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	Name:	flatlander -
	Subject:	Truth
	Date:	7/22/2012 4:09:20 PM

I've heard that story about concrete cracks. But my father, a WWII vet and now, at 88, a lifelong farmer, was obsessed with qualify concrete. He fed cattle in central Illinois after the war and was enraged by the yearling steers floundering in the mud fall and winter. He made it his mission in life to cover as much of the feedlot as possible with concrete, which he and I and my brother worked and cured for as much as a month. Every year a strip 8 feet wide and 200 feet long was poured and cured. Tractors used it to clear manure and 300 yearlings a year lived on it. There are still only a handful of small cracks in the pads. So I know it is possible to make and cure good concrete, even though hardly anybody does it.

Thanks for the name and the good advice. I think you have hit the nail on the head in terms of my problem. And I thank you!

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