Thanks to a "loaner" Bobcat....I was able to make quick work of the site prep. I used the same Bobcat when building my house. Awesome machine.

The base is dug...with the help of a backhoe!

The base of the tower is in!

Up, Up and Away.....

Easy does it!

Bob K4HA and I help "set" the tower on the base. The crane operator did an super job and we just had to "pursuade" it a little to nest in properly.

K4HA and Bill K4CIA at work up top.

The Quad and friends

Another shot of the finished product.

The antennas are up! Thanks to K4HA, K4CIA, and Bert N4CW they are up and up right! A FB job.

Since I live on top of a rock!....I couldn't go as deep with the hole as I'd have liked. So, it's a little wider. The hole is approximately 5 feet deep and 8 feet wide. I drilled in to the granite at the bottom of the hole and achored 3 large bolts in to the rock. The bolts stick up about 1 foot in to the poured concrete.

Lots of diggin, form'n, rebarr'n, and pour'n (about 9 yards of 3500psi concrete to be precise) and the base if finally in the ground. It took a 12' 2x4 to finish the concrete work as the base is "that large".

The very heavy tower(Trylon Titan T-500) is raised in to position by a boom truck(mini-crane). The tower was assembled on the ground then lifted and placed perfectly in about 30 minutes of time. Sure beat the alternatives!

Really was a slick operation.

On top of the 72 foot tower is a 2 el. cubical quad which covers 10,12,15,17, and 20 meters. Above it at 75' (nested inside the quad) is a 40m rotatable dipole. On the very tip top at 85' is a 4 el. 2m beam for SSB/CW(horizontal).