On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:52:31 -0600, "H. Adam Stevens, NQ5H"
wrote:

|Hi gang
|I've been trading insults with many of you for more than a few years and I
|value you all, even Cecil.
|Us Teasips need Aggies, and they need us, they just won't admit it.
|
|Last week I dug the hole for the tower I promised myself 42 years ago.
|
|Monday the backhoe truck broke down.
|
|Tuesday another backhoe showed up but the operator didn't have the key.
|
|Wednesday the hole got dug. It turned out a bit big, but you can't have too
|much concrete.
|-It's a 48' Trylon self-supporting tower.
|
|Thursday I waited all day.
|
|Friday afternoon, after waiting all day Thursday, the rebar and tower base
|were installed and welded together.
|-The tower base was plumbed with a laser transit.
|
|Monday, 7AM, poured the concrete, done by noon.
|
|After the two week cure, the crane comes.
|
|More then.
|73
|H.
|

You welded the rebar???