Jesus said, "It is finished"...but we are far from finished. Yet we finally have an actual CONCRETE canoe!!!! The team and I spent all day in the structures lab at school playing around with the reinforcement and the soupy concrete (ooops that one was my fault). Finally after an hour and a half and some pizza, we were able to work the concrete up the sides of the form and around the wire mesh. VERY exciting because we now have concrete proof, haha. The next goal is to remove it from the form without cracking it in about 14 days...yeah we'll see about that. So, I did a quick calculation, we used 6 cubic feet of concrete and that comes to a whopping 528 lbs even using a lightweight concrete. By faith did Peter walk on water and by faith and a little patching we will float concrete!
Here is the styrofoam form, painted with gray latex paint (to prevent the concrete from sticking) and lined with a wire mesh as reinforcment.
I'm pouring in the first bucket of concrete...here goes!
We worked the concrete up the walls of the form and eventually it stuck to the mesh and stayed. The little squares, called chairs, are 1/4" pieces of wood to hold the wire mesh up.
Woohoo! Concrete canoe!
We worked the concrete up the walls of the form and eventually it stuck to the mesh and stayed. The little squares, called chairs, are 1/4" pieces of wood to hold the wire mesh up.
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