[Shop-talk] concrete mixer issue

[Peter Murray]

A friend of mine here in the DC area built an oven based loosely on
the plans at Forno Bravo.
http://www.fornobravo.com/pompeii_oven/pompeii_oven.html

The pizza, calzones and bread that come out of oven are absolutely
excellent. The type of flour used is important - and once you have one
of these, you will definitely start buying it in larger quantities.

ObShop: We used a red Harbor Freight "My first mixer" for the concrete
- I can not imagine trying to hand-mix those 20 bags of quick-crete! I
do find it amusing that Home Depot staff has no trouble helping you
overload their hourly rental trucks.

-Peter

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Mike Rambour <lists at dinospider.com> wrote:
>  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:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 01:33 PM, Gerald Brazil <gerrybraz at cablespeed.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>
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