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I had Digger's Hotline come and check the place I was planning on putting the 4'x4'x4' concrete base for the tower and found out I have both cable and electrical services running right through the dig zone. I was told I am not allowed to move the service lines myself nor can I just dig around them and encase them in concrete. I don't really have a second spot where I can get agreement within my household to put up a tower so I downsized to a 2'x2'x2.5' pad for a tilt mast base. It's probably turned into more work and expense than it would have been to stick with the tower and pay to get the services moved.

I'm making this as robust as possible with a strong concrete base, two connection points to the house and six guy wires split across two guy wire rings. If it fails, well, it won't be my first failure nor my last. I'll just regroup and move on.

<blockquote data-quote="TimmyTheTorch" data-source="post: 820153" data-attributes="member: 64271">I had Digger&#039;s Hotline come and check the place I was planning on putting the 4&#039;x4&#039;x4&#039; concrete base for the tower and found out I have both cable and electrical services running right through the dig zone. I was told I am not allowed to move the service lines myself nor can I just dig around them and encase them in concrete. I don&#039;t really have a second spot where I can get agreement within my household to put up a tower so I downsized to a 2&#039;x2&#039;x2.5&#039; pad for a tilt mast base. It&#039;s probably turned into more work and expense than it would have been to stick with the tower and pay to get the services moved.I&#039;m making this as robust as possible with a strong concrete base, two connection points to the house and six guy wires split across two guy wire rings. If it fails, well, it won&#039;t be my first failure nor my last. I&#039;ll just regroup and move on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TimmyTheTorch, post: 820153, member: 64271"] I had Digger's Hotline come and check the place I was planning on putting the 4'x4'x4' concrete base for the tower and found out I have both cable and electrical services running right through the dig zone. I was told I am not allowed to move the service lines myself nor can I just dig around them and encase them in concrete. I don't really have a second spot where I can get agreement within my household to put up a tower so I downsized to a 2'x2'x2.5' pad for a tilt mast base. It's probably turned into more work and expense than it would have been to stick with the tower and pay to get the services moved. I'm making this as robust as possible with a strong concrete base, two connection points to the house and six guy wires split across two guy wire rings. If it fails, well, it won't be my first failure nor my last. I'll just regroup and move on. [/QUOTE]

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