[Shop-talk] concrete mixer issue

[Mike Rambour]

  I did that for the base, I used cart-crete for the base but not for 
the rest of the work as it took less concrete than they are will to put 
on cart-crete.

     mike

On 07/31/2012 01:58 PM, Darrell Walker wrote:
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> On Jul 31, 2012, at 01:33 PM, Gerald Brazil <gerrybraz at cablespeed.com> 
> wrote:
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>> Snowplow drivers spray their blades with some "brew" of diesel fuel 
>> and old
>> motor oil....not sure what that would do to the concrete.
>
> Many years ago my dad managed a rental yard, and one thing they had 
> were trailers that you could get filled with freshly mixed concrete. 
>  They would spray them with oil, perhaps just for rust prevention, but 
> perhaps also to help the concrete slide out.  The trailers had a jack 
> that would lift the bed to dump into a wheelbarrow.  Very handy for 
> jobs that needed less than a full cement mixer.
>
> -Darrell