Load of dirt: $20.
Truck and diesel to get it to you: $1200
After seeing the news piece on guys using two cars to steal a haybail I think in australia it makes me realize just how much worse this is than the depression. I mean people would steal food, heck even eggs, and maybe even live chickens. But straw?! Things are sooooo trumped.
How about a truck load of kitkats?
I love the use of “trump” as a verb here. Totally stealing that.
As a frequent player of euchre… I hate that his name has tarnished the game I love.
Heck, even death is hella expensive.
I once saw a yard sign near a crematorium that said, “Free Dirt.”
Sand of various types are running out around the world, and it can be quite the expensive challenge to get the right type for your particular project, many times involving trying to preserve land from water erosion.
Maybe industry is working to create artificial sand grades for current and future projects, I’m not sure…
Thats pretty shocking to my untrained ass. I always assumed they did mass-produced sand, grinding up their own stones and stuff.
River sand is the right amount of jaggedness to where it can pour and settle into the right density in cement to have the right strength in the finished concrete. Ocean/beach sand works, too, but needs to be rinsed with fresh water, and is usually pretty valuable where it is (for beach resorts and what not).
They’re testing for how to use different types of sand (desert sand, manufactured sand, recycled sand) and testing the pouring characteristics and resulting concrete strength, so that they can make reasonable decisions on when it’s worth using substitutes.
Civil engineering really is just the study of concrete isn’t it
No shade, just amazed I’m always nearing more about concrete lol
Yeah, one of the issues I’ve read about happening for concrete failures was that some construction crews are under enormous pressure to salvage concrete that had been mixed too early, or delayed in pouring, or whatever, and where the concrete pouring characteristics cause issues (or crews add unauthorized water or things to slow down curing and then alter the characteristics of the poured concrete without the engineers’ awareness).
It’s wildly counterintuitive to those of us who don’t work in the space.
