Preparing Sonotube before concrete pour. What I would like to do is have all the Sonotubes and anchors preplaced and secured before the pour. Big barn rescue - Michigan resident discovers the best plastic footing forms in home improvement magazine This Old House.

Typically, I like to set the anchors after placing the crete, but I can see the delema here especially if you are working alone in such low headroom. That means you need to have the forms and anchors pretty well placed before you start. I would probably not bother with sonotubes for such a short space at all. I don't visualize what you gain with them there. I would probably drive a length of rebar for a grade stake exactly in the location where I want the anchor to seat, plumbed under the beam above and driven to the right depth. Then you can pour to top of it and still find it with your screed float, and seat the anchor right on it. The anchor is not in the way then.

If for some reason you need to have the sonotubes, use two lengths of twoby to suspend them above the footer trench in the right place. A couple of Piffinscrews will hold the sonotube to the two.

Then buy up a bunch ( sixty did you say?) of lead fishing weights to hang by string from the beams. That way you can locate the right spot for the anchor quickly but be able to poke the mini-plumb -bob out of your way for placing the crete. I don't visualize what you gain with them there I'm thinking OP wants to make a concrete pier up, from the footer (which may or may not be meant to be cast monolithically), to the bottom of the various putative framing members. If I'm on the same page you are, you are seeing simpson post anchor in footer, for a new timber vertical to the framing above. Now we both could be wrong on this, OP may merely want to cut down on fussing-in-c/s time, and wants to rig some, oh, 16' tall 24' diameter 'forms' up ahead of time.

In which case, the magic answer is: hot melt glue. Set anchor next to some comvenient bit of scarp material, center came of ver sonotube section, hot melt tube to scrap material. Post in place with the anchor attached and leave it dangling Yep. Install Mfl-pro Suite Without Cd Rom. What about ciphering up a common dimension for them all. Then pour them in forms with 5/8' allthread through the middles. Cast them all, and let them cure up.

Then rig up box forms for the footers, and then, roll the piers to the footers. Just tip them up on the box forms, and set the footer 'crete. Anchor just gets bolted to the allthread out the top. Hmm, couple of nuts and a fender washer would make a stout connection to the footer, cast in place, now that I ponder it a tad. 1000eyes, It has been mentioned by others that what have shown in your pictures will probably not withstand the pressures of the pour.