PREPARING AND LAYING A CONCRETE FLOOR IN OUR NEW SHED

[@vincentwalker7134]

The magic screed and easy float. Concreting has changed a lot over the years. Gone have the days of the 6x2 with handles nailed on it..👍

[@mididash]

Now that was awesome 👍🏻 cheers George , Really enjoyed that , thank you

[@trevorjarvis3021]

Brilliant vid George, it’s always good watching your farm progression. You certainly laid a fair amount of concrete yourself back in the JWB days, and it wasn’t pre mixed stuff either!! Your new sheds look real tidy! 👍

[@christinegibbins6105]

Memories of laying the piggery yards back in the early 1970s with a MF135 and a MF concrete mixer., which are still used today for small jobs. Thanks and take care.

[@DJC995]

Hi George Nice Job the ground workers all new what they are doing a pleasure watching professional's at work Thanks

[@mattfisher7432]

Wow! Some serious play in that digger bucket. Lovely job even so.

[@billupstateny9151]

Was noticeable

[@mattfisher7432]

@@billupstateny9151 you know what. I heard it before I saw it. Very familiar sound.

[@DonegalTDI]

Good work to get that done, despite the weather. I went through all that last October, put up a new machinery shed 60' x 30' to get most of my kit in. Power floated the floor to get super smooth surface. Worth the effort!

[@tonymckeage1028]

Good Morning from New Zealand, Great George Saunders Video thanks for sharing have a wonderful week

[@kennethgreen2829]

Thats a job well done George, and like you I love laying concrete. So satisfiling when is done right.

[@sandymcghee3328]

Great video George nice job with the concrete keep them coming stay safe 👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧👌👌🚜🚜👩‍🌾👩‍🌾☝️☝️

[@gmartin8240]

Well done George , great bit of work with the teleporter doing the concrete 👍

[@michaelsinn2992]

Nice to see professional concrete ops working tidy job quick and no waste love the vid.

[@michaellorio9774]

re bonjour George merci et toujours impatient de voir une vidéo , la c est du beau travail j aurais pu venir avec ma pelle réglé le fond de forme lol bon courage a toi pour la suite 😍👍👍👍

[@jonlowe8727]

I wouldn't worry about the depth of hardcore. What they were digging out was stone hard. It's part of my job. Great content as always mate

[@bete1588]

Past Script . In germany take we one layer of steel mats with 6mm steel wires . and a foil under the concrete hold it longer and better wet ! Than is more time to planned the concrete ! Best greetings !

[@casto-]

Hats off to the wagon driver for getting the wagon in the barn 👍. Last floor we did, the wagon parked at one end and we borrowed it across... and he wouldn’t wet it up 😭🤦‍♂️

[@jonlowe8727]

I would have told him to take it away

[@casto-]

@@jonlowe8727 yeah ideally we would of but time was against us🤦‍♂️

[@JonDingle]

Always good to see concreting videos. I have shares in a concrete company and find the stuff very interesting and seeing it installed. Complicated stuff is concrete, and anyone that thinks just add more water is basically weakening the product, whether it be concrete or basic mortar. Top video George, you earned a Creme Egg!

[@grahamwilliams5041]

yes i used to drive concrete lorry they all ways wanted more water i just used to put it on the ticket and get them to signe for it then your covered hopefully

[@JonDingle]

@@grahamwilliams5041 That's the best way another way is to get a VOC signed if the customer changes the job or specification.

[@alex5983]

Brilliant video George, thank you!

[@JDMz]

Thanks for the upload george👍🇬🇧

[@jimmybroom]

Great video George. A very good job done but a bunch of hard working lads.

[@thomassteadman6781]

great video George new concrete floor looks good also you got best job carting the concrete to the shed

[@jsw-farmer4140]

Fantastic vid mate. Great to see expansion on your farm

[@rodneydelday625]

A lot easier than when you did the workshop floor with the legend I could feel your pain on that job Nice floor space and a Job well done

[@anthonysambrook7624]

Great video George 👍👌🏻🐾🚜🐄

[@upthereds4939]

Great job George thats a fine shed

[@kenrobinson9989]

Nice video again George, keep them coming when you can

[@yourskipsskiphire159]

That bloke in the loafer is clearly the boss

[@utilitarian]

Really interesting video George. Thanks for sharing this!

[@philipbutler9404]

Like that video George a lot of work gone into laying the floor well done to all

[@laytonphillips6667]

Great video george and a nice looking job, that combine looks a bit sorry sat there, can you film a cold start on her and getting her ready for this year please? Typical British weather now it won't stop raining just as you start concreting.

[@patkelly7999]

Great job Men, Yes you can never have too many bodies at concrete George:):)

[@theghostofcornpop4175]

Brilliant George , great seeing u going from strength to strength , would use ever put up a silage pit or stick with the bales ?

