Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Diesel Creek" channel.

I'm telling you. No matter what you do that seam will end up leaking and holding water and rotting out. You have to shed water to stand a chance of holding it back.
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Whatever size shop you think you need quadruple that and you might be OK.
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@AutoCrete concrete is exothermic. It makes heat as it cures. You could see it steaming in this video. But yeah below freezing we'd have put blankets on it. Full rated strength is achieved after 28 days.
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@jakes.1199 tarps are a subsidy for the struggling plastics conglomerates.
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Who was working fast? They only poured 48 yards. They did it all out of the boom too. If they were on an upper floor you'd have to lay pipe then flex line. Then you'd be working. Every piece of flex weighs 300 pounds full. And that's just how you have to move it. I've been on flex pours with just 4 laborers. That's 2 on the hose and 2 on come alongs. Which doesn't really work. You really need 6 guys. So the come along guys would have to help the hose guys. We poured 150 cubic yards that day and the deck was only 3 inches thick. We bitched at the contractor so the next day he got us one other man. Thank God for drugs and alcohol.
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I've seen pulses rise on pours. I've been on pours where the labor alone was costing $32,000 a minute. With that kind of financial pressure some people do tend to get a bit high strung. I walked up to one guy once that looked like he was about to pass out and said, Don't worry we'll get it. The relief that passed over his face was priceless.
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@YAUUN I've been in the thick of a lot of pours and this crew is a bit too freeform. In an organized pour things are done more methodically. Everyone there just does their one thing. If you're on the screed then that's all you do. You're squatting and sawing. I'm stopped at 17:55 in the video and one guy has the screed up in the air and he's using it like a cane or something. In a big time pour that would never happen. That screed line would never stop. The whole object is to pass that stick over all the concrete. Holding it up like it's a flag pole ain't getting it done.
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@tsant6591 why you're right. I missed the sensor on it. My bad.
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You cut concrete to put control joints in it. Because it's going to crack. Hopefully it cracks in the control joint. But it never does.
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Pouring concrete isn't too bad. Jackhammering concrete up can be a bit of a bother. But that's still not as bad as digging through solid blue stone is. I was begging the guy for a jackhammer and he said he couldn't do it. So I had to do it with a pick and a shovel and a sledgehammer. I think I had a shale bar too?
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I don't know about you but I did a year of commercial flat roofing. Glass and emulsion, cold tar, hot tar, rubber, EDPM. So I may know a thing or three about roofing. How this guy did it is not how it is done. His first idea of extending the roof over the containers is the best idea. That knee wall is just going to give him problems. Although flat roofs generally do have parapet walls on them. We used a track flashing system on them. Plus flat roofs have drains. We used the worst stuff they ever put into a bucket to put up flashing. God I've seen grown men cry tangling with flashing cement. Dudes you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley at night even. We'd get these scary mofos out of the ghetto and most of them wouldn't last til lunchtime. They'd get what we called, "The grip of death." The Grip is when you'd inadvertently glue the handle of the trowel to your hand. See every time you dipped the trowel into the bucket to get a glob of cement there'd be this little stringer thread of cement. You wouldn't think nothing of it. But after a couple hundred of them little threads get on your hand it is like you stuck your hand in the bucket then. Us experienced guys we knew we had to break that thread. The rookies didn't. It was funny! The first rule of roofing is roofers work high.
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@jakes.1199 I suppose. Water still has a way of leaking in a way that maximizes blood pressure rise.
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I'd like to see that crew on some choker straps moving flex hose. The least amount of concrete I ever poured in a day was 136 cubic yards. We'd do 50 yards before morning break. You can spin a truck empty in 5 minutes. My personal high was 524 yards in one pour. We could get the trucks in and just dumped it out of the chutes.
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I don't know. I worked in a shop once that had tiled floors. Them asphalt tiles? It's a lot easier on the back.
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I've never seen concrete come out of a pump so slowly. It's certainly nice to work with like that. Because when it's pumping hard it sprays. You end up with little balls of concrete all over you. It splashes back up at you. None of them were wearing safety glasses either. Getting concrete in your eye sucks. I imagine that concrete had a lot of plasticizer in it because of the low temperature they were pouring at. That plasticizer chemical is nasty stuff. Not that virgin concrete is fantastic.
