Brown Swiss the way we always mixed concrete was 3-2-1. 3 shovels gravel, 2 shovels sand, 1 shovel Portland cement. I have pored a fair amount of concrete in my younger days. The entire west cattle pens here where poured with a hand filled mixer. Each yard is 100x 200. There are four sections this big. Usually took a week per section. I sure could not shovel that much any more.
We had two mixers that fit on the three point. We piled the sand a gravel out side of where we were pouring. So park one tractor/mixer by the piles and fill that one mixer up. Move it to where we were pouring while filling the other mixer. Usually four of us. One on each tractor and two shoveling, with one dumping the concrete and rough leveling it out. Every 5 dumps we would screed off the poured concrete.
We used a lot of old wire corn cribs as reinforcing wire in these floors. At the time you could get wire cribs for tearing them down. Many of those cribs where galvanized too.
I have had to cut out some sections of this to replace water lines. That concrete is harder then the ready mix stuff. We poured it pretty dry so it would not flow too far as we worked across each sub-section.
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