Concrete discussion

[Sinister Intents]

I'm pretty good at concrete work, 'tis my occupation. I am a concrete worker. Ask me questions and I'll answer them.

[Ele'ill]

how many store bought 90lb bags of Portland Concrete can you carry at one time

[Sinister Intents]

how many store bought 90lb bags of Portland Concrete can you carry at one time

Two by hand and several via wheelbarrow

[Per Levy]

how many people did you burry into concrete for the mafia?

[Sinister Intents]

how many people did you burry into concrete for the mafia?

None, but I am related to mafia members

[Art Vandelay]

If you had murdered someone for the mafia and burried them in concrete, how would you have done it?

[Sinister Intents]

If you had murdered someone for the mafia and burried them in concrete, how would you have done it?

I don't know. I guess shoot them cover them in cement and toss them off a boat.

[La Guaneña]

Are you unionized?

[Sinister Intents]

Are you unionized?

Technically, I'm pro union and a big part of this business my father started.

[La Guaneña]

Technically, I'm pro union and a big part of this business my father started.

I see, just normal petty bourgeoisie.

[Sinister Intents]

I see, just normal petty bourgeoisie.

Eventually the business will be a co op

[Ele'ill]

how many people have you let your father fire

[Sinister Intents]

how many people have you let your father fire

We've only fired two workers, and both for reasons of being destructive to our equipment and for a few other reasons. I fired one for being a fascist, and my dad fired fired another guy because he was destructive, would sabotage our work, was always late, and he was an overall abusive employee, he'd come to work high on the pills he was abusing.

Other employees left because the winter would come and were a seasonal business.

[Ele'ill]

Why was he sabotaging your work

[SHORAS]

Why was he sabotaging your work

The capitalist gave his reason for this. Sabotage is a weapon of the worker.

[Sinister Intents]

Why was he sabotaging your work

He was sabotaging our work because of the pills he was taking, they were really fucking him up, that and he's had a history of destructive tendencies at other jobs. I don't know the full story on him, but the other guy who was a fascist didn't like that I was openly communist and was trying to actually harm us on the job. He caused a shed we were tearing down to collapse on my father. He would also sexually harass passerby women and said really disturbing things about them. He was very much so a white nationalist and talked of killing 'subhumans'

[Sinister Intents]

The capitalist gave his reason for this. Sabotage is a weapon of the worker.

Indeed, but this was unwarranted, I try to make the business be good for the employees, and I try helping them out, I'm eventually turning the business into a worker's cooperative

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

I've heard adding sugar to concrete will fuck it up. Can the sugar be added to the concrete before it is mixed? Can it be added to wet, drying concrete? What sort of quantity sugar is necessary relative to concrete?

[Sinister Intents]

I've heard adding sugar to concrete will fuck it up. Can the sugar be added to the concrete before it is mixed? Can it be added to wet, drying concrete? What sort of quantity sugar is necessary relative to concrete?

I've never heard of this before :) I can't really answer this. You'd have to know how much to add per yard of wet cement. You could broadcast the sugar out and bull float it in as well

[Five Year Plan]

Why was he sabotaging your work

He must have been a Trotskyite wrecker.

[BIXX]

I've heard adding sugar to concrete will fuck it up. Can the sugar be added to the concrete before it is mixed? Can it be added to wet, drying concrete? What sort of quantity sugar is necessary relative to concrete?


I think I have a book that shows how to do this- I'll take a look.

[Sinister Intents]

He must have been a Trotskyite wrecker.

Lol what?

[Sinister Intents]

I think I have a book that shows how to do this- I'll take a look.

Please post here!

[Leftsolidarity]

This is an odd thread...

How much concrete do you need to put on someone's feet for them to reliably sink?

[Sinister Intents]

This is an odd thread...

How much concrete do you need to put on someone's feet for them to reliably sink?

