Who knew there was a Baha'i prayer for cement?! Cement Thou, O God, the hearts together!
We had an early and exciting morning of pouring concrete. We had to hire a pumper truck because there was no room for a regular cement truck to get onto the lot without breaking trees or having to move a very large pile of gravel. It was pretty cool! The cement truck dumps the cement into a hopper on the pumper truck.
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| dumping cement into the hopper |
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| There was another whole joint of this arm that is out of the picture... |
A very long, articulated arm holding a hose that sucked cement up from the regular cement truck, and then out through a house about 6" in diameter. It was pretty awesome. The pumper truck operator control the movement of the arm and the flow of the concrete by using a remote control that he strapped onto his chest. IT.WAS.SO.COOL!
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| planning the pour |
Keith controled the hose, filling the forms. Nathan leveled the concreted. I was back up. Thankfully, everything went well! I was able to cut a board on the fly and notice when a shovel was needed. Oh, and of course, I called the "Press" (a.k.a. our 3 - 9 yr old friends who think big trucks are cool!) and I was the photograph, with Terese being the artistic director!
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| waiting for another cement truck to arrive |
We have the second half of the pour early next week! Nathan has been anxious to "get out of the ground"...pretty soon!!
A video for your viewing pleasure...
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