setting a tower

[wild_card]

just looking for nice clean photo's of your tower base's hinge plates and hole's dug . as soon as the weather clears i'd like to pour my base and im trying to gain every possible angle before doing so . and also a good place to get a new section for my tower . its triangular and gets smaller as it goes up its approx 35 ft and if its not to much trouble id like to add at least 5 ft to it . once again thanks again to all the members on this site for input and suggestions !

[linx]

Go to the journal section and click on "Linx's Tower Pics" and I have pics of mine, however, it's not your typical hinge plate, but it did/does work nice. I lower the tower probably once a year and it helps out. I have that base section is 3 ft of concrete (about 400 lbs of concrete).

No matter what type of hinge you do, you still need to guy it off, or attach it to another structure. The only true self supporting hinged towers I've seen have usually 12Ftx12Ftx12Ft of concrete in the ground. For instance 12Ft wide, by 12Ft long, by 12Ft deep.

[wild_card]

very nicely done ! Not bad for a Duck , i like your idea it seems alot cheaper then what i was thinking of my tower is an older crapper design but the way you did the pully and stuff looks like it works great . thanks for the link.