Well, we don't do concrete boots anymore. We give them concrete suits so the sink and no parts ever float back up.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Is it possible to lock someone in a block of concrete with only a handful of parts exposed without it causing their death through expansion or some such?

[Sinister Intents]

Is it possible to lock someone in a block of concrete with only a handful of parts exposed without it causing their death through expansion or some such?

Well, encasing someone in concrete would kill them because of the mass of the concrete, it'll also suck the moisture out of you as it cures and it'll condense as it cures, squeezing the victim.
Cannibal Corpse - Encased In Concrete
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[BIXX]

Please post here!


The book didn't seem to say anything (I'll keep looking) but here is what I have found from some quick Internet abilities:

http://thevarsity.ca/2002/10/03/sugar-makes-quicksand-in-the-concrete-jungle/

It seems to me that it affects the cement, so it should work with both cement and concrete.

More news soon...

Edit: found a concrete forum. They have 8,908 members.

Can't find anything about sugar fucking up concrete on there.

[Zukunftsmusik]

I though this would be about how we need less abstract discussions.


cement and concrete.

what's the difference?

[BIXX]

what's the difference?


Concrete is paste (cement and water) with an aggregate (like gravel and sand).

[Sinister Intents]

Concrete is paste (cement and water) with an aggregate (like gravel and sand).

Exactly! Also as per sugar fucking up concrete: it probably has to do with how sugar will increase the acidity of the concrete. It also may do nothing, to test I'll rip open a back of concrete mix and add sugar and document my results. Also you can add additives to concrete like calcium which allows you to work with concrete at lower temperatures.

[BIXX]

Exactly! Also as per sugar fucking up concrete: it probably has to do with how sugar will increase the acidity of the concrete. It also may do nothing, to test I'll rip open a back of concrete mix and add sugar and document my results. Also you can add additives to concrete like calcium which allows you to work with concrete at lower temperatures.


Maybe you should add a pretty heavy amount of sugar for the experiment?

[Sinister Intents]

Maybe you should add a pretty heavy amount of sugar for the experiment?

I'll add a cup for one third a bag, and another third a bag will be like an eighth cup sugar. I can already tell what the sugar is gonna do, it'll just cause it to crumble away. I found this on yahoo answers:

Sugar interferes with the cement binding process in the concrete. Note that concrete and cement are not the same. Concrete is made by combining cement, water and a filler material called an “aggregate,” like gravel or sand. Most cement is made from limestone and clay. It reacts with water to form a hardening paste that binds the aggregate together to produce hard concrete. This hardening process is called hydration.

One theory suggests that when the concrete mixture contains sugar, the sugar molecules attach themselves to the hydrating cement and inhibit the chemical reactions involved in stiffening the material.

A different theory, called the “precipitation theory,” suggests that the addition of sugar increases the concentrations of calcium, aluminum and iron in concrete. The sugar molecules combine with these metals to form insoluble chemical complexes that coat the cement grains. Several key chemical processes that harden the concrete are then impeded. Hydration slows down the process and the concrete takes longer to set. For this reason, sugar is known as a retarder. Retarders increase the setting time of concrete.

All sugars do not retard cement hydration equally. Refined white sugar is one of the best retarders. Lactose, the sugar found in milk, is a moderate retarder. Trehalose, a sugar produced by various fungi, is non-retarding and does not affect setting time.

Different theories and chemical processes are used to explain retardation for each type of sugar, and one or more mechanisms may be operating in the concrete. No one theory can explain the behaviour of all sugars in concrete under all conditions.

[BIXX]

I'll add a cup for one third a bag, and another third a bag will be like an eighth cup sugar. I can already tell what the sugar is gonna do, it'll just cause it to crumble away. I found this on yahoo answers:


Hahaha they copied that form the thing I linked to :P

Anyway, sweet. Can't wait.

[Sinister Intents]

Hahaha they copied that form the thing I linked to :P

Anyway, sweet. Can't wait.

Lol, I didn't see your link. This'll be a little while