[@Agriculturespotter]

Really interesting video George

[@stevehucker7170]

Another great video George thanks for sharing good to see a new shed for yourselves,you could fit a fast trac in there just saying? Cheers

[@markrandall1969]

I think that's a job I am going to have to tackle in the next 12 months. I have never seen metal shuttering before

[@bete1588]

Hello .i didnt know .why you take so many ground away and take so many rubble recycling into there ? Many work and Money . The hall construction company in germany said always at first a small foundation all around the shed mostly 30 inches deep . Than the concrete floor and than installed they the hall . We take only the grass layer away only 4 inches . Than a little bit sand on the uneven ground . than level in with a 16 feet steel beam which hangs on 2 changes on a little tractor to planning the floor . Than embrassed we foil from silage . Nice greetings from Bert from north west germany !

[@andyellis307]

They made that look easy gone are the days length of 3x2 4 pieces of wood for makeshift handles the good old days

[@ianhaggart1438]

Cracking shed I'm jealous 😁😉. You'll fit a tw15 in there no bother 😜. Stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👌 👍

[@Chieftain7530]

Love a good bit of concrete, always something in the yard that could do with a better floor but cost often isn't justified.

[@norman32949]

Good one George , that little 360 digger looks a good honest machine but could do with some new pins n bushes all round. 👍

[@thecrazymanfromireland]

Fantastic job GS 👍👍👍

[@mtl-ss1538]

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[@colincampbell3679]

Good Work George and everyone. I bet you were really wishing to have a go on the small JCB mini digger? I was thinking though, that when the cement truck was reversing in and out onto the newly smoothed down hardcore. It seemed a s shame as it was crewing up the flattened hardcore. Maybe it been better to have laid the hardcore a bit at a time letting the cement mixer truck drive on the bare ground then move back such that the hardcore was done after the truck been on the ground so not to crew up the hardcore? Makes me wonder if a full sized JCB Back Hoe digger would have dig up and leveled the base quicker than the mini one! Still great work all. Something I found out about concrete, it in fact takes 120 years for the chemical part of it to go fully set. even though it's state of setting from liquid to solid is in a couple of days.

[@malte2106]

Love these vids, keep up the good work! Greetings from Sweden

[@mrvanahead]

Satisfying to see this build. But a question, why no netting in the concrete? In our latest build we have a concrete floor of 20cm thick with a 8mm reinforcing net in it. Is this not common in the UK? it gives the concrete more flex/strength they say here in the netherlands.

[@jonlowe8727]

Yeah its common here in the UK as well. This hasn't been designed by an engineer however. If it cracks in a cow barn it's no great drama

[@bobpaterson1845]

Good video George 👍 can u just imagine havin to tamp that amount o concrete with a guy on each end o a 12 foot plank 🙄😳😥😥😂👍

[@Tommymellett]

good video george it will look amazing when its finished

[@philgardener7018]

Great video. On the farm I lived on when I was young they made the concrete too smooth so the cows kept slipping and doing the splits. eventually they had to get a machine in to roughen the concrete

[@georgedoorley5628]

was thinking that also ...........we always leave a rough surface on floors to keep man and beast from slipping ..............

[@jackhume4532]

Hi George, and yes I have also laid concrete during my time on farm and I agree with you that it is a most satisfying job that I have done, oh and yes I have seen both of those tourqing point videos that you have mentioned and found them to be very interesting too and I will look forward to seeing your next video and until then TaRa for a bit.

[@GeorgeSaunders]

Cheers Jack 👍👍

[@gingerninja7187]

Big area for no reinforcement mesh ,and no expansion joints 🤞🏽

[@grahamwilliams5041]

yes i noticed that its not a problem realy they can allways run down it with steel saw between the bays well noticed though

[@kevinwillis9126]

Excellent vid George as always.. Take care sir..

[@Andy-From-England]

Great video he looks happy on the vibro compaction machine lol

[@bobcrawford2105]

Nice job but bet the farm cat walks across it before it’s set lol

[@charleshart6992]

Excellent result

[@duncanmardell6688]

great video george top job !!!!!!!!

[@grahamwilliams5041]

think iwud put bit re bar in as well but other than that very nice job well done

[@thomasbasham7165]

Nice looking shed but no reinforcing mesh? Did the concrete have fiber mesh or similar mixed in?

[@georgedoorley5628]

40 neuton mix would be plenty strong ............ seen 15 neuton put down over 40 years ago and still ok today ..........

[@ginggur17]

Soooo satisfying.

[@puma160cvx8]

Proper job can’t beat a concrete floor.

[@ozzie1989landy]

Thanks for sharing!

[@matthewbrittain2919]

That man can work a digger but treat him to some new pins😂👍

[@billupstateny9151]

Don't neglect the bushings

[@antonyfarming]

Great video 👍 was it fibre concrete? If not shouldn't you have put steel in it! Was there any video of the barn being built?

[@georgedoorley5628]

if the foundation is good under the concrete he should be ok without any rebar ..........

