Labour Saving and General Guntering

Reggie.

td5man wrote: »

Hate fibre in concrete hard to get a nice finish on it especially if you're power floating it.
4 inches of concrete is enough for most shed floors if you have a good base, 5-6 if using a forklift or loader on it regularly.

But most farm sheds and yards would be looking for a rough finish would they not

Muckit

"foxy wrote:

The cube test is the real indicator of the final strength of a mix. This gives the final Newton strength.

Great craic in college making up the cubes and crushing them. See who could make the strongest. Some bang when they'd go. Thank God for the safety cage around them.

Anyone can and should take sample cubes and send them off to be tested. especially if getting a few loads. A lot of money to be leaving to chance. It's like spreading fertiliser without soil testing only worse because you can't correct it the following year! !

td5man

Reggie. wrote: »

But most farm sheds and yards would be looking for a rough finish would they not

There's rough and there's rough iykwim.

td5man

Muckit wrote: »

Great craic in college making up the cubes and crushing them. See who could make the strongest. Some bang when they'd go. Thank God for the safety cage around them.

Anyone can and should take sample cubes and send them off to be tested. especially if getting a few loads. A lot of money to be leaving to chance. It's like spreading fertiliser without soil testing only worse because you can't correct it the following year! !

Kilsaran have a lad going round taking cubes on site must be check the customer hasn't added too much water.

Reggie.

td5man wrote: »

There's rough and there's rough iykwim.

I got a near dead smooth unintentional finish on one pad but there was alot of water added tho which wasn't ideal.

Count Mondego

Muckit wrote: »

Anyone can and should take sample cubes and send them off to be tested. especially if getting a few loads. A lot of money to be leaving to chance. It's like spreading fertiliser without soil testing only worse because you can't correct it the following year! !

Is it not too late at that stage? I'd imagine it takes a few days for the results to come back and you're floor is well set by then. Would you get compensation or are they required to replace it?

foxy farmer

I got one load of readymix here back in 97 for the wall of a tank. It was like watching marbles coming out of the drum. Almost no sand in the mix. Only for pokering the living daylights out of it I'd say it would be porous. Driver said it was the first load out that morning after bank holiday.
Same happened to another lad in the parish back in 08. Dept insisted that the wall be demolished. It was so bad that you could see through it in places. Some dose with all the Grant spec reinforcing.

rangler1

Reggie. wrote: »

I got a near dead smooth unintentional finish on one pad but there was alot of water added tho which wasn't ideal.

Yes but you'll get a nice finish with a power screed without overdoing the water that you wont's get with a plank

Reggie.

rangler1 wrote: »

Yes but you'll get a nice finish with a power screed without overdoing the water that you wont's get with a plank

Oh I fully understand that. Just was saying in relation to fibre being in the concrete

have2flushtwice

We put down a floor in a shed in 2004, it was 25 x 45 ft., and 4 inches in most of it. No steel mesh. The midde of a hayshed.
We mixed it with gravel at 6 to 1, in a mixer, wheeled it in and leveled with a 4x2 over the shapes we had made, then moved to the next bit and so on. One 4x2 got wedged in and is still there
wde did it this way because money was tight and couldn't afford the load at once.
Turned out it was the same price as mixing by hand. . ..
Ten years on, and countless jcbs sitting on their jacks and buckets later, there's not a crack to be seen.
And it was laid in November and December.

Nekarsulm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwwpeZK2YVc

One for Reggie, I think!

Nekarsulm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwwpeZK2YVc

One for Reggie, I think!

Sorry about double post, guys.......

renandstimpy

Decided this year is the last time im baling out all the 90 gallon troughs (plastic ones ) around the farm.. so fitted this jfc 1 inch drain off not really cheap at €7 each x 2 for each trough so €14 a trough but should last for years .A 34mm hole is perfect for them ... i used a bit that bores out for carcass hinges in kitchen doors.





recycled springs from neighbours old trampoline .. can now set arms to size for machines without pulling in and out also stops arms from hitting tyres which they were always doing when in up position with nothing on .

Reggie.

renandstimpy wrote: »

Decided this year is the last time im baling out all the 90 gallon troughs (plastic ones ) around the farm.. so fitted this jfc 1 inch drain off not really cheap at €7 each x 2 for each trough so €14 a trough but should last for years .A 34mm hole is perfect for them ... i used a bit that bores out for carcass hinges in kitchen doors.





recycled springs from neighbours old trampoline .. can now set arms to size for machines without pulling in and out also stops arms from hitting tyres which they were always doing when in up position with nothing on .

