Concrete base should always be engineered after you have s soil boring and report done for you specific location. I built a lot of towers and the concrete costs are always high when some says "we assumed normal soils report", meaning they used generalized soils composition maps and over engineered the base design to cover their ass. The cost to have a local engineering company do a boring and soils report test usually saves you money in how much you don't spend in an overbuilt concrete base. An additional benefit to this report is you usually get a conductivity report as well. This will tell you what you will need for proper grounding of the site.
Thank you, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com -----Original Message----- From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2021 12:15 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Musco Towers https://www.musco.com/wireless-structures/ Anybody used these or know about pricing? We seem to have a growing need for 60-100' towers, but the concrete cost is always the killer. Seems like this would need a smaller concrete base, and doesn't need all the forming and curing time. Years ago we did a project for a municipality, and they put in a 50' light pole for us to attach a single SM to, but they just backfilled the precast base with aggregate and did start to finish in a couple hours. It was just a normal streetlight pole though, no pegs or anything. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
