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Originally Posted by plaster
Wowsa. .. where you get information?
The base need to be no thicker then 3' and taper up to no bigger then what the forms will accommodate. What in the fuck is going on here... it's like saying a 150k house will cost 1 million dollars based on instructions from the tooth fairy.
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I was a was a state licensed general contractor for 14 years and worked as a masonry subcontractor on some state and federal funded bridge projects as well years of pouring a lot of concrete, being around concrete construction and estimating and bidding jobs. You know what a rod buster is or what he makes on a federally funded job?
Also, I didn't include the site preparation necessary for a job like that. You would have to set up mobile mix plants along the border and deliver all that concrete to the forms. You ever worked around concrete pump trucks -- I have more than once.
If you form the wall as a tilt up you would need cranes and access roads.
If you form the wall standing in place you will need to bring in the form materials, and set the forms.
Either way you are going to need concrete pump trucks.
You cannot pre-cast and bring the wall to the site.
You will need Class A roads to move the heavy equipment on and temporary construction roads for a 2000 mile border length construction site.
This is not a war on immigrants. You cannot just fuck up the roads that exist and argue force majure or act of war.
What is your experience?
The cheaper tilt up wall is one foot thick and would have to be set between pilings and buttressed.
A wall that is self supporting 30 feet tall and 3 feet at its base would be unstable and topple over.
And you will be hard pressed to build a new home for $150K, Maybe, a manufactured home that they bring to your site in 2 pieces on a couple of over wide low boy trailers.
At any rate it is a ridiculous proposal to build a border wall because you could just dig tunnels under it. Even that 10 foot packed stone footing would not stop that -- you could tunnel under that.
The whole idea of building a concrete wall is asinine. Just place a land-mine field in the first 200 feet, put warning signs on either side and enclose it in a concertina wire fence. The US-Mexico border is 2000 miles long.