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Joe soap shuttering

thestar · 2014-10-19 13:28:02

This is not really relative to after hours but I din't really know where else to put it. Basically I have been offered a job shuttering. I have very limited experience working with concrete and carpentry. A friend of mine told me that anybody could do it. Is it easy to learn?

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#32 19-10-2014 6:10pm
Tail Docker

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Hitchens wrote: »

you should try shuttering in a mine shaft

We do a good few big concrete bunds for industrial diesel tanks - watching a new lad try and shutter one of them can be comedy gold alone and that's about as simple as it gets. The run for more screw/props/timbers/underpants when they realise how much pressure a cubic meter of concrete exerts on formwork can be good for a giggle too.

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#33 19-10-2014 6:11pm
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In the late 60s when I was 18 I did some shuttering dismantling. The proper workers put up the shuttering, the concrete was poured, and on the Monday and Tuesday a few of us tore down the shuttering and stacked it for the real workers to repeat.
You might need to know what you are doing, and someone needs to be able to read plans/blueprints.

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