Weather: occasional rain yesterday and heavy at times today that painted the surrounding mountains white
The full crew is here: Steve, Tony, Chris, William, Reva, Bob, Dan, Jude (Bob's dog), but....
Bob brought the hydraulic jackhammer that he picked up yesterday and we hooked it up, but it wouldn't run (always caused the hydraulic compressor to die). We fussed with it for 2 hours and gave up. This was the only available jackhammer from the place we rented from, Williams Form in Golden. Thus, we had to stop work since everything now depends on having anchors to get the towers vertical. There are a lot of options we are working on, but all have issues and few could be resolved over the weekend.
We called on Isabel to locate the large (36" and 46") screw anchors, the "drill" to install it, and she also went on a Boulder odyssey to locate a socket to drive these. We then called on my wife, Mary Cal, to drive all this stuff out here. Hopefully, we'll be able to get these into the ground to erect at least the 35' towers tomorrow, while Dan is still here. Thanks, both of you, for graciously accommodating an abrupt change of plans!!
Anyone else is free to summarize any or all of the options we have considered!
