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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Aug 5, 2009 23:37:26 GMT -5
We did a shot crete V ditch job out in Laguna Hills a few months ago. It was on a hill in an upscale residential neighborhood. Normally we pour shot crete at a two inch slump, but these guys were running 600 feet of hose. We poured at about a five. Here are the pics I took.
The pump:
The top of the hill:
The hill:
The V ditch:
These guys were sweating hard. They had another shot crete pump on standby of course. It was a city job, so money wasn't something they were worried about.
Our tax dollars at work. 
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gant
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Post by gant on Aug 6, 2009 18:34:23 GMT -5
we did one for St. Louis metro sewer district and we were driving in a sewer channel called river des pere, they were shooting it on the rock wall they had in the channel because we had alot of flooding and alot of the rock wall got flushed away..
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Post by BillyCement on Aug 6, 2009 19:00:20 GMT -5
Holy Jeez!!  Living in NJ I've never seen land that wide open. What's the average price for a home in that neighborhood? I'm guessing it's about $500,000 out of my price range.
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Post by LEAD DOG on Aug 9, 2009 21:25:10 GMT -5
EASY NOW BILLY...WATER STILL FLOWS DOWN HILL THERE TOO 
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Post by Mort on Aug 10, 2009 19:55:51 GMT -5
Billy, out here in the wild wild west, we still have land like that. Not too far out of the cities, either.
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Aug 10, 2009 20:47:07 GMT -5
Holy Jeez!! Living in NJ I've never seen land that wide open. What's the average price for a home in that neighborhood? I'm guessing it's about $500,000 out of my price range. |
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Post by cfconcrete on Aug 10, 2009 22:09:03 GMT -5
Are these the hills & houses we'll see on fire eventually back east here on the news during the next brush fire season?
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Aug 12, 2009 16:41:13 GMT -5
Billy, yea, those houses START in the 500 grand range. And like CMT says, they are on what we call "Postage Stamp Lots".
CF, most of the fires we get out here are out in the canyons with a lot of vegetation and high winds. So far this year we've only had one big fire up near Santa Barbara.
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Post by Mort on Aug 12, 2009 16:46:52 GMT -5
Up here, in eastern Washington, they have a desert climate, had no rain for a month, then a s***load of lightning strikes. There were quite a few fires.
My father-in-law does ground support when they have one, so that helped them with their bills.
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Post by cfconcrete on Aug 12, 2009 21:58:42 GMT -5
That's some serious sh!t watching those fires, and the earthquakes, landslides, floods, I'll take potholes, blizzards & ice storms any day...
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Post by Mort on Aug 19, 2009 8:49:00 GMT -5
Ah well, you're screwed no matter where you are. I've only ever lost one thing due to act-of-God, an old 8x8 metal shed. That was from snow.
We have these things in Washington called "hills" and "mountains." If you live on one, you're pretty safe.
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Living in NJ I've never seen land that wide open. What's the average price for a home in that neighborhood? I'm guessing it's about $500,000 out of my price range. 
