Today, another 33 columns were filled!!
We decided that it would make sense to split the mixing load in half and do
only a half a bag of cement and 3 buckets of ballast. It works so much
better this way that we hardly need to fiddle with the cement mixer, just
put in 6 litres of water, half a bag of cement, mix this up for a second or
so, and then chuck in the 3 buckets of ballast .. and that’s it!! it is
virtually mixed all together as soon as the last bucket goes in. We do add a
quick spray of water to loosen the mixture up a bit and it then pours out of
the barrows and straight into the hollow columns.
So today, the columns were 6 blocks high, hence why we did only (huh!) 33
for the 9 bags, whereas yesterday we did 31 columns for 8 bags. But
yesterday, we were doing just 5 blocks high columns!! That makes it a rate
of three and two thirds columns per bag today, against three and seven
eighths columns per bag yesterday, if you are interested in the maths!
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