The Crazy Helresa Concrete Slide of DOOM

Here we are with another Helresa contraption to make things a little more easy for us.
The Problem:
We need to pour concrete for the foundation of the wall repair two terraces below the cement mixer. In the past we have just carried it down in a bucket. This time there is quite a bit to move (about 8 to ten mixes) at 4 bucket loads a mix that is around 40 trips.
The Solution:
A rope slide... We have ridged up a line from the poles that hold up the vines out side the back of the house, down to a power pole on the terrace. Then the bucket gets slid down ... the concrete poured in to a wheelbarrow and then poured in to the foundation.

The Slide of DOOM

Poring concrete - There is a wheelbarrow there honest.

In Practice:
Once it was set up we discovered one small problem, the rope streches a little under load so that the bucket hit the ground on the terrace above its destination. But this was simple to solve, a little less in the bucket and put the rope up a little higher on the pole. Once this was done it actually worked quite well, most of the time.

The bucket on the slide.

Theresa did let go of the rope once or twice, neatly coating the power pole with concrete and almost decapitating me, but in the end we had the foundation done .. now its time for a shower and off out.The Finished foundations... A Good Mornings work.