We remedied this by requiring less concrete to be deposited at the start, thus giving the rammers time to place the material properly.
This also meant an increased cost in the ramming, as the rammers were idle some time waiting for a new batch to be mixed.
In order to help in bonding, the last ramming on the concrete was done with rammers studded with pieces of iron about 1 in.
The rammers not only rammed the concrete but they also bent down the prongs of the steel to get them in place in the narrow forms, and afterwards had to pull out these prongs.
The hand-rammers are undoubtedly worth study and careful design.
It is there, for instance, that various types of shuttering and rammers are being experimentally tested side by side, and their relative efficiency under varying conditions ascertained.
The workmen are not to use their rammers in unison.
There are some who, instead, use two rounded rammers three and a half digits in diameter, the same at the bottom as at the top.
The guns were not half loaded, for so close were the vessels that in loading the rammers were shoved right against the side of the Frolic.
Stripped to the waist, and covered with the stains of powder and of blood, the gunners pulled fiercely at the gun-tackle, and wielded the rammers with frantic energy.
When the reckless inspector snapped hammers and jingled rammers and squinted inquisitively into muskets' murderous mouths, our friend the Sutler, profoundly versed in the preciousness of cautiousness, was nowhere seen.
Bright steel rammers gleam in the glare of the giddy avenue.
The diameter of the thicknesse of these two rammersmust be a thought lesse than the diameter of the rowler, to the end they may not hurt the coffin, being driuen in.
They