Building A Platform For Concrete Mixer - Pizza Oven Hearth - June 2024
A few days ago, I shared an update on our DIY backyard wood-fired pizza oven build that showed the latest progress: the installation of the final rebar and bracing (wires) for the raised, reinforced concrete hearth. I'm set to pour that 4.5" thick hearth (plus the filling of the pressed bond beam block cavities (so...around 8" deep around the perimeter and 12" deep across the opening spans), but the forms of the heart sit 42" above grade. Like I did with the foundation slab, I'm planning on using the MudMixer to help pour the concrete. The problem that I'm facing is that the Mudmixer's chute stands just 16" from the ground. That means....that I have to either use buckets to lift the mixed concrete up from the Mudmixer chute or....raise the Mudmixer to allow it to 'POUR' directly into the raised hearth. If you look back at this post where I showed the foundation slab pour, you can see that I made a platform for the Mudmixer to allow...