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Wilshire Grand Breaks Record For Largest Concrete Pour
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| February 16, 2014 1:00 PM
Posted on 02/16/2014 4:31:57 PM PST by BenLurkin
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Follow up to yesterday's story
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:31:57 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Hoover dam was bigger, and it was continuous.
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:33:57 PM PST
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: BenLurkin
73 floors? In LA? Doesn't seem wise.
How would it feel to be that high during an earthquake?
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:35:42 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
(Until further notice the /s is implied...)
To: SampleMan
Hoover dam was a lot of separate pours. They allowed the concrete to dry before pouring the next level.
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:36:46 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
82 million lbs (who writes this stuff ... I thought concrete was measured in yards ... ) of FOOTER ... big deal.
The vibrators had the biggest and hardest job
Now ... if they were going to pour 73 stories of WALL ... now THERE'S a Guiness World Book of Record !!
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:41:38 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: knarf
OOPS ... write (pun intended) in front of my eyes ... 21,200 yds
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:42:57 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: ZOOKER
A whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on.
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:43:13 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: driftdiver
“Hoover dam was a lot of separate pours.”
They had to keep stopping to fish bodies out:-)
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:44:11 PM PST
by
babygene
( .)
To: babygene
“They had to keep stopping to fish bodies out:-)”
I’m not certain that they actually did fish the bodies out.
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:48:28 PM PST
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: The Antiyuppie
As I recall reading about the building of the dam, they became part of the foundation.
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:50:40 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: BenLurkin
That’s a lot of kickbacks.
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:52:15 PM PST
by
umgud
(2A can't survive dem majorities)
To: ZOOKER
The following is a excerpt from a previous post.
**//excerpt begin/
73 floors? In LA? Doesn’t seem wise.
How would it feel to be that high during an earthquake?
/excerpt end//**
This been an excerpt from a previous post.
The following is the entire text of my reply
**\begin text\
Cool!
\end text\**
The previous was the entire text of my replay.
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posted on
02/16/2014 4:58:51 PM PST
by
ThomasThomas
(It is your fault that I blame others for my actions!)
To: ZOOKER
I’ve seen that hole at 7th and Fig here in downtown L.A (the better part of DT LA). Didn’t dawn on me that construction for the building required that much amount but I think the building is just to top the opposite building across it.
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posted on
02/16/2014 5:04:04 PM PST
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: onedoug; stylecouncilor
To: BenLurkin
21,200 yards in 18 hours.
1,177 yards per hour.
118 trucks an hour.
looks like they have 11 boom pumps.
107 cy per pump per hour.
that's dumping some concrete.
if they were pouring a 4" thick driveway that would be 1,696,000 SF.
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posted on
02/16/2014 5:11:52 PM PST
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead.)
To: BenLurkin
73 stories in one of the most seismically active places in America??
Kinda scary, if you ask me.
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posted on
02/16/2014 5:13:40 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: BenLurkin
It was always my understanding that if you pour too much concrete at once the heat would make it take forever to set. I read the reason they poured the Hoover Dam in sections is that if they had poured it all at once it would still be curing today. I imagine concrete has gotten better in the last 80 years but I would think the general principle woudl still be the same
To: SampleMan
That’s what I was wondering. Certainly the dam couldn’t have been continuous from bottom to top, could it? How would the bottom of the forms withstood the concreto-static pressure till it cured? I’d have assumed they’d pour it like a layer cake in maybe 20-foot layers. Even if it wasn’t, I could still see single pours bigger than this one. But how would Guinness have missed such an obvious one? And what about 3-gorges dam in China? That one’s immense.
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posted on
02/16/2014 5:31:19 PM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: ThomasThomas
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posted on
02/16/2014 5:31:26 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Jonty30; babygene; The Antiyuppie
There are no bodies in the dam. Each pour was only a matter of inches at a time. If someone would have slipped and fallen down, they would have been able to easily stand up or coworkers could have easily helped them.
A body would a been a problem with structural integrity.
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posted on
02/16/2014 5:35:15 PM PST
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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