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Re: [TowerTalk] Concrete prices

To: "Roger \(K8RI\) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Concrete prices
From: "Mark Robinson" <markrob@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 14:57:18 -0500
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When I was in the UK...I could buy ballast which was the sand and gravel already premixed. I would then buy 90 pound bags of cement.

Having the sand and gravel premixed saved a lot of effort

Mark N1UK

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When I was younger and on the farm, it seemed like nearly every farm had a mixer, and piles of gravel and sand. We'd purchase the cement by 80 or 90 pound bags. It was so many shovel of sand so many gravel and so many of cement. add water to the desired consistency. IIRC we'd have tho shoveling in, one on the wheelbarrow for sand and gravel and one or two hauling it to where ever. Then there were those leveling and troweling. For a tower base, the mixer could set at one edge of the hole so you'd shovel in, mix, and dump! It went fairly fast, but the set up and clean up took almost as long as the work.

I no longer remember how many shovels full of each and with only one working hand I don't think of that as a viable approach anyway.<:-))

73

Roger (K8RI)

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