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The fun continues. My wife and I were able to take down the Maco V58 and 30' mast last weekend with the only damage to antenna or bodies being a tiny bend in one of the ground plane radials. I won't be re-using them when it goes back up so no problem there.

Early yesterday morning before work I was able to dig the 2' W x 2' L x 2' 6" deep hole for the concrete base. I could have used some type of C4 or other assist to get through was is laughingly called topsoil here. I have a bit of straightening to do on the sides but I am not going to do that until right before the concrete goes in. That was supposed to be this morning but when I went to pick up the concrete mixer from the rental place, the guy that had it yesterday decided to keep it another day so I am SOL. I suppose I could mix the 20 or so 60# bags by hand but I did 13 of them a few weeks ago and that was about 13 too many. Now it is supposed to rain for the next few days so I'm looking at Tuesday before I can try the concrete again. If I can get the mixer. I've been looking for a used one locally to buy but so far no luck.

The tilting base I made out of 1/4" thick steel will sit on the two lengths of angle iron with the J-bolts in place and down in the concrete. There will (should) be about a 1/8" to 3/16" gap between the bottom of the base plate and top of the concrete when I'd done for some levelling room with washers. I figured it'd be easier to the 12" x 5/8" anchor bolts already aligned to the base plate instead of installing the anchor bolts and hope they stay in place. Who knows, this may come back to bit me on the six but it makes sense in my brain.

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<blockquote data-quote="TimmyTheTorch" data-source="post: 818781" data-attributes="member: 64271">The fun continues. My wife and I were able to take down the Maco V58 and 30&#039; mast last weekend with the only damage to antenna or bodies being a tiny bend in one of the ground plane radials. I won&#039;t be re-using them when it goes back up so no problem there.Early yesterday morning before work I was able to dig the 2&#039; W x 2&#039; L x 2&#039; 6&quot; deep hole for the concrete base. I could have used some type of C4 or other assist to get through was is laughingly called topsoil here. I have a bit of straightening to do on the sides but I am not going to do that until right before the concrete goes in. That was supposed to be this morning but when I went to pick up the concrete mixer from the rental place, the guy that had it yesterday decided to keep it another day so I am SOL. I suppose I could mix the 20 or so 60# bags by hand but I did 13 of them a few weeks ago and that was about 13 too many. Now it is supposed to rain for the next few days so I&#039;m looking at Tuesday before I can try the concrete again. If I can get the mixer. I&#039;ve been looking for a used one locally to buy but so far no luck.The tilting base I made out of 1/4&quot; thick steel will sit on the two lengths of angle iron with the J-bolts in place and down in the concrete. There will (should) be about a 1/8&quot; to 3/16&quot; gap between the bottom of the base plate and top of the concrete when I&#039;d done for some levelling room with washers. I figured it&#039;d be easier to the 12&quot; x 5/8&quot; anchor bolts already aligned to the base plate instead of installing the anchor bolts and hope they stay in place. Who knows, this may come back to bit me on the six but it makes sense in my brain. [ATTACH=full]64310[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]64311[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TimmyTheTorch, post: 818781, member: 64271"] The fun continues. My wife and I were able to take down the Maco V58 and 30' mast last weekend with the only damage to antenna or bodies being a tiny bend in one of the ground plane radials. I won't be re-using them when it goes back up so no problem there. Early yesterday morning before work I was able to dig the 2' W x 2' L x 2' 6" deep hole for the concrete base. I could have used some type of C4 or other assist to get through was is laughingly called topsoil here. I have a bit of straightening to do on the sides but I am not going to do that until right before the concrete goes in. That was supposed to be this morning but when I went to pick up the concrete mixer from the rental place, the guy that had it yesterday decided to keep it another day so I am SOL. I suppose I could mix the 20 or so 60# bags by hand but I did 13 of them a few weeks ago and that was about 13 too many. Now it is supposed to rain for the next few days so I'm looking at Tuesday before I can try the concrete again. If I can get the mixer. I've been looking for a used one locally to buy but so far no luck. The tilting base I made out of 1/4" thick steel will sit on the two lengths of angle iron with the J-bolts in place and down in the concrete. There will (should) be about a 1/8" to 3/16" gap between the bottom of the base plate and top of the concrete when I'd done for some levelling room with washers. I figured it'd be easier to the 12" x 5/8" anchor bolts already aligned to the base plate instead of installing the anchor bolts and hope they stay in place. Who knows, this may come back to bit me on the six but it makes sense in my brain. [ATTACH type="full"]64310[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]64311[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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