Great stuff. Well done lad

onyerbikepat

I didn't realise there was such a thing as a drain-off. I was cleaning a trough during the week and thinking what a pain it was. Cheers.

foxy farmer

Anyone use Hyundai welding rods? Local coop started stocking them as they're cheaper than Oerlikon. Have been using them with a while but notice that when using a new rod the arc keeps breaking till nearly half the rod is burned. Will burn grand and continuously then to the finish. Drove me demented last night.Thought it might be dampness but have an older open box of Oerlikon 4mm that burn fine start to finish.

Reggie.

foxy farmer wrote: »

Anyone use Hyundai welding rods? Local coop started stocking them as they're cheaper than Oerlikon. Have been using them with a while but notice that when using a new rod the arc keeps breaking till nearly half the rod is burned. Will burn grand and continuously then to the finish. Drove me demented last night.Thought it might be dampness but have an older open box of Oerlikon 4mm that burn fine start to finish.

I buy from wholesale welding supplies online. Buy their own brand stuff. It's good products and alot cheaper than big company named products

blue5000

foxy farmer wrote: »

Anyone use Hyundai welding rods? Local coop started stocking them as they're cheaper than Oerlikon. Have been using them with a while but notice that when using a new rod the arc keeps breaking till nearly half the rod is burned. Will burn grand and continuously then to the finish. Drove me demented last night.Thought it might be dampness but have an older open box of Oerlikon 4mm that burn fine start to finish.

Haven't used them but heard they're very spluttery.

raypallas

foxy farmer wrote:

Anyone use Hyundai welding rods? Local coop started stocking them as they're cheaper than Oerlikon. Have been using them with a while but notice that when using a new rod the arc keeps breaking till nearly half the rod is burned. Will burn grand and continuously then to the finish. Drove me demented last night.Thought it might be dampness but have an older open box of Oerlikon 4mm that burn fine start to finish.

Have used them before, didn't take much notice of them. Did find them fairly cheap so i suppose you get what you pay for!

Figerty

raypallas wrote: »

Have used them before, didn't take much notice of them. Did find them fairly cheap so i suppose you get what you pay for!

Any chance they are damp. By the time you have gotten to half way they are dried out.

foxy farmer

Figerty wrote: »

Any chance they are damp. By the time you have gotten to half way they are dried out.

Possibly. The Oerlikons are open with nearly 12 months and should be as damp but they worked fine last night. I'll need a new box of rods tomorrow so I'll see if the new ones are any better.

Figerty

I leave them beside the central heating boiler. They can get to dry over time.

raypallas

Figerty wrote:

I leave them beside the central heating boiler. They can get to dry over time.

Use the hot press at home myself

_Brian

Figerty wrote: »

Any chance they are damp. By the time you have gotten to half way they are dried out.

Sounds like this is what's going on..

foxy farmer wrote: »

Possibly. The Oerlikons are open with nearly 12 months and should be as damp but they worked fine last night. I'll need a new box of rods tomorrow so I'll see if the new ones are any better.

Nothing as bad as welding with damp rods, you'll never get decent welds as the steam will keep disrupting the weld pool..

Reggie.

Not farming related but had to put it up.

Young lass is staying in the parents for a few days but an old cot they had was a bit damaged at It's end. So this was my father's solution

Kovu

Reggie. wrote: »

Not farming related but had to put it up.

Young lass is staying in the parents for a few days but an old cot they had was a bit damaged at It's end. So this was my father's solution

If it looks stupid but it works......it's not stupid

Edit-Goddammit Reggie I wasted my 9000th post on you. I'll have to go delete one now.

foxy farmer

Reggie. wrote: »

Not farming related but had to put it up.

Young lass is staying in the parents for a few days but an old cot they had was a bit damaged at It's end. So this was my father's solution

Thats a warning for projectile vomit, diarrhoea, wind, wailing and thrown toys!

blue5000

Reggie. wrote: »

Not farming related but had to put it up.

Young lass is staying in the parents for a few days but an old cot they had was a bit damaged at It's end. So this was my father's solution

Twasn't from the side of the road you picked up your guntering skills so?

Odelay

I thought he was going to use a pallet and baler twine!

cj maxx

Odelay wrote: »

I thought he was going to use a pallet and baler twine!

Thought that myself. )