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Old 04-19-2011, 02:05 PM
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Screw piles is what I wanted to use but there is no one that does it there and there is to much rock. Concrete would be great but access is not good enough to bring a concrete truck in
If there is too much rock for screwpiles [I'm thinking river bed here], you'll have a bugger of a time digging holes for your piles, as well. In that situation, I'm thinking you could get by with a surface footing. Only reason to use piles would be to get through frost penetration and counter heave. Don't think you're going to have enough of a problem there to worry about.

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