After reading all the helpful responses to my earlier post I have thought of a different way to approach the job.
Instead of having a horizontal cold joint I would have one vertical cold joint, and a 10″ wall. The place at which the joint would be is on a eight foot section. 4 ft. of the wall would be the frost wall, support on both sides with gravel. The next two ft. would have gravel behind it. The last two feet would be daylight. Seems as thought there would be much less stress on the joint this way.
The benefit to this for me is I cut my formwork material in half and still efficently use the minimum delivery of ready mix.
Looking for more thoughts on this method.
Thank you,
Allen
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I still dislike breaking the job up, but you have yopur reasons. This version is beter structurally and easier to waterproof later, IMO
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