New Kindergarten - Concrete Mixing

Concreting is a tedious job , when done by hand.

(Right - Jesus pours the cement into the barrel)

(Left - Jesus pours the concrete onto the tipped wheel barrow)

Our builders are used to doing it this way, but to improve matters PC acquired an electric powered cement mixer to speed the task.

And for the men it was like a Christmas present.

(Right - add the sand)

(The only reservation that I had was their method of connecting the electricity!! Safety is not higth on the agenda here. Electric power is 220 volts and there are NO earth connections - everything is 2 pin!! And at work here they took the power leads - no connecting plugs and wound the bare wires around the one running from the cement mixer!!! But it seemed to work, and no one sufrfrered - at that stage!!)

(Left - our new mixer)

The other slight problem was that when the cement mixer was tipped to pour the slurry the barrel was that low to the ground the receiving wheel barrow had to be tipped on it's side to receive it. Then with the angle of the wheel barrow some of the cement spilled onto the ground. Still it did help the speed of the work, and the workers loved it.

(Right - another load of freshly poured concrete is on its way)

(Left - inside the workmen are packing the poured concrete around the foundation stones)

(Right - the pourer returns for another barrow load of concrete)

(Left - another load arrives and is tipped onto the foundation stones)

(Right - the concrete pour continues)