[TowerTalk] Concrete prices

[Mark Robinson]

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)