ah goverment projects
ShortStik 09-15-2009
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goverment funded sites.  what better place to be, lol.  get to site, super giving me a strange looks. 

"I ordered a line pump."  he says.

"This is a line."  I reply.

25meters of topping sloped section(fill the rest next pour)  counting 12 phillippino flat workers & labours.  took it easy on them with the volume.  the hose guy consistent, 4 - 6 inchs high, 4 labours took on pulling hose and man phlips must love pulling long black snakes back home (by hand; bent a few rebar for em).  next panal would be to the right and they're pullin er to the left, only need to pull the last hose n' half and they'd be pullin 3,  hehehe.  140ft, 7 hose.  i love concrete thats delivered with delay in it already and theres a washout box right there.  good times.  get to the end, the super let me know that he needs half a dozen wheel barrels on the third floor.  good thing i brought the line pump :)

the 4 phillippinos i worked with might have been a little green to concrete in north america, after cutting the first hose i didn't have to remind them no metal on the end and pins in clamps.  without being asked helped with dunnage, clamps, hoses, happy.  couldn't ask for anything more.  even got to see a wheel barrel go over  hehehe


johnjohnjohn 09-15-2009
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and some people say government spending is bad ;~)

chongliyan 09-16-2009
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nice pics, how,s the filipinos there hope they work great.

ShortStik 09-16-2009
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johnjohnjohn, yah, but i can pretend that my tax dollors funded this project and that im being payed from my tax dollors to pay more taxes that will fund new projects ... if the goverment wasn't spending, the pump would be sitting more lately.

Chongliyan,  the phlips ive pumped concrete with are great  good people  funny as hell (probly the language barrie) and know when its coffee time lol.


chongliyan 09-16-2009
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well said,,,lol