Ham Radio Tower on Homestead Easy DIY

what's up my people new site here we got a ham radio cell tower or not cell tower but radio tower concrete base first time installing one of these it's only six by six by four foot deep got the backhoe got jj over there we're going to excavate this is the actual concrete base tower on the inside line outside line's over dig we may go a little bigger not sure gonna shoot some elevations here on a little slope get it going laser is set we're ready to dig all right we're hitting shale as we thought but i'm only a couple inches to go to our grade and we're gonna pound it out [Music] all right all dug to depth like i said we hit some shale just in the nick of time we had one knob here that gave us tough time we beat it with the teeth and uh pickaxes and got it but everything's ready to be formed up i got these pre-made 4x8 sheets of plywood that i had over the years that i do little stub walls with and that's what we're gonna use i'm gonna have to cut them down cut them down all right five foot nine on these boards we got them going it's a five nine five nine square uh this this concrete pour so we just got to cut these down five nine then i'll let the other ones run by or whatever if we got the broom in the hole we might have to cut them all we'll see [Music] all right we got three sides cut here's our last one cut we just skipped it together like so the two pieces that were left over it was figured like that so we'd have to cut another eight footer don't like cutting those eight footers we'll put this one in get them screwed together all right we got four corners just tacked together nothing's uh is it square but nothing's joint yet joint with uh we're gonna put screws in screw it in a few spots pin it in a few spots and then start putting the bracing inside we have a we have a the tower actually has to go down in on some blocks down in there we got to make sure that stays true and pour in all around it which you'll see in a bit so we got a box five nine by five nine by four foot deep all right all right all right got the tower all braced set in on eight inch blocks that's what calls for code eight inches off the ground so that our concrete is above or below these uh joints here these nuts and then we'll put a quarter inch pitch on this thing maybe a half inch pitch just keep it down in the form a little bit that's all the tolerance we have i put more bands around here for more bracing i'm kind of sketched out about this much weight on just this forms without its kind of freestanding form but it's all screwed together i didn't want to backfill against here we tried putting rebar down in there but we're all on shale beds so i can't do nothing and then we can't bang these down in to put our rebar inside so we're gonna wet set it with the rebar we'll have it all bent and as we're pouring we're gonna set it all in it in the right uh increments but everything's plumb and straight because that is all going to be set in the concrete and we have these bracings on here to hold it from sliding left to right i shot with a laser all those blocks so everything's good then we put the level on it and plumbed it made sure it was good we're good inspection came it's all good to go got concrete tomorrow back on site i bent these 90s yesterday just going over to print last night that's not what it calls for just calls for a one foot mat on the bottom one foot mat on the top or number three uh or not number three number three bars we got number four bars for extra strength that's all we ever use half inch and then uh it either called that or wire mesh but obviously we weren't going to try to bend wire meshing i'd rather use the rebar we're going to wet set it pour foot up in there vibrate it set the bars this way set the bars this way come back up again and set the other 10. [Music] all right rebar is cut 20 pieces we're just going to brace this off the wall like so where it could blow out we're going to put bracing down like this and pin it with other boards i'll show you how that's going to work so you just find a board that fits good in there like so oh sorry i can't see then put another board grab another board bud and i'm gonna wedge them all in wedge them right to the bank all right i got all my bracing on the corners and in the center it's just pinned in and so we could just strip it easy boop boop instead of backfilling this it's really uh a lot easier to do this just to keep pinning it with wood got rocks i got all kinds of crazy things going on so here's our print you can see the w that's our width and you go down to w over here and it gives you your five nine uh it's pretty simple you got your a right there which is 18 inches off the face which is this triangle right there 18 inches you make sure that and these were like 26. every all the dimensions are there and there's your rebar schedule or wire mesh either or top bottom and that will be placed yeah white trucks craziness getting them in here that was tight here we go let's go [Music] [Music] so [Music] all right got our first layer rebar up to two feet let's get it to it [Music] all right getting her full slowly taking our time don't want no blowouts god forbid all right got the second rebar in tapping it down all right first hit we're up the height first hit on it with the float just screened it as much as i could and edged it i'm gonna let it set a little bit and pull these boards right here check the tower for plumb and uh put a finish on it all right just hit it off a couple times got everything where it needs to be just edged it with my chamfer and i'm just going to clean up this and it's going to give it the old slick finish like this nothing too fancy it's just a tower pad just gonna do that and finish her out all right all right 48 foot tower gonna be up a couple weeks there's the pad come out super sweet simple basic twenty thousand pound counterweight right there that should do it for sure all right my people catch you on the next one jj says later

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Keywords: excavator, excavating, excavation, concrete, construction, heavy equipment, andrew camarata, french drain, water problems, kenworth, dump trucks, komatsu, kubota, john deere, sidewalk, clearing land, diy, site work, septic systems, dozer, backhoe, skidsteer, chainsaw, crusher run, road fabric, compactor, peterbuilt, trailer, tri axle, dirt perfect, logger wade, lets dig18, amateur radio, ham radio, living the dream, amateur radio (hobby), ham radio tower, ham radio antenna, farm life

Id: nSzNY3cCQF8

Length: 11min 45sec (705 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 14 2020