[@jefftheaussie2225]

George, The floor looks good, you forgot the reo though. Jeff

[@craigstacey7694]

great to see lee and phil love those boys

[@craigstacey7694]

its a shame they couldn't convince you to use our concrete

[@kevinpope9309]

Nice video what is the most concrete you have done in a day. The most I have done in a day was 24 lorry loads it was had work and it was a good day

[@Modlendingen]

Nice shed! :)

[@finbarrmurphy8053]

Nice work. Good to see you use recycled concrete. How deep was the stone and concrete ? Thanks for the videos.👍

[@jijordan5417]

Great vid

[@trams66]

That would make a great Matador workshop!! Don’t tell mucker 🤔😂

[@tommyteesdale1854]

I was just thinking the same thing

[@cibie01]

Worth the expense in the long run, some weight on that rear axle of the old Scan'y.

[@langer4602]

Great job mate! But no reinforced mesh?

[@seberous]

What oil were you spraying on the shuttering George? I guess most types would do the job.

[@georgedoorley5628]

you can get special oil for the job .........have used waste oil in the past , even oil from a chipper thinned out with some diesel .................

[@seberous]

@@georgedoorley5628 ah ideal, might have a go with something like that. Ours never wants to come free after pouring 😬

[@johngilbert5430]

Cracking job they've done, obviously not the first floor they've laid.

[@farmingforme5371]

Do you farm near Peterborough?

[@wolfe1970]

Everyones getting new sheds lol

[@tomreid8696]

1000th like!

[@SB-dv8ih]

Hi George Can you please tell me what slump that concrete was ? Thanks very much

[@JonDingle]

@@donaldtriumph1682 It looks more to me, around or just over 100. The super plasticizer in the mix would make it creep quite a way when the cone is lifted off the gauge. But l could be wrong.

[@JonDingle]

@@donaldtriumph1682 That depends on the price. I was quoted a price of £1.00per litre based on a delivery of 1,000litres of liquid PCE two years ago by major a supplier of liquid PCE so not exactly hugely expensive given the amount of slump it can give. And concrete companies will buy more than a 1,000 litres in during the course of a year so no doubt get it even cheaper. My estimate of 100mm or slightly is between 25-50% more than yours, so may not mean a huge increase in costs? As you may or may not know? PCE's are also water reducing agents this makes the concrete stronger and of better quality. Adding too much water to keep costs down doesn't work. It makes the concrete weaker and therefore at risk of failure which would result in doing the job again and l can assure you, no farmer in the world would want to replace a concrete floor again.

[@farminginkent.1004]

Chameau wellies for concrete work no no no no no, sacrilege .😔

[@andrewwadey7153]

Where abouts is your farm

[@memyselfandifarmer]

wire?

[@TWJW]

Any reason you didn’t put rebar under the concrete floor ?

[@billupstateny9151]

Why rebar, not a structural slab .❓ Does not require tensile strength, only compressive.

[@upthereds4939]

its probably fibre reinforced concrete

[@billupstateny9151]

@@upthereds4939 If the slump is excessive then fibre reinforcement is simply wasted money.

[@starsailorer]

@@billupstateny9151 so where the concrete wagons sinking in the formation will not induce tensile movement into the slab? Yeah it will compress itself to dust!

[@billupstateny9151]

@@starsailorer The slab will NOT induce the concentrated load of the truck wheel. No tensile strength required. You likely practice in russia where the stair riser heights vary by more than 2 inches in the same run. "Concrete Wagons" became extinct w/ fred flintstone. Dazzle elsewhere w/ your limited experience, this is a farm channel where practical application is functional.

[@billupstateny9151]

More slump than necessary, increases workability, but @ the price of more shrinkage. Wire mesh is overrated, does not prevent cracking, only reduces seperation.

[@upthereds4939]

it could be fibre reinforced concrete so no need for mesh

[@starsailorer]

Over rated?? Haha...cracking is removed if the correct inducement bars are installed...in this case...zero...be cracked to feck in no time, then water and frost will get under it. No poker either so full or air. No dowel bars for joints...poor do unfortunately for Georgy boy

[@upthereds4939]

@@starsailorer im no expert but if its fibre reinforced he doesn’t need mesh and doesn’t the power screed remove air? Who pokes floors ,Thats for shuttering walls

[@billupstateny9151]

@@starsailorer Another wanna be EXPERT. When your name is attached to something that actually matters, be sure to report back

[@starsailorer]

@@billupstateny9151 im actually a civil engineer and deal with concrete daily, so try again pal.

[@paddy294]

First

[@iharding4161]

who gives a toss lol

[@JDMz]

@@iharding4161 obviously you do for commenting. Lol

[@robertdaly9036]

You didn't need any reinforcing steel in the concrete. Very satisfying watching videos like this especially when you're not humping it. Nice video as always.... 👍👍