"Wes Stewart" wrote in message
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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???


Some, not all.
Electrically desirable, but the main concern was making the base stable
during the pour.
Now I'm sinking an array of ground rods.

These guys build power lines, for God's sake, they're moonlighting.

Ever see how many frickin' towers power line engineers build?

Get a life.

This is a child's fantasy that's come to fruition after 42 years.

And if I save one sailor's life on the Maritime Net it's worth it all.

73

H.

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