hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk giordano plastering today I'm going to show you guys how
to mix stucco in a Towable stucco machine they make these a wide variety essex,
white man and ten other different variety I'll show you what I used to do when I was Union well
actually I'll go way back 1979 1980 when I was working for Sam Hoff the Hoff brothers lathers
plasters all excellent guys I'll show you we used to use a barrel and generally you start to mix it
and right now I have it on its lowest setting because I want you guys to be able to hear what
I'm saying now we start to mixer up and it's on the lowest setting first thing we want to do is
wet the blades wet everything wet the blaze what the inside of the mixer you close your eyes and
do this tough guy the idea is if you don't wet the blade when you put your bag of cement in
there it doesn't matter what kind of cement you use it if you use in Portland eyes and wall or
twenty other different products you got to wet these blades otherwise it'll stick to the blade
then what what I used to do when I work when I first got into hard carrying and hot carrying
got it's its name right because I'll tell you what guys is hard work that's how they a lot of
lot of companies will call us plaster tenders to so you either a plaster tender or a hot carrier
and hard don't mean har D like it's hard work it's h OD HOD because you carry a hard - now the
best way to do it the material guys will love it or the rental yards will love it if you do
it this way when I work I remember forgetting the buck at one time this guy the man old Sam
yelled at me and I said don't worry man I'm 19 I know everything I said I'll just put this on
like this put it right here and I'm letting now it's on and it's squirt and he's this damn it
Kirk that's my mixer you're going to blow out my shear pins if you do that or blow the mixers up
these guys are called shear bolts shear pins and if you put dry mix in here what will happen is
these got the name they will shear off in half they're inside here you have to remove these
and replace these say you get a real hard v mix after lunch and stiff or you just mix it stiff
you always blow these the rental yards are famous for you'll call this a minute I blew
up your mix of sorry guys and they'll say it's a shear pin that blew anyhow what I like to do is
like what I used to do with Oh Sam he taught me this 30-something 35 years ago take a bucket of
water you dip it in here you get five gallons that's a full mix guys you could adjust it a
little bit more water if you like and what we did is we would take a water hose unscrew the nozzle
when this goes way down drop that in there that is fill itself when it fills itself over flood
put the nozzle back on and you're ready to go hang that nozzle because you're going to use it again
and since we're using this we're using a quick set material on this eyes and wall rapid set I
got to put set control in it because it's gonna be a hot day today anyway what we do is you can put
two of these in by the way guys if it's really hot because you got about I don't know maybe I
dunno about 40 minutes to put this on before it starts to set if you have reset control we
call it retardant you can give yourself an extra half hour it was a really hot day 100 you better
put two of these guys in they even sell this at a lot of the hardware stores now - called
rapid set so I'm going to put this in I like to mix it with the water guide then once that's in
there let it mix for a second we take this bag here now what I used to do is I'd take us for
footer and a long plank and have it so I can just stand up and the bag at my waist but I'm
showing you guys how to mix and I haven't done this in about 20 year Jason normally doesn't but
he's on the camera I'll just go ahead and lift it and what we do is we throw the bag on here
when I was doing this I took a grinder to mine and I made a sharp so I just pick it up slam a
bag pull it up like that and go in this is kind of dull here but here's a way to do it guys we
take a bag oh he's got a lot heavier in 30 years take a knife cut it and then pull it open now you
guys a lot of ways to do this you pull it open I don't want it in my face so I'm going to try to
get a little bit higher you put that guy in there on a windy day it can be a real drag doing that
now I have three to five minutes to mix this, so I'm gonna turn the blades off
By the way, guys, this particular marriage material has three to five minutes to mix it. If
you have a full wheelbarrow or a full mixer of it, we turn the blades off, then we turn it only back
on when we take it out because you're not supposed to over mix this particular material over here.
all you fellows asking Jason how to do this or me J generally does this now is a regular
shovel this is the scoop now depending on the mix you can put 12 to 15 shovel fulls
and that's a shovel guy if you're going to shovel like this that's not a shovel
you're going to have to put 100 of those so that's a full shovel that's one or two
and we put about actually it's like around 25 these regular shovels the scoops is about 12,
12 to 15 max now the scoop holds twice as much again now that's that's one I had it backwards a
minute ago where this is about 25 this is about 12 to 13 and you can adjust your mix guys it doesn't
have to be that particular if I'm doing ceilings I'll use a lot left hand if I'm doing walls I'll
use more and if I'm scratching Brown and all take practice we adjust the mix alright guys so we cut
that a second ago but we wanted to show you my dad knows all the old school tips how to mix it but
for the last 10 years because I've been doing it what good is showing you how to mix if we don't
show you what it looks like when you're done so once you've got your mix with this stuff you
can only go a couple of minutes here's what you want it to look like got it coming out of here
And the superior it is, the easier it is. You don't want it too soupy,
but you don't want it to stick to where you can't spread it.
So it's almost like kind of a cream consistency, and you push this stuff back in now I'm going to
bring this over, and we're going to get to work anyway, guys that's the consistency. So this is
Jason with Kirk giordano plastering, and we will see you at the next one.