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I will try, but we have never had concrete delivered. There are 2 options -- a long 3 mile long dirt road that is more of a 2 track or a close road over a bridge with a 5 ton limit bridge.

I have heard of smaller concrete trucks but don't know what they weigh.

We are on post and pier, no poured concrete was used. Posts are sitting on preformed concrete pads.

No, haven't really pursued it. I am taking the day off tomorrow to try and buy the pipe I need at a scrap yard. They have pipe that is the right length and OD but I am unsure if it has the wall thickness I am looking for.

KVR -- for the 2ft wide and 5ft deep hole that needs to be filled with concrete around the pole... would you trust putting dry concrete mix in and spraying a hose down the hole or would you want to mix it all by hand above ground? I have a high water table and I think the water is going to saturate whatever concrete I put down the hole. I might have 2 feet without water but I think everything else is going to be pretty wet.

Hard to say on exact lbs -- but the panels themselves will be ~600 lbs and the metal pipe and framing I guess would be between 200 and 300 lbs -- so 900 lbs total.

Check out what I grabbed from the scrap yard yesterday...

Travel on the way home.

And here is what I got. ~20" pipe x 5 feet to use as a base for the pole -- think sonotube on steroids. Also the 16' x 3" and 13' x 6" pole .

On a side note, I found this self supporting antenna assembly at the scrap yard. This is giving me ideas about a wind turbine...