brownbagg,
Wanted to ask you for a story.
In all your years in the trade what would you say is the very worst mess-up you ever saw that occurred while you were on a site?
Thanks
brownbagg,
Wanted to ask you for a story.
In all your years in the trade what would you say is the very worst mess-up you ever saw that occurred while you were on a site?
Thanks
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two come to mind
1) 1000 yard pour, the mechanic got the entrained air line mix with the super p lines, so all the concrete got a triple dose of entrained air. The concrete never set. three week later it was like walking on a beach, kicking sand.
2) sewer treatment settlement pond clarifirer walls. one pour 500 feet long wall circle, 12 feet high, 2 ft thick. as we finish the pour , the form broke. it was like donimnos.
oh 3) weld broke on a concrete truck drum, fully loaded, drum came off truck and roll 100 feet across jobsite. I was washing my wheel barrow when it broke, about five feet away.
or the crane that drop its boom. concrete bucket falling, pumps breaking sparying everybody with concrete, elevated slabs falling with people on it. elevated slab catching fire while pouring. etc.
Sounds like you live an exciting life!
I knew you'd have some doozies but the drum breaking loose when yer 5 ft away!
dang, poopyer britches time right there!
So what happened with the 1000yard pour that never cured? Have to dig it all up and haul it away or what?
Edited 6/21/2009 11:01 pm ET by rez
concrete company bought it, complete to footer redo, it was a warehouse slab with rebar every foot each way, total lost. I have seen so much it pretty much not personal but business, i think i have some cheese crackers in the truck
Edited 6/21/2009 11:37 pm by brownbagg
What happened to the mechanic?
They toss him into the new pour?
Once when I was inspecting/testing, I let a 7" slump get placed (foreman talked me into it, don't ask how) when the spec. was for 5" max.. I tell you I was sweating it big time for a week. 7 day break came back good. Thank you God!
I've got a good one. Job I was a PM a few years back we had a pour at 4am. One of those big Schwing pump rolls on site, drives up to the job and over a protruding tree stump. Pokes a big hole in the fiberglass oil pan and oil goes EVERYWHERE! Thats when you find out those big diesels really do hold something like 14 quarts of oil!
What a mess. It took longer to clean up the oil spill than it did to get a replacement pump and pour out 50 yards of mix. I thought for sure the EPA was going to pull up at any moment and I was going to jail for some environmental crime. I felt like Capt Hazelwood of the Exxon Valdez fame.
I was holding the end of a Schwing pumps hose when the rig tipped over, end of the boom was directly over me and coming down.
Scary shid....
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
Those big trucks hold like 12 gallons of oil.
I'm not BrownBagg, and I don't have much concrete experience, or stories to share. But I do remember one outstanding one, from about 30 years ago. Malibu hills house, large addtion, lots of concrete in the hillside to meet seismic codes. I don't remember how many yards - I was just a young apprentice. But I remember the contractor figured the concrete at 9 cubic feet per yard. So when the forms were full, there were like 3 more concrete trucks lined up, full and ready to pour.
Hoo-boy, what a deal. He not only had bought way too much concrete, but he had to pay each driver to go find someplace to dump it. Nothing like getting the job off to a great start!
OK, now I'll go back and read brownbaggs stories!
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DW was once directing the nozzle for me; line pumping some ICF footers about 3' high. I was bucking the hose on the other side of the footing, backed up; kinked the line behind me.
GLORT! The spurt straightened the tube in an instant, she got a wad of mud right in the belly that knocked her sprawling. Made a big bruise, even.
Oh - and she was about seven months pregnant, too, did I mention that?
Forrest - not gonna' hear the last of that one
When pouring my ICF house. they finished the pour and the pump operater was clearing the lines. on got plugged. He took off a coupling and put on a pressure plate and tried to pump water backwards and was wacking it with a mallet then he went to take off the plate. I was standing my the GC and yelled "No" but he sprung the latch holding the pressure plate.
Well he got hit in the face with crete and it blew him back against the gaurd rail.
The GC and I just threw him in the truck and sped for the hospital. He was ok but looked like he got a faceful of buckshot and we found the plate bent in half and about 100 yards away.
Very lucky indeed
I see that every day, or when he hit the clamp and the hose goes flying. there is always someone that wants to help. with a clog pump, leave the operator alone and stay back 100 feet