 9:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Hi Bruce, whats it worth to you ha ha
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bruce
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 11:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Karate

That tower is bigger than the local radio station

( Must be nice )
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Tech833
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 12:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
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.
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bruce
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 1:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
833 it that tower fell this town would be gone HE HE HE
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Highlander
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 1:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
What kind of $$ would we be talking here?
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Scrapiron63
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 1:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
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
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Tech833
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 12:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
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.