Posted on 08/04/2016 5:46:09 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Many many years ago, like 1979, I worked construction pouring concrete footers and setting forms for concrete walls.
Some of the hardest nastiest work anybody could do. The footers were easy. Humping the 4X8 aluminum forms in and out of the site was another story.
Setting the forms wasn’t an exact science and from time to time they weren’t quite centered on the footers. S*it happens.
And as the concrete went in and the pressure built you would get a blow out. A massive amount of concrete flowing out and out of control and it needed to be stopped. Someone would yell “Blowout” and I watched guys literally dive into the blowout trying to use their body to stop the flow. Then someone would yell “Bucket Brigade”. Dozens of five gallon buckets were collected and thrown into the blowout as 2 or three guys would scoop up the concrete and lift those buckets to more guys that were balancing themselves on top of this 8 foot high wall and would pass them along to a safe place back in the wall.
Some or I should say most of the guys I worked with were completely nuts. We had a job to do and did whatever it took to get the job done.
Worked hard and partied hard.
Everyday after work I was covered head to toe in concrete and used motor oil.
I loved Lava Soap.
>>> He’s the only man alive who knows how Jimmy Hoffa felt.
Like a hardened criminal??
Twist? All these years I thought they rotated.
My uncle got fired from the pickle plant for putting his “equipment” into the pickle slicer while he was on break.
In all fairness, though, they fired her too. :=)
LOL! Nice
That’s OK. Just pull him on out of there and in just a few hours he will be “Cured”.
Sound more like he was in the bag, not on one.
Leni
Leni...I think you are adding to the awful story...
Boy the comments are so good. It is HARD to pick the best of the day!
... In all fairness, though, they fired her too. :=)
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I laugh every time I see that joke. ...Below is off topic:
In the ‘60s, I worked at a defense contractor. Parking lot wasn’t fenced back then. ..........Gen’l Foreman in Mfg. and one of the female workers went to his pick-up camper in the parking area every day or so for a nooner at lunch time.
His wife caught on and pulled her car up behind the camper. It was so close that the small door could not be opened. She then walked to the guard shack and notified Security.
He was demoted to Foreman and she was fired. ....Remember, this was around 1966 and things were much different then.
That sucks, but did it affect the slump?
No aggregate or small aggregate that gets sprayed.
That was cold, but Hoffa was in too deep.
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