I spent many years installing playground equipment. When young and strong, I'd mix by hand. Later on, a cement mixer was toted around. Then came Quickcrete, you poured it in the hole and just added water. Life became easier.
Qickrete Mixing Question - Tractor Bucket
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Captain Dirty
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^2. In high school I had a summer job tending hod for a mason. Cleaning cement from tools, tub, or whatever requires rubbing, be it hand, brush, or rag. Just spraying water leaves a residue that becomes permanent.
3Ts
Elite Member
^3 I used my tractor bucket for concrete and didn't get it all cleaned off right away. 15 years later, there is still concrete on it.
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Old Red
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Just finished my job. TEN 80 lb bags (800 pounds) of Quickrete mixed up in the little BX bucket. Piece of cake. As soon as I finished the pour I drove over to my woods and dumped a tiny bit of leftover concrete out and drug the hose over, rinsed and not a singe grain of concrete in the bucket. Washes off super easy. No biggie at all, I highly recommend it.
Attached is a photo of the bucket sitting in my garage after I was finished. No evidence of 800 pounds of concrete being mixed in that bucket an hour earlier.
Attached is a photo of the bucket sitting in my garage after I was finished. No evidence of 800 pounds of concrete being mixed in that bucket an hour earlier.
wagne223
Platinum Member
This is my method for anything being set in the ground. Just mix it in the hole, cover it with dirt and move on.
Of course when it comes to mortar or concrete for a pad, I use a more refined method.
wagne223
Platinum Member
Not even a shovel scratch in that bucket!
Almost makes me feel bad for loading a pile of busted up concrete with mine today!
Ha ha....almost!
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Old Red
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I considered that. There was water in the hole already. But I am putting up a giant very expensive NCAA regulation sized basketball goal up for my boy. I doubt he'll ever put much hurt on the goal, but you never know what friends he might have over. So I pumped the water out of the hole, mixed in my bucket. Hole is over 4 feet deep and 16 inches diameter and last foot at the bottom was 20 inches diameter at the bottom. Once I was 3/4 way up I put in 4 pieces of rebar, then covered those, smoothed and placed the anchor system in. This foundation is a beast...but for fence posts and what not I'm just mixing in the hole.