Jim,
I'll pay ya a couple of CASES to come do mine.....
73, Mike NF4L
On Dec 25, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> On 12/24/2013 6:29 AM, Mike Reublin NF4L wrote:
>> Did hole by hand,
>
> Both of my towers are in a dense redwood forest, at least 250 ft from a road
> or driveway. No possibility of mechanized digging or delivered concrete. I
> paid friends (who make their livings doing landscaping and gardening) to dig
> the holes, another ham helped me lay the gravel base in the bottom of the
> hole and build the rebar cage, we all used a wheelbarrow to drag the sand and
> dry concrete (bought from the local building supply yard) to the site, and
> mixed using their small portable mixer that we rolled through the woods to
> the tower base. The mixer was powered by a long AC cable run from the house,
> and water came from a very long garden hose.
>
> So my cost was nearly all labor, plus a couple of six-packs.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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