The crew is ready to pour the roof. Once again it will be a non-stop activity but this time there is no machine to help lift the concrete up to the roof. Other than the electric concrete mixers it will all be done by hand.
One man brings the concrete soup in a wheel barrow from the mixers to the men on the scaffolding. It is a very loose mix they use. I don't think it has any "slump" at all. When we built our house in Canada the concrete was so dense that when it was poured it pretty much stayed in the same position that it was poured in. How much concrete spreads out is the measure of slump.
Buckets scoop the soup and are lifted by hand up to the men on the scaffolding who in turn lift the buckets up to the roof and are then poured into a wheel barrow on the top of the roof.
Louis (seated) is completely covered in concrete dust. I had to be subtle about taking the picture because he didn't look like he was in a great mood about it all.... actually he is generally a very happy man but I think he had been working very hard and was quite tired.
Here they are loading the wheelbarrow.
Arrachera time! Carlos preps the beef for the well deserved BBQ on Friday afternoon. He raises beef on his ranch up in San Bartolo - the crew are all from San Bartolo too.
Duke's pretty interested in that arrachera too!
This is the weekend clean up crew......
These cows eat the most unusual un-cow like things...
Concrete bags for example....
Paper....
What? You have a problem with that?
2 comments:
perhaps this breed is related to goats. Work is moving fast. Great crew.
I haven`t seen the goats devouring cement bags, they prefer pretty much everything else. Particularly palo verde - a tree that is not recommended for burning as the smoke is quite toxic. Eating - I haven`t read any recommendations for that....
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