Today's haul

[dschwandt]

Today we helped move the concrete mixing plant to the next job site at Mt. Pleasant, IA for airport paving job.
These are the "pigs", the horizontal silos for cement storage.
Each will hold about 325,000 pounds of cement powder, or about 6 tractor trailer loads.
There were 2 already there, these will make for 5 total or 1.625 million pound capacity.
We will probably start filling them tomorrow or next week sometime.
It was a 175 mile haul to the next job.

 

[dschwandt]

Unloading bulk cement into the site spreader.

US Hwy 52 project East of Luxemburg, IA this week.

The spreader drops the cement on the ground about 4" deep then a MONSTER roto tiller works it into the soil.

The mix is then brought to grade "+" and compacted.

This stabilizes the sub grade in preparation for final base and paving.

The broken concrete in the 1st picture will be crushed and placed as base mat'l.

I am parked in these pic's in an area I would have gotten stuck in 3 days prior.
The spreader will hold my entire load of near 54,000 pounds.

 

[tlavalette]

Sounds like you are making soil cement. We did this 40 years ago building a bunker silo. Still in use today.

 

[dschwandt]

Yup!
You got it!!