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The day a 4-inch slab curl on a driveway in Austin cost me 9 hours of grinding
We poured a big residential driveway off Burnet Road last Tuesday, and by noon the edges had curled so bad the finisher who troweled the perimeter admitted he'd left the bull float too long in the sun, so I spent the whole afternoon with a walk-behind grinder fixing that mess, and has anyone else had a crew member's simple mistake turn a half-day pour into a full-day nightmare?
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davis.ruby21d ago
Nine hours on a grinder is brutal, I feel for you.
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grace_gonzalez4621d ago
The "brutal" part is about right, but nine hours isn't quite the number here. @davis.ruby I think that shift was more like eleven with the cleanup and tool changes. The grinder itself ran for nine, sure, but nobody counts the setup time. That's the part that really wears you down, standing around waiting for the metal to cool.
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