I hope to pour in August, but I too have water. If it's only a few inches, is
it worth worrying about?
73, Kelly
ve4xt
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> On Jul 26, 2015, at 13:31, "Patrick Greenlee" <patrick_g@windstream.net>
> wrote:
>
> My next tower install is coming late this summer or early fall (depending on
> when the tower is built/shipped. I fully expect the hole 4x4x8 ft to at
> least partially fill up from ground water if I don't take precautions. Even
> during the recent record setting drought I had ground water within 5 ft of
> the surface but this is NOT a drought year.
>
> Boat launching ramps are poured into forms fully submerged as concrete easily
> displaces the water without being "watered down." My concern is that the
> walls of the hole, if significantly soaked, may collapse. So I may put a sump
> pump in the hole with a float switch to keep the water pumped down to a
> couple inches. I'll build a little cubical wood frame and cover it with
> geotextile to filter out solids and not let the pump clog.
>
> Patrick NJ5G
>
>> On 7/25/2015 11:14 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote:
>> I had no problem keeping it wet. The spring water table was just a couple
>> inches below the surface. We kept a sump pump running until the concrete was
>> being poured into the hole. It was a good dry mix relatively speaking, yet
>> when the concrete reached the top, it was pushing out water.
>>
>> As I was breaking up the over flow a couple weeks later, someone asked,
>> "Wouldn't it be easier to just paint it green?" The dirt under the hardened
>> overflow was still soggy. So other than sprinkling the surface, keeping it
>> wet was not a problem<:-)
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Roger (K8RI)
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