When saw cutting concrete, proper blade selection is crucial for quality cuts; continuous blades designed for green concrete provide cleaner cuts with less chipping compared to blades designed for hardened concrete, and operators should face uphill when cutting to maintain control and safety.
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Added:Hey guys. Um I'm just heading back down to to the jetty there um to um do some saw cuts and strip the boxing. Pretty sore. It's uh what is this? 20 7. I'm only just leaving home. Just loaded up saw and some hoses. Hope we got enough hoses to run around to. There's a couple of spots where we can put the hoses, but um like like taps, I suppose, to plug the hose in, but just hope we got enough length of hose. Um yeah, put them cuts in and strip the boxing and I'll probably knock off. I'm hoping to knock off by lunch. I'm just hoping the concrete's hard enough to cut. That's my only concern. But anyway, cuz otherwise I do it tomorrow, but tomorrow is Saturday and I've got a wedding to go to. So, um anyway, we should be right.
And I've got to get out of there by 2:00 today cuz I got to go to appointment. So anyway, I'll see you guys later when I get there and we'll just go from there.
Oh, it looks good.
>> It looks good, doesn't it?
>> Yeah, >> it's drying out.
Someone's going to just have to clean the brick work, but that that looks good.
They just done like a Yeah, I suppose there some sort of co figure of eight.
That's what I'd always call this stuff.
Figure of eight.
I think they went over my work cuz it was it wasn't good.
But >> [snorts] >> um anyway, it's all right.
I see like plate. We used to call it a plate finish and in Tazzy. Look at this.
This pipe's leaking.
But um I haven't done it for years. So I was out of touch with it.
Um got that there. So something's happened here where it's leaked.
It's actually leaked out of the back of this here somehow. I don't know how that's, you know, leaking. But anyway, I am glad to just see this done though.
Looks good though. D I'm going to be interested to see how the water falls.
Hope the water does fall all the way, which you see that's a bit of a swale there.
It's a shame about that pump.
Apparently, it was only a $3 part that broke down. So, it was a $3 part that broke.
And um yeah, that was unlucky.
So, anyway, um he said he got it fixed.
The um the first pump guy, he's going to cover the second bill. So, he's going to cover Felto's bill and that, but we said we're going to use him. We're going to use them guys, the first guys for the rest of the job because he come through good. You know, he wasn't a he wasn't a um you know, he didn't he didn't rip off and he you know, it was just an accident what happened. So, anyway, this all looks good anyway. Um and yeah, I'm going to strip the formwork and just go from there.
These are going to be fun to get out and not.
So, I'm just me and Hilo had to just put some stuff in there.
I'm not going to do any saw cuts today.
Oh, man.
So, I'm not going to do any saw cuts today at all. I've tried to do I've tried to do a couple, but I think it's better if we leave them. Everything's stripped. I've just been on the excavator. I let Eli said to him, he can he can drive the excavator around here.
So, I just want to leave the excavator in here for the weekend. Just going to leave here, but I was going to cut that cut in. That's just a obviously textured mark, but it's just too green.
So, um, only ones I've done I've literally only cut is just this little grain one here cuz I thought, "Oh, that crack." This is already like it. See where with one of the guys boxed up?
That wasn't me. So, um, yeah, just so everyone knows, that wasn't my formwork right there. But, I just put that little one there. So, I think the only thing I'll show is I don't really know where to put any cuts. So, I'm just going to maybe leave just do one there where that comes into the bigger thing. These I'm obviously not going to put any cuts in.
I don't really see any point cuz they're just solid sort of slabs. I split that that that half down there in the middle.
So, there's one in the middle there.
Probably should have went where the expansion joint was in the brick work, but but anyway, it's would have looked probably nicer, but that's halfway to there. It would have looked better there actually. One on that corner there, one there. Put one here. I didn't bother splitting one there. I did it there though for the drain. One in the middle there. And then I've only just done one here. I thought I thought that would be better. Just one there. So anyway, I'm um going to um just try to start stripping that box in. I'll show you the thing if I get if I get the faces off them steps.
I'm just going to Yeah.
You got to eat >> chicken man sandwiches, bro.
>> Oh, they're the they're the >> Don't hit anything.
Bang. I can imagine that. I just wouldn't found out the camera's not pointing the right direction. should be now. But if you didn't see the concrete yesterday properly, this is the concrete that we did. I don't know. Hopefully, you can see that now. Um, yeah, you go get something, Eli.
