{"id":326,"date":"2015-08-25T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2015-08-25T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:59:09","slug":"towers-and-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/towers-and-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Towers and pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more common questions is what does a tower cost me to put up? As many of you know this can vary quite a bit. \u00a0We are going to approach this from a single vendor perspective. \u00a0What this means is I am going to take what it would cost to buy a commercially available tower from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastowers.com\">Texas Towers<\/a> and put it in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimers<br \/>\n1.I am not endorsing Texas Towers nor am I affiliated with them. They are one of the few tower manufacturers who publish prices.<br \/>\n2.Consumable costs will vary depending on where you are, time of year, state regulations, and maybe even the cycle of the moon.<br \/>\n3.This is geared toward small deployments.<br \/>\n4.Pricing is based upon the information I had available at time of this writing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texas towers makes a self supporting 100 foot tower (Model HD8-100). \u00a0This tower is rated to support 7.4 square feet of load in 110MPH winds. Cost $4,409.<\/li>\n<li>The base which goes in the ground costs $225<\/li>\n<li>Freight costs vary<\/li>\n<li>Concrete. The base for this tower requires 6 cubic yards of concrete. Pricing near me is $95 per yard plus a $30 delivery fee with a 3 yard minimum.<\/li>\n<li>If you are doing the 100 foot tower a small 80-100 foot crane can put this up. \u00a0The tower weighs around 500 pounds so a small crane is sufficient. \u00a0In my area a crane this size would be around $400 for a half day. \u00a0Since it&#8217;s not a huge crane it doesn&#8217;t require special permits in indiana<\/li>\n<li>Engineering Fees for the base run around $1000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So total cost for the tower: $5734 plus freight.<\/p>\n<p>There are some other factors to consider. Permitting, labor to assemble tower, standoffs, etc. But this gives you a good ballpark estimate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more common questions is what does a tower cost me to put up? As many of you know this can vary quite a bit. \u00a0We are going to approach this from a single vendor perspective. \u00a0What this means is I am going to take what it would cost to buy a commercially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[186,53],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VLMf-5g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2131,"url":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/tower-suppliers\/","url_meta":{"origin":326,"position":0},"title":"Tower Suppliers","author":"j2sw","date":"March 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the more common questions we get asked about is towers, tower mounts, and where to get them. 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