Posted on 07/06/2020 2:43:13 PM PDT by BeauBo
The new alliance between Holcombe Mixers, Fisher Sand and Gravel Co. and Caterpillar Inc. is the latest strategic collaboration to accelerate completion of the border wall.
“Working with Holcombe Mixers has been a game changer,” said Tommy Fisher, President and CEO of Fisher Sand and Gravel. “We made a commitment to President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security, and the US Army Corps of Engineers to get the wall up faster, and do it financially smarter. Generally, you’re pouring 2-5 loads per day. With Holcombe Mixers, we can pour 20-25 loads of fresh concrete each day and not have to worry about it exceeding required temperatures.”
Pouring high volumes of concrete in remote areas with hot and arid climates like Arizona’s creates extreme challenges to mitigate the concrete from setting up too quickly when mixed in a traditional drum mixer. Volumetric mixers from Holcombe are able to mix fresh concrete on site at the point of the pour. The low- and high ad-mixture systems add an additional layer of flexibility to ensure that the concrete being produced can be placed and finished in any extreme condition.
“An element of control is key for a project that demands not only durability, but also the volume of fresh concrete that needs to be poured 16 hours a day,” said Brent Holcombe, Managing Partner of Holcombe Mixers. “Our 12-yard aggregate bins have supported a 120% increase to the standard payload where daily concrete pour goals can be achieved and ultimately surpassed. We are thrilled to be part of this visionary team effort.”
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“Amazing technology to be so efficient”
It’s about the process.
Innovation keeps moving. Can this end up being a continuous pour. A train of specialized CAT loaders holding in place a wall section waiting for concrete. While the pour is occurring (20 to 25 loads per day) and waiting for concrete to set another train of CAT’s is assembling and moving in to place the next section of wall upstream of the poured wall section.
For water 40 ft frac tanks or poseidon ponds can be used and moved to follow the wall at the pour site. Maybe they can source it directly from the tankers. Maybe long stretches of large diameter flex hose can help.
i must admit i was exaggerating to try to make a point. my initial vision was that they would all be on an assembly line, working on flat panel displays. (however, that vision is not as poetic as working on an agave farm, so...)
“Where do they source their water for the mix?”
If they are close enough to town, they can fill up the tanker trucks from the municipal supply (which they pay for).
In some places, the Government has water sources developed (like National Parks), and can provide water as Government Furnished Equipment (GFE).
In many rural situations, they drill wells and pump.
Water supply is a critical material input, that they have to plan for it, before starting each project.
More good news. Fisher “stole” my idea for erecting panels and I’m ok with that.;-)
It was poetic and inspiring, to think of drug ridden cartel gunmen sweating out their impurities and cleansing their hearts in some honest manual labor, shucking agave like Grandpa.
I just wanted to throw out a few more details, about just how far-ranging and comprehensive the Trump Administration’s strategy for securing the border really goes. Beyond just the very visible construction, there is technology, policy, diplomacy, Military involvement - and major supporting efforts to improve economic and social factors underpinning immigration as well.
They work the whole big picture - the “All of the Above” approach.
“Fisher “stole” my idea for erecting panels”
Great minds think alike...
“I read somewhere about those big Cats with precision handling accuracy cost a $mill each they must all have linked GPS to get those dead straight walls in place for miles at a time.”
More Great American innovation.
They do that with agricultural combines too. When it is time to put in the rice crop in Arkansas, a formation of precisely aligned combines sweeps across giant swathes of land semi-robotically, running 24 hours a day - GPS, laser leveling, artificial intelligence, all networked together.
I am pretty stoked to see how Fisher’s crews get running, after they are all up to full speed. I hope we get some drone video, or some good time lapse video, posted on CBP’s website. I’d guess that after the monsoons are over (Labor Day), they should be firing on all cylinders, full speed ahead.
Its going to be glorious!
i must confess that i feel that i am at my most poetic when i am consuming the liquid spirits distilled from the fruits of such labor, and paid for by the fruits of my own labor. recalling tragic boating incidents of long ago. lo, is not enlightened self interest poetic?
