Your email wasn't "off list"...

Barry...

I'm here...in good shape and I generally post when I have something of value to say. to say.

I've never felt it necessary  to respond to just about every post that somebody else makes, regardless of the topic.

Suke's tower:

The concrete at the base and it's footings, in engineering speak, is called a "grade beam". It helps his tower survive the vibrations of the earthquake prone area of Fukishima, by linking the base of each leg to each other, via concrete, below the surface of the ground. That's usually done at the very bottom of the excavation. The size of the excavation, footings, and grade beams are determined by what the soils report says. Mushy soil?...keep digging baby! Hard pack clay?...much preferred.

BTW, it was 82F here today.

Milt.

N6MG

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