Cement washed from truck

[Gary_T]

@JohnGalt

Cleaning out the mixers is one of the grunt jobs you’d give to the new kid.

One summer a friend of mine a year older than I was (20 at the time) got a “cushy” job with the state highway crew, was inside the drum cleaning it out, when someone turned it on (no lock-out/tag-out obviously). I can’t imagine a more horrific way to die.

Die? Sounds like a variation on the old Fun House revolving barrels.

[gotpasswords]

@Gary T

Die? Sounds like a variation on the old Fun House revolving barrels.

The fun house barrels didn’t have big metal fins to chop and mix their contents.

On occasion, they’ll quite easily decapitate a person. (Nothng gruesome there, it’s just text of a court case.)

[Polycarp]

I’ll just link to my nitpick in the other cement truck thread.

[EmAnJ]

@ntucker

@EmAnJ

We had the same situation with our fence posts and getting the tailings as your friend. We had about 15 minutes notice and had to be ready with wheelbarrows when they arrived. Some times when they called, we just couldn’t do it, and when it did work out, we were able to fill about five or six post holes. It took us about 10 days to get everything done, but it saved us a couple of grand in the end. Totally worth it.

How does that work if they happen to have more leftover than you want?

With us (and in general) they just take it back to the plant and pour the leftovers in to lock blocks. That’s how our lock blocks are made - with leftovers. It’s a slightly lucrative side business for the company.