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Re: [TowerTalk] The tower base is poured BUT...

To: "Alan Beagley" <ab2os@optonline.net>, <N8DCJ@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] The tower base is poured BUT...
From: "Chuck Dietz" <w5pr@swbell.net>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 11:37:30 -0500
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I went through a similar experience.  It took two concrete truck loads to do
three tower bases after the backhoe guy got through with them.  NEVER let a
full size backhoe near a tower base hole!

Chuck W5PR

> On 10/04/03 02:14 pm dan bookwalter put fingers to keyboard and launched
> the following message into cyberspace:
>
> > well i got the hole for the TX472 dug yesterday , but,
> > there was some confusion between me and the backhoe
> > guy somehow... instead of a hole 5x5x6.5 i ended up
> > with a really nice 5.5x7.5x7ft hole... it almost
> > doubled my concrete bill... but that was just the
> > begining of what was turning into a disaster... the
> > concrete trucks showed up and promptly sunk to the
> > frames in the yard... i expected some ruts but neither
> > I nor the drivers thought the ground was that soft...
> > now i had a real problem in that the backhoe was gone
> > and i couldnt find another one... luckily my friend
> > who was helping me owns a company with several
> > backhoes etc... he made a phone call and had one of
> > the backhoes rushed over to pull the trucks out and
> > haul the concrete back to the hole... i was lucky that
> > he was there, had it not been for that backhoe they
> > were going to unload 11-12 yards of concrete into the
> > yard in order to get the trucks out...
> >
> > but, in the end it all worked out and i have a tower
> > base waiting for a tower and lots of yard work ahead
> > of me... when i get the pix develped i'll figure out
> > somewhere to post them so you all can have a good
> > chuckle...
>
>
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