Concrete project PICs
- Thread starter dfeck
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Now my tractor has a home of it's own. All in all the project went very smooth. One thing I forgot to do before I started pouring was to place plastic against the vinyl siding. Needless to say, concrete splashed up onto the siding and it took me a long time to remove it a few days later. Not to mention alot of elbow grease.
Thanks,
Doug
Thanks,
Doug
RobertN
Super Member
Next time wet down the siding. If it is damp when you pour, the mud will not stick as bad, and is easily cleaned up with a semi soft brush.
Don't know how much the buggy ran to rent. We tend to get a pump in for tight access stuff like that, if it is over three yards. Otherwise, out come the wheel barrows.
Don't know how much the buggy ran to rent. We tend to get a pump in for tight access stuff like that, if it is over three yards. Otherwise, out come the wheel barrows.
em14
Platinum Member
Doug,
It looks nice ... you did a good job!
Leo
It looks nice ... you did a good job!
Leo
Junkman
Super Member
Looks great...... have you considered a career change!!!!!!..... What do they charge to rent equipment like that? delivered???
wroughtn_harv
Super Member
Ahhhhhhh yes, the concrete buggy. I know her well. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I put in over sixty yards with one of those. The closest we could get a concrete truck was four hundred feet from the pour. Two hundred and fifty feet of that was exposed aggregate drive. About half the rest was comparable to an off road race course.
The way you make the puppy move is you squeeze that handle on the bar that looks like it might be a brake. That's sort of a safety device. When you catch a bump and the thing hangs a hard ninety and throws you off. It stops. Your hand is no longer squeezing the go bar. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
The first time we did forty three yards. It like to have killed me. But after watching one of the guys almost lose a load on that beautiful driveway I grinned and did it, with gritted teeth I did it.
In a perverted masochistic way it was fun. The run back empty was not too much trouble. But the ride down with all that weight on the front drive wheels, that was exhausting.
Did I mention it was the summer time and that I kept fighting cramps in the right arm.
Another thing I recall with some kind of fondness, sorta like the fondness of recalling war experiences. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif You turn the handlebars right to go left. But if you want to go right then you have to remember to turn left. That's because the handlebars is attached via gear drive dead on to the pair of wheels under you. If the wheels were in front it'd be like guiding a bicycle, left to go left, right to right. But since they're at the back you turn left and hold on because you're hanging a rightie.
Speed was fun too with that baby. I had the pucker string tighter than Jim's hat band every time I had a load. If you weren't holding on for dear life and you hit any kind of bump, rice from a wedding six years ago kind of bump even, the steering wheels might hiccup a bit. Their camber, castor, angle of dangle, too much too little tire pressure, all that came together just wrong, perfectly wrong. Throw you off the buggy on your butt perfectly wrong.
Please bear in mind that I've tried to present my case in a manner to reflect positively on the buggy.
I put in over sixty yards with one of those. The closest we could get a concrete truck was four hundred feet from the pour. Two hundred and fifty feet of that was exposed aggregate drive. About half the rest was comparable to an off road race course.
The way you make the puppy move is you squeeze that handle on the bar that looks like it might be a brake. That's sort of a safety device. When you catch a bump and the thing hangs a hard ninety and throws you off. It stops. Your hand is no longer squeezing the go bar. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
The first time we did forty three yards. It like to have killed me. But after watching one of the guys almost lose a load on that beautiful driveway I grinned and did it, with gritted teeth I did it.
In a perverted masochistic way it was fun. The run back empty was not too much trouble. But the ride down with all that weight on the front drive wheels, that was exhausting.
Did I mention it was the summer time and that I kept fighting cramps in the right arm.
Another thing I recall with some kind of fondness, sorta like the fondness of recalling war experiences. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif You turn the handlebars right to go left. But if you want to go right then you have to remember to turn left. That's because the handlebars is attached via gear drive dead on to the pair of wheels under you. If the wheels were in front it'd be like guiding a bicycle, left to go left, right to right. But since they're at the back you turn left and hold on because you're hanging a rightie.
Speed was fun too with that baby. I had the pucker string tighter than Jim's hat band every time I had a load. If you weren't holding on for dear life and you hit any kind of bump, rice from a wedding six years ago kind of bump even, the steering wheels might hiccup a bit. Their camber, castor, angle of dangle, too much too little tire pressure, all that came together just wrong, perfectly wrong. Throw you off the buggy on your butt perfectly wrong.
Please bear in mind that I've tried to present my case in a manner to reflect positively on the buggy.