It's so good to hear from you. Thanks for the tip on the auger. Wish I had mechanical know how. It sure would simplify things. What I do have though is one of those lift tables. It goes up about 4 feet I think. I can put several 5 gallon buckets on it and pump it up to where I stand on the scaffold. So far I am only up about 5 feet. Had to take some time off for this computer course I'm taking. But I sure would rather be slinging the slurry than anything else.
Sincerely, Judith
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To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
From: slurryguy@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 19:16:15 +0000
Subject: [papercreters] Re: Who's making wet slurry this weekend?
Go Slinkster!!!
Great to see you back slinging slurry. Wooo! Hoo!
Slipforming can go faster and easier at first... but the higher the wall gets, the harder the work becomes hefting buckets of wet slurry to fill the forms.
If you can find a cheap salvage agricultural grain auger to pump slurry from your mixer to the top of the forms it could save you massive amounts of bucket labor as the wall gets high. You might ask around with any farmer friends if they know of a cheap used one that you could get. Wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on Craig's list either. (just don't get tricked into buying a small toy scale model grain auger... lots of those get advertised too.)
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> Started a slip form wall a few weeks ago. Feel like I will never go back to the block method again. So much faster and the wall comes out smooth and very hard. Had video but it is locked in the camera. Have my computer guru working on it.
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