hi guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, were getting ready to leave for work but
before I do I want to answer a question that a lot of good a lot of you guys are asking
me the question is how much sand and cement do I put in a wheelbarrow to mix the cement
plaster now generally I said guys don't mix it in a wheelbarrow and the reason I say that
is because there are a lot of products that are same day materials or same day scratch and brown
one day whatever the whenever it says one day or same day it means a hydraulic you just add water
and boom they set you shouldn't mix those in a wheelbarrow because you don't have enough time
you should mix those in a bucket we just had a whole bunch of rain guys we really needed the
rain and we're trying to avoid it today get the job done but anyway it's about 7:00 in the morning
we're getting ready to hit the road just wanted to point out guys okay so you take a wheelbarrow
if you're going to mix you have to mix plaster cement plaster that doesn't set fast and these
are usually I'll use early highs but to have all kinds of brand anyway 94 pound bag let's say for
the sake of simplifying and everything you take a hundred pound sack you put it in the wheelbarrow
now you add three times as much sand so what do you have three two one so you have four hundred
pounds what are these wheelbarrows hold I mean you got we got a whole bunch of wheelbarrows
here I'll get on that in a minute they hold about four to six hundred pounds it depends
who the size of the wheelbarrow who's mixing and stuff like that usually as a rule say say I mix
I'll put a bag in and yeah I have done this for them I don't recommend it I'll put a bag in here
and 300 pounds of Sanders sometimes I've used two if you if you take a drill and try to mix
it here you're gonna get it all over yourself how do I know I've done it we had a job Jay
and I we're where we didn't have any buckets I thought unbelievable how do we forget those so
I put the cement and sand in here and there was a just happen to be a carport I was standing up
top and I was mixed in this way so it didn't get all over me but anyway I recommend always
mix in a bucket guys while I'm on the subject of mixing if you're going to mix it in a wheelbarrow
is better use a hoe a hole will have two holes in it usually and you pull it back one way pull
it back the other it takes like eight minutes to mix it that way where with a drill it's faster
but you can compromise material especially if you use in same day those those you can't over
mix so never try to mix it in here while I'm on wheelbarrows guys a lot of you call saying
Kirkwood wheelbarrows do you recommend well if you're a homeowner get a plastic one all
urethane one they're light they're easy like say my brother Lou he mixes sometimes or he'll
he's a heavy dude what's that mean he's like 250 oh he takes a shovel say for a wheelbarrow like
this he'll take a shovel and within a month he'll tear the sides because the shovel with the stand
acts as sandpaper so he'll just go through those plastic ones before your homeowner get a plastic
one this particular these style wheelbarrows these we have them they're narrow and they
hold a lot other they're pretty solid ones they're serious wheelbarrows but they go through staging
scalpel we do a lot of work with scaffolding so we got this will won't fit through scaffolding
and that one won't fit through scaffolding so we have to take one of the blue ones here and to go
through the scaffolding that's why we have these guys here no other tip guys is if you're going to
get a wheelbarrow a lot of people say where's a good place to buy it well and buy a wheelbarrow
almost any place but come on this side for a sec yeah I want to I want to show this it looks like
it got a skid plate here you guys want to see a serious wheelbarrow this is like a motocross
bike it's got a skid plate it's got solid steel in there and it's braced this is one of my favorite
wheelbarrows here I'll show you why you may not want to stand right there let's say we've had
a lot of rain guys and guess what we need the rain so I'm gonna make a mess here for a second
okay now this will Barrow here check this out we did a job two weeks ago and I told you hey
grab the serious wheelbarrow and he says all I don't want to use that what it's kind of heavy
you know I get it man see all these nails it was a commercial job we had to wear hard hats and all
that jazz but always get will burrows with a tire that's solid this is one day and I knew this was
gonna happen so I said grab this one because of too many nails all over the place as a rule
we work outside and we don't get this much but as far as getting wheelbarrows guys if you're a
homeowner get a plastic one you're not gonna wear it out like we do if you guys are contractor you
might as well buy one really good one go online and hit construction wheelbarrows you'll find
places to get it or go to Home Depot Lowe's or any of the other hardware stores let's say I'll
point out guy says I know everybody knows this but some of you younger fellows who watch what
we do and I get a lot of young guys - hey I just started with a company that watch your videos and
people say well how'd you get so good watch Kirk's videos anyway take your cement put it on the wheel
put it on the wheel don't put it all back here if you put it back here now you've got to lift
it with strength it beat up your spine man I've done it for you know years and years they're like
the bags are over the wheel now you lift this I mean you're lifting it you can hold it with
two fingers but if the bags are right here saying or say your cement it's right here man you've got
a strain and it compresses your spine and at the end of the day if you're 20 to 30 it won't matter
but if you're 40 and 50 it will matter the end of the day your spine will be killing you so me
when I was hard carrying a lot thirty years ago I still hot carry now I get tired of plastering
but you get your concrete or cement plaster you put it in here what I generally do is I push it
all towards the front of the wheel if I have 400 pounds in here I'll push it toward the front that
way when I lift the wheels holding the weight not my spine being squished anyway guys I thought I'd
point out this was really about how to mix in a wheelbarrow because so many folks asking me
guys if you got a bucket mix in the bucket it's a lot easier and then you don't have to guess about
what cement can be mixed in there and which ones can't because a lot of same-day materials are on
the market now it blows my mind to see how many same-day materials are out there so you can't over
mix those guys three to five minutes in a bucket if you tried here you're gonna lose it you're
gonna compromise that that same-day material so mix in a bucket if you can anyway muga my name
is Kirk Jason on the camera I'm getting ready to hit the road we thank you for watching him I'll
see you guys on the next one once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all your
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