“Another promise kept by Trump. Dang, he’s good at keeping promises.”
Amen.
What a Godsend he is.
Save a spot on Mount Rushmore.
Thanx for the color
“Mexico became more cooperative a year ago with asylum, end of catch and release , ...”
It was an offer they couldn’t refuse. A once in a generation opportunity for economic development, or crushing tariffs that went up another 5% a month until they inevitably buckled under anyway. Mexican leaders made the right choice for their people.
China has already paid over $60 billion in tariffs under President Trump - providing the money to protect our farmers from Chinese trade retaliation, reinvest in our key industries (like rare earth metals), and pick up the bill for Mexico, to build our border wall.
Mexico is one of the biggest beneficiaries in the world, of our economic de-coupling from communist China.
And they prioritized where the wall would have the most impact.
“And they prioritized where the wall would have the most impact.”
They had to analyze the crap out it.
On his fifth day in office, President Trump issued Executive Order 13767, directing that the wall be built, and that a Comprehensive Plan to Achieve Full Operational Control of the Southern Border be developed. He gave them six months for the plan, but every reviewer in DC (like the Office of Management and Budget, and Congressional Budget Office), and all of the political opponents on the Left, peppered them with the old 20 questions, so that it took almost two years to answer all the objections and what-ifs.
There are multiple criteria for prioritizing segments however (illegal immigration, drug smuggling, terrorist risk, counter-cartel considerations, vulnerability for “caravan” mob-rush attacks, assaults on Agents, etc.).
Different funding sources, have different weighting of the criteria. DoD Counter-Narcotics funds of course, had to go toward segments where there was heavy drug traffic. Congressional appropriations had to go where Congress said (San Diego, El Paso, the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo).
Fortunately, most of the criteria converge on the same favorable routes - the border cities and the Rio Grande Valley. So even if they are optimizing one criteria with a particular pot of money, it is mostly hitting the highest priority spots for the other criteria as well.
The top 300-400 miles accounts for more than 80% of all historical illegal traffic, of all types.
There have been a bunch of reasons that made the 100 high priority miles in the Rio Grande Valley Sector (that alone accounted for more than 40% of the total illegal immigration over the Southern Border), much more difficult, expensive and time consuming than elsewhere.
About 400 private landowners had to settled with, some of them complex and poorly documented ownership. The area is subject to hurricanes and flooding, requiring special engineering, and anything built that could divert water, is subject to a binding, ratified International Treaty.
So even though the Rio Grande Valley is a higher operational priority than Organ Pipe National Monument in Arizona, Organ Pipe was ready to go right away, so work started there first. So the priority order of the work is not perfect, but it is being carefully managed. The more than 100 miles of the Rio Grande Valley have now already had their contracts awarded, and construction has now started on several of the segments there. It should continue to pick up speed down there through the Summer and Fall.
By the end of this year, San Diego and Yuma, the first and third heaviest trafficked corridors, will be effectively closed by new Wall System, and the second heaviest corridor (Rio Grande Valley) will be under full scale construction.
Several other major corridors working down the priority list will also be shut, or largely shut, by the end of this year. By the end of next year (assuming President Trump is re-elected), all the major corridors will be pretty much shut by new Wall System, and we will be nearing full operational control of the border.
No. It will make it more manageable to arrest and throw out the illegal alien invaders because there won’t be many of them. If you come here illegally, I don’t care how “hard you work”...get OUT! You are a illegal alien criminal.
ALL true.
I have a second cousin who lives and works in this country for a company from her own country. The illegals TICK HER OFF because SHE and her company did everything by the book.
It's doubly difficult to catch many of the illegals because AMERICANS hire them for nannies, housekeepers, house cleaners and gardeners.
Groups of illegals have places where they can be picked up for work. I don't know where that is where I live but it ticks me off.
AMERICANS hire them and pay them. It's NOT legal either! The workers get NO social security, no unemployment insurance, no medical or accident insurance. They get CASH and send it "home."
If Americans want to STOP the illegals they can:
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It's not rocket science.
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