[AT] OT Concrete Slip Forms

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Sat Aug 14 18:28:20 PDT 2004


Yes Spencer I've built some "soil cement" stuff myself.  It is often used to
make work pads for pipe lines etc. by just mixing portland cement into the
soil as you said.  I think the dam was a little more towards real concrete
but the same idea.

Charlie
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From: "Spencer Yost" <yostsw at atis.net>
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Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: [AT] OT Concrete Slip Forms


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> On 8/14/2004 at 8:07 AM charlie hill wrote:
> >they hauled the cement/stone/sand mixture onto the dam in big (terex
type)
> >dump trucks where it was spread in layers, then water trucks sprayed
water
> >on it and rollers compacted it.
> >
>
> This is done when you need something better than soil but don't necessary
> have to have concrete.   The oldtimers here used to much the same thing by
> mixing cement with soil.  They then watered in place or maybe not even
> water it - let ground moisture do it.  They did this for building floors
> (dust control), stone wall footings, post holes, etc.  BTW, some of my old
> buildings's structural posts and fence posts had their holes filled with a
> soil/concrete mixture.
>
> Spencer Yost
> Owner, ATIS
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