We had no fewer than three cement mixers in front of our house today. Strangely enough, two were full of cement, and the other had the pump attached to it they used to pump the cement into our house. Why they couldn’t just fill the truck with the pump full of cement too, and save the trouble of bringing an extra vehicle, I’m not sure.
The other thing I find curious is why, all over the world apparently, cement trucks always have to have silly slogans on them. Translated, this one says something along the lines of ‘Concretely into cement’. When I lived in the area around San Francisco some of the cement trucks used to say things like ‘Get a load of this!’ or ‘Find a need and fill it!’. Is it just that working with cement means you have to have the sense of humor that goes along with it?
The tool above they used to pull large amounts of cement around the room, in order to get it level. It was powered and vibrated, and could move a lot in one go.
Here it was coming in.
This tool had a flexible pipe on the end, was also powered and vibrated. They used it to insert into places the concrete might not have flowed on it’s own, like the inkassing or the odd corner, in order to encourage the concrete to flow.
Finally, when they finished with everything else, they smoothed out the floor. The picture above was taken from the same place the distance shots in this post were made.
It’s wonderful to see the progress.