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I've poured a lot of concrete and I wasn't so impressed. With that boom I suppose they didn't really need to pour in any pattern. The machine was doing the work for them. But if they did it the regular way with pipe and flex hose they'd have had to been more methodical about their moves then. Every piece of flex weighs 300 pounds when it is full. And you're dragging it. You have to be real careful when you drag it too otherwise it'll split open. Then you have to dig the clamp out of the concrete, wash it off and reattach the hoses. Which is less fun than it sounds to do. You have to stick your hand in the hose and dig the concrete out of the hose. It sucks!
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I've never put in a concrete floor but I've poured a lot of pads and decks. If it's on the ground it's a pad and if it's on decking then it's a deck.
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@johnobiro5202 it is not referred to as a floor on a pour. It just isn't. You're pouring a pad or a deck. I've heard it called a slab too. I don't think it's a floor until some flooring is applied to it? A whole level is a floor too. So you could say something like, "We're pouring on the 10th floor today."
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@johnobiro5202 get a clue.
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I did a pour once in a data center in the electrical room and there was so much PVC conduit you couldn't even see the ground. And they had stubs up all over the place too. It was a nightmare. I was also working with these crackheads out of Brooklyn that had never poured concrete before in their lives. So I was having a bit of a time that day. Anyways I dropped a hose clamp onto some of the PVC and just shattered it. So the electrician got in my face and started pitching a bitch. I told him STFU or I'll break every pipe here. He STF right up. If that prick had stubbed it out better I wouldn't have been having so much of a time of it. I broke a few more on him just for good measure anyways though. Some people. The nerve of them. That was the worst pour I was ever on.
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@langdons2848 I was a lot younger and stronger then. I wouldn't do it today. I couldn't. I shouldn't have done it then. I was a lot dumber back then too. My name doesn't end in a vowel though so I got all the find 'em and kill 'em jobs. But those concrete hoses are really heavy. I've been told that a single section full weighs 300 pounds. I've never put on on a scale to verify that but I do know they're pretty heavy. Then there's these big metal swing clamps that join the hoses together. So yeah it's basically like sledgehammering the floor picking up and dropping those things. Then that room had stub pipes coming up all over the place. Some a couple feet off the floor. Oh yeah I'm going to let it down easy. Uh huh. Then one of those electricians burned that job to the ground anyways. He figured if he could just work it one more time he could pay his mortgage off. I think he got busted for it? The things people will do for a buck.
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@langdons2848 we didn't get paid to have those hoses empty. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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@scottsmith1569 If they were pouring between columns using hose they'd have struggled. There's a pattern you pour in to make it all work out. You make "U"s which you level and then you fill in the middles of the "U"s. Rinse and repeat. I worked in the New York metro area on billion dollar jobs. I think we knew what we were doing.
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@AutoCrete I poured a smokestack anchor once. It was 20 feet on a side a cube. The next day you could feel the feet about 10 feet away from it. You should have seen the steel in that thing. Talk about it ain't going no place. 6 inch grid mats of rebar every 6 inches. It was the Matrix.
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@AutoCrete 4 days goes fast. I got hit by a piece of 2" rebar once. We weren't even pouring concrete. We were just using it as a weight to keep an extension cord out of water. My buddy Scotto decided to rip the sump pump out of the pit it was in real fast so the water didn't drain back in and in the process he brought the bar into the ditch on us. He forgot it was up there I guess? I liked that hard hat too. It split right in half on my head. Fortunately I have a naturally hard head anyways. Getting hit still smarted though. I've gotten beaned in the head a few times now that I'm thinking about it. But that was one of them.
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If you're just going to lay around all day then just stay in bed. Those people you're picking up at the train station are not masons.
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@ronnieswindski825 now see here Dumbrowski I don't know where you pollaks get off. I understand far more than you'll ever know. Enough that if I have to be under something I use a creeper!
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They didn't look Italian to me. Guinnies are hands down the best masons on the planet. I've worked with them right out of the old country. They came over on a boat sleeping on the stones they set. There's certain kinds of marble that's the only way you're going to get it.
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Concrete is placed. You get laid on your own time!
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They looked like a bunch of run of the mill scabs to me. They showed up and got it done though. So credit where credit's due.
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They didn't look like they knew what they were doing. I was in the union commercial building trades in the New York metro area so I worked with crews that knew what they were doing. The smallest pour I've ever been on was 3 times the size of this one. The largest over 10 times as much. I've seen old guinnies bull floating that were older than that whole crew put together. And they'd been doing it their whole lives. They'd be out there with a white wash brush blessing the concrete with some water. Probably was holy water they were using. You have to bring up the fat.
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