interesting film, but I have to feel for those guys, that was back braking work, and no masks for those working with the cement dust everywhere, wonder how long they lived. I have memories of driving on those concrete roads, with the expansion cracks, very noisy, we have asphalt roads here and they're quieter, but not as strong, they get holes!
My grandfather did that with the army core of engineers. Helped with the angeles crest highway and some of the other so-cal mountain roads (yes we have mountains here, and they are bigger than yours.) Amazing what they had to do just to build a 1/4 mile of road.
The video brings back memories of driving with my folks in a 56 Dodge hitting those expansion joints on a concrete highway doing 45. Kathump, kathump kathump. I feel sorry for the guy on the mixer breathing in all that dust.
I can't believe they just shucked a piece of mesh on the pour! For that matter, where's the rock base?? Guess that will work in SoCal, not anywhere there's freezing.
dont feel sorry for him, hes dead! at least he proberbly is from breathing all that crap. concrete is more dangerous than most realise. cool movie, great to look back at how things were done.
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