Make sure you don't forget your boots either.
>> I won't.
>> Okay, cool. No worries. Um, and yeah, I suppose I'll show you up here. you would have probably seen it, but I'm sorry if the camera hasn't been pointing the right way. Um, you know, I'm not going to go all out and buy all these expensive tools and stuff just to um not tools, sorry, expensive um, you know, things, GoPros and stuff. Why is that wet there?
I really don't get where that moisture's coming from. Like, look at that. It's all wet here.
Anyway, wet. I know stuff's coming out of these pipes. You see it there?
Anyway, it's not bad. But yeah, this if you obviously seen it, but you probably didn't get a good view. So, I'm just showing you another view. All the concrete.
You can see that. All right. There's down there. I'm just going to strip a bit of this boxing now. I am very glad that this is done. So, it is good that it's all done. Just everything, brick work and stuff needs a real good clean now. Going to just start stripping a little bit of this. I'll work for another hour and then then I'm dipping all snapped.
It's good.
Don't tell me that's all stuck there.
Oh, I had to say Look good. Looks good though.
Face looks mick.
All right, we're just working together stripping all this this stuff out the back. Actually looks pretty neat. I suppose looks pretty good for considering, you know, we couldn't strip that form ply and stuff out yesterday.
So, I'll show you once more. This what it looks like. steps.
>> But yeah, see [music and singing] edges are stripped. Don't know where this water's coming from there. But here's this good.
[music] >> Thanks, Sean.
They look good. Look at that.
I got it done.
>> Obviously can we can run the grinder down or just gravel.
>> Um same as this like honestly people aren't even going to actually come out today to be honest.
>> You know people aren't really going to come out up here. These boys are just getting that off and then yeah, it's nearly 1:00, so I'm heading off.
>> But that looks good. Don't scrap all that. Just leave it there cuz I don't know what Jace wants might want to do with it.
>> All right. No worries. Well, >> I'll see you on Monday then.
>> I'll see you Monday, SM. But um yeah, that looks actually pretty sick. That looks good. You know, as I said, I didn't really do much in here. Yeah, I only helped spray a few of them pads and then the guys come through and finished it all. But um yeah, it all went well.
Everyone worked in together. So that was good. I'm just going to leave the saw cuts till Monday. Honestly, I wouldn't want to leave them more than really 2 days, 3 days max. Anyway, um yeah, it should be fine. We're in winter. This is all in under shade, so it's very very green still. Hence why I got Crocs on.
But um yeah, I'm thankful for Eli's help and Jean's help. They come in and done that and um yeah, and then put some cuts along this path and it'll be sweet. Like um yeah, looks he keep heaps better with all that concrete. So much better. But anyway, I will see you guys back here Monday and we're going to start doing a bit more prep work. So, thanks guys.
All right. Um, [clears throat] I'm just back at a job back here. It looks like it's going to rain, though.
So, I don't know what's going to happen.
Looks like it's going to rain today. So, yeah.
>> [music] >> What do you got if you guys on in YouTube there? What are you guys using to um saw cut with? What do you find best? It doesn't want to chip. Are you using these continuous blades or um or using something, you know, different?
be interesting to know what everyone's using because these blades right now, these ones, these ox ones, they're like um you know, they're like um $350 a pop, so they get pretty expensive.
But um I don't know if there's anything cheaper that's maybe around, you know, around the, you know, 150 for a blade would be ideal or$1 $100 a blade. I know you can buy the demo blades like that. $100 a blade. But but um yeah, it's hard to It's hard to um Yeah, it' be good to find something that's cheaper cuz I know if you cut I'm pretty sure if you cut re like harder concrete with these blades, they um the blade doesn't last as long cuz it's not designed for that. It's designed for green concrete. Anyway, I'll use that this old one first. See how we go and um yeah, go from there. All right, I'm just going to remark this.
I marked them the other day and then they kind of faded, I suppose.
Nothing worse than when you actually can't even see the texture line if you don't have if you don't have like a straight edge. It's like wow.
Rainy guy.
All right. So, um I'm just going home now to get the truck and and that Eli's just washing all that concrete off for me.
>> All right. I'm just in the truck. off the wall.
>> Um, I'm just heading back to >> the job.
>> I don't know if any of you guys like Christian hip hop.
I know everyone knows Cray, but I've been listening to this guy Caleb Gordon. He's awesome. He's awesome. Listen to the Christian hip-hop.
