Fwd: Concrete

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How many manly Canadian friends you got, Tim?

Have a party with everyone bringing their wheel barrows.  Make runways of
lumber for the wheelbarrows to drive on if your earth is soft. And, well,
just have at it. The truck will fill the wheel barrows and you will have a
convoy of Canadians conveying concrete (nice ring to that) running up to the
tower base and back again for more fun! 

I recommend you have your garden hose all hooked up and ready to wash out
your friends wheelbarrows ASAP once the base is filled.

Just a thought....now that the weather is getting warmer (even up there, I am
told) it makes a nice opportunity for a Molson, etc. with your buddies.

Jim  zx            k1zx at contesting.com
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Forwarded message:
From:	TELLAM at mccarthy.ca (Tim S. Ellam)
Sender:	owner-towertech at akorn.net
To:	towertalk at contesting.com
Date: 96-06-05 17:57:36 EDT

OK
Here is my dillema-I need to pour cement for my 54' Delhi Self Supporting
Tower-the base is 
3'X3'X4'-Due to the shape of my yard there is no way a cement truck can get
anywhere near
the hole! I checked the price of a Schnorkel(sp?) and almost had a heart
attack!

A couple of my friends with Italian heritage(and thus by some divine
intervention claim to
have some expertise in this area even though one has never laid hands on a
shovel in his
life)  have told me to rent a portable mixer, buy bulk cement, gravel and
sand and mix it in
stages . This seems like a lot of work to me. The other idea is to have the
cemnt truck back in
as far as possible and then do a relay of wheelbarrows to fill the hole(even
more work!) I
know you can rent portable hoppers that hold enough concrete, but I could not
even get the
hopper close to the hole!

Any thoughts?

Tim VE6SH