Must be nice to be able to build a tower anywhere and real special to
get an engineered report. Out here it's that spot or forget it,
anywhere won't do. If your target clients and backhaul can't see it,
it's no good. Out here unless you have million$ and can afford to build
a road to the site, then you're going to have to use your feet and drag
a shovel along and a lot of bags.
On 12/23/21 09:34, Brian Webster wrote:
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.
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