>> And um yeah, he's good. I like Craig, like Alex Jean and all them kind of guys. But this guy, I found him and he's he's awesome.
Listen to this guy.
All right, the cuts are all these cuts are done.
So, I think all the water gets away except there's just that step where I don't know what's happened there.
It's not bad.
It's that that's what's happened. It's lower there. Not by much, but you can see it. I reckon that what happens is Yeah, you can see it's a couple mil lower there. And there's not a hectic amount of fall.
just there. You literally can see it.
It's probably I think I screeded that. I don't know. I'll tell you when I watch the play video playback, but it's probably my fault for screing that.
So anyway, look, I think it'll be okay.
You know, there's a couple little ones down in there. It'll dry out. You know, at least it's concrete.
So anyway, all right.
All this is good though. All the water seems to get away from here. So we're we're starting here. So So you kind of want to just do that, right, Eli?
Um I don't know what's going to be an easier side. Which way would you rather cut? Do you have a preferred way of >> Yeah, facing uphill.
>> So, you'd rather go uphill, eh?
>> But I'm I'm going to be coming down, but I want to be facing uphill. I don't want to be facing downhill so that I can fall onto it.
>> Wait, what do you mean?
>> So, I want to be cutting like this.
>> You can't cut backwards. No, no, no.
That's a no. No.
>> You have to get You have to go the way the saw's going. Yeah. So, you'll have to probably cut.
>> So, I'm going to have to cut downhill.
>> Yeah, you'll be fine. So, but which side of the board would you ra would you feel more comfortable?
>> Yeah, this side.
>> So, you'd feel more comfortable going like this? Hey, >> cuz if it was me, I'd be like this side.
So, I can go like that and use that as a guide.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> You go like that.
>> I'll probably do that side.
>> Do that.
[music] >> All right. I'm taking the machine around there now.
Heat.
Heat.
What I'm doing, I'm just plug this 7 mil in.
Go. Go. Reverse it.
>> Yep.
come.
>> I don't know if you can see up here, but man, it's beautiful looking out at that water out there. Look at that. This is only I'm only 10 20 seconds away from the job, but out there there's some water. Nice up here. I'd live up here.
This is looking down on the race course down down this way down in the race course and um yeah sits situated I suppose pretty high up here but uh yeah it's a nice spot.
It's annoying all that.
All right, that load's nearly That's another load. Um, I don't want the sand.
So, it's all cut sand and stuff. It looks good. It's looks like this. Looks good. See, this is the difference with a a bad cut. But you can see where it's starting to chip the edges. And that was that was from that blade spinning.
That one's okay. That was used that cut there was used with the Huffana blade.
But guess what I did? I thought that was a text line and I didn't realize that was a text line. This was just a broom mark like a dag that was on the thing and I end up thinking it was a text line. So I cut it thinking that it was the cut. But anyway, it's all right. And then this one was the actual mark, like the span cuz they're like three and a half meter spans. But anyway, see that's one that's a bad one because it was done with the the other blade where I think the rest Well, you can see these ones up here, right?
That one's fine. It's not too bad. It's got tiny little bit of chipping, but nothing terrible.
These ones here just put this inside actually all the I'll show you is a puddle bad Jean's not here today. Sick. Apparently all these ones are okay here because you can see these were done with the actual ox blade with the brand new ox blade. So that one and this one. See, they're a thinner a thinner cut, too. It's what I like.
Oh man, just a mess.
Look at that. It's all just >> All right. Eli vlog.
>> Eli vlog. Here we go.
Can >> I Hello.
Is it Is it recording?
Hey, mate.
Hello, Tom. I have a red a red thing flashing.
>> Yeah, there's Tom. There's Eli. We're up on the digger here.
Let's get into our mush, shall we?
Cool.
Tom, you should hire me as your digger.
Hell yeah.
All right, let's keep working, shall we?
Vlog.
Can you see it? Right, Kazzy.
There's the first one.
Ah, come on. You go. Tom's going to watch this footage and be like Oh, I see. It's because there's rock.
Oh, Tom, I'm going to crash out.
I found an ammo. It's right here.
All right, let's put the head.
Okay, Tom's probably going to get mad at me for this, but I can't think of another way to do it.
Hooray.
Oh, car camera. If you could see my face. So, I almost thought I was going to hit that.
Oh [ __ ] Who put that there?
>> Say hello to the camera, Tom.
[laughter]
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