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wroughtn_harv
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Mike I'm sorry my reply was so tacky. But day and day out I see fences waving at me like I'm rich family. And the only reason they do so is because someone for reasons of their own didn't put them in right.
You won't be sorry for doing it right.
If you want you can come and help me out on a job. Four thousand feet of pipe barrier fence. Ten foot centers, three inch round tubing (two and a half inch pipe) and twenty inches high. I'm looking right now at putting a thousand to twelve hundred eighty pound sacks of TXI Maximizer through the mixer on this job. I imagine my knees and back are gonna be a tad sore after this one.
You won't be sorry for doing it right.
If you want you can come and help me out on a job. Four thousand feet of pipe barrier fence. Ten foot centers, three inch round tubing (two and a half inch pipe) and twenty inches high. I'm looking right now at putting a thousand to twelve hundred eighty pound sacks of TXI Maximizer through the mixer on this job. I imagine my knees and back are gonna be a tad sore after this one.
MikePA
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<font color=blue>Mike I'm sorry my reply was so tacky.</font color=blue>
No problem, w-h, not tacky at all. This fence is enough work that I sure don't want to be doing it again any time soon. Ten years ago, we hired someone to put a fence in at the same time we were building our barn. It was a summer like we're having now, hot, humid and dry. He first tried pounding the posts (6" half round PT) in. That worked for 1 post. Then he drilled them. I don't know what he used (I was at work when he was putting them in), but some of the holes are not even 1 foot deep. They looked good until the first winter. So, I know what a wavy fence looks like....junk! Once we get our new pasture fenced in, I'll be replacing about 200' of these shallow planted posts.
<font color=blue>If you want you can come and help me out on a job.</font color=blue>
Pay my, and my tractor's, travel expenses and I'm there for minimum wage! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
What's TXI Maximizer?
BTW, I checked around for concrete. Lowe's sells 80 lb bags of Quickrete for the same price 84 Lumber sells 60 lb bags of their generic brand. The local TruValue hardware store is misnamed. They're 50% higher than 84 Lumber.
No problem, w-h, not tacky at all. This fence is enough work that I sure don't want to be doing it again any time soon. Ten years ago, we hired someone to put a fence in at the same time we were building our barn. It was a summer like we're having now, hot, humid and dry. He first tried pounding the posts (6" half round PT) in. That worked for 1 post. Then he drilled them. I don't know what he used (I was at work when he was putting them in), but some of the holes are not even 1 foot deep. They looked good until the first winter. So, I know what a wavy fence looks like....junk! Once we get our new pasture fenced in, I'll be replacing about 200' of these shallow planted posts.
<font color=blue>If you want you can come and help me out on a job.</font color=blue>
Pay my, and my tractor's, travel expenses and I'm there for minimum wage! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
What's TXI Maximizer?
BTW, I checked around for concrete. Lowe's sells 80 lb bags of Quickrete for the same price 84 Lumber sells 60 lb bags of their generic brand. The local TruValue hardware store is misnamed. They're 50% higher than 84 Lumber.
wroughtn_harv
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Here you go Mike. <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.txi.com/product_news/maximizer/faq.htm>Maximizer</A>
What I like about it is a couple of things. First and foremost is it's easier to work with, less weight. And it's fifty five hundred psi versus sacrete's three thousand.
I use three cubic feet of concrete per hole. Sacrete is usually around three seventy five per cubic feet (one and a half eighty pound sacks to make a cubic foot). Concrete truck is usually two seventy five a cubic foot but if there's waiting time that dollar fifty a minute adds up real quick. So Maximizer at four dollars a cubic foot is the real deal in my book. It goes farther, is easier to work with, and stronger. All that could be better would be if it came with an automatic applicator.
The way we're going to set up is the nine cubic foot mixer will be on a stand. The trailer will pull in next to it with four to five pallets of maximizer. We will also have three fifty five gallon open end barrels there full of water.
Ten gallons of water and as many bags of maximizer the machine will hold, probably ten. Then that load goes into the concrete bucket on the JCB. The JCB hauls that load to where I'm setting posts and fills three contractor wheelbarrows to heaping. Then he's back to get another load. I'll pull out the concrete from the wheelbarrows as I need them. I'll be sighting the posts for line and height and filling in the concrete by myself. The last time we did it this way I almost killed the helper with him trying to keep up.
What I like about it is a couple of things. First and foremost is it's easier to work with, less weight. And it's fifty five hundred psi versus sacrete's three thousand.
I use three cubic feet of concrete per hole. Sacrete is usually around three seventy five per cubic feet (one and a half eighty pound sacks to make a cubic foot). Concrete truck is usually two seventy five a cubic foot but if there's waiting time that dollar fifty a minute adds up real quick. So Maximizer at four dollars a cubic foot is the real deal in my book. It goes farther, is easier to work with, and stronger. All that could be better would be if it came with an automatic applicator.
The way we're going to set up is the nine cubic foot mixer will be on a stand. The trailer will pull in next to it with four to five pallets of maximizer. We will also have three fifty five gallon open end barrels there full of water.
Ten gallons of water and as many bags of maximizer the machine will hold, probably ten. Then that load goes into the concrete bucket on the JCB. The JCB hauls that load to where I'm setting posts and fills three contractor wheelbarrows to heaping. Then he's back to get another load. I'll pull out the concrete from the wheelbarrows as I need them. I'll be sighting the posts for line and height and filling in the concrete by myself. The last time we did it this way I almost killed the helper with him trying to keep up.