Cement mixer cleanout

[Minerat]

Nobody would allow some idiot to throw a bag or three of sugar into a truck of concrete

Well if it means that or losing a $40,000 drum on a large ready-mix truck the owner of the $500,000 truck might be that idiot.

[Winger Ed.]

Well if it means that or losing a $40,000 drum on a large ready-mix truck the owner of the $500,000 truck might be that idiot.

A friend of a friend had a buddy that got a job driving a concrete truck one summer.
They told him about the sugar thing, and kept it in the batch plant shack.
But he never put any in his truck.

One day, he ran out of fuel on his way back to dump about 1/4 of a drum that was left over in the pit they had, and the concrete set up.
When he got in, he told the boss what happened and asked, "I guess I'm fired, right"?

The boss told him 'Oh no, it happens, no big deal, we even keep the hammers and long chisels to deal with it'.

After spending the rest of the day busting it all out and tossing it through the little scuttle hole, he finally came in and put away the tools.
Then the boss said, "Now you're fired".

[DDriller]

We used cement on drilling rigs to keep surface equipment from being screwed up with cement. It was dumped in the cement when we got the cement returning from cementing casing. Still messy but easier than hammers, picks, and chisels.