Rebar cage for guy station is lowered onto concrete blocks that elevate up off the bottom.

It looks like coax in this picture, but it is Phillystran, a non-conductive arimid fiber guy wire. Good for about 4,000 lbs pull.

After assembling 1 of the active elements on the grass by the tower in about 3 hours, assembly was moved into Steve & Linda's shop where an assembly line could be set up, as there are 6 of these to make. Time was reduced to about 1 hour per unit.

Many parts to each unit..

Boom joiner on the SteppIR Dream Beam DB18E). Colored dots on the pieces helps the assembler to find and line up the proper pieces.

A view of the trench heading down to the ham shack. That white bottle in the picture is copper anti-seize/anti-corrosion goop that is used liberally on ALL copper-to-copper connections.