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   Guest_ | May 27, 1999 06:08pm | #1

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   I will be interested to read these posts as well. I don't see an advantage to slip forming unless you are doing a very tall building and need a continuous pour for strength. I have heard that they poured the big grain silos in the Port of Tacoma that way, but have never done it, or heard anyone say they worked on that type of pour. - yb

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   Guest_ | May 31, 1999 08:30am | #2

   *DinoNeed more info before giving advice. What are you building? [email protected]

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   Guest_ | May 31, 1999 08:25pm | #3

   *The most common type of slip forms are road paving equipment.I've never heard of slip dorms in residential const.I learned how to build silo slip forms in carpenter school. Real useful info!About as useful as these beauts!Save the trees ... Wipe your butt with an owl.Necrophilia: That uncontrollable urge to crack open a cold one.Honk if you've never seen an Uzi fired from a car windowSeen on the back of a biker's vest: If you can read this, my wife felloff.Fight Crime: Shoot Back!If you can read this, please flip me back over... (seen upside down, onaJeep)Never raise your hands to your kids; it leaves your groin unprotected.Remember folks: Stop lights timed for 35mph are also timed for 70mph.If walking is so good for you, then why does my mailman look like JabbatheHun??Heart Attacks...God's Revenge For Eating His Animal FriendsWe have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?Axe me about EbonicsBoldly going nowhereCat: The other white meatCAUTION - Driver legally blondeDon't be sexist - broads hate that!Eat Well, Stay Fit, Die AnywayHe's not dead, He's electroencephalographically challengedIf at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for youIf you can't dazzle them with brilliance, riddle them with bulletsIf you lived in your car, you'd be home by nowWARNING! Driver only carries $20.00 in ammunitionWhat has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bullAccept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're thestatue."Blue

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   Fred_Matthews | Jun 01, 1999 10:08am | #4

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   Dino:

   First- cement is a fine, grey powder-very difficult to "pour"

   Second- why would you want to slip form walls?

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   Dino_ | Jun 05, 1999 05:25am | #5

   *Davo, we are building a log home. Basement walls are 9' high, with 4 or 5' buried. Perimeter 30' X 30". The slipforming technique that we are vaguely familiar with involves building a set of forms a couple feet high, filling in with concrete and rocks then setting another set of forms on top, filling those, and moving the bottom set to the top of the second set, or something like that. Lack details, what to do and what not to do.

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   Guest_ | Jun 05, 1999 06:29am | #6

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   Hi Blue,

   Thanks for the laugh.

   Gabe

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   Guest_ | Jun 05, 1999 02:12pm | #7

   *heres a detail Dino: Don't do it!Blue

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   Guest_ | Jun 07, 1999 09:07am | #9

   *Dino.....Mostly slip forming is used in commerial work. In that coloums make up most of that. As you described above is a pretty good describion of how its done. For a 9 ft. wall I don't see why you would use a slip form. Slip forms reguire more labor and materials. In walls on commerial work tip ups have replaced slip forms. You still find slip forms where wall strenght is a problem. If your contractor uses slip forms then he'll have to patch the walls to cover up the holes left from she-bolts.

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   Dino_ | Jun 07, 1999 09:07am | #8

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   We are going to be building soon and are
   going to be pouring cement walls they call this slipforming if I have my information correct and was wondering if anyone has any information on this technique that I could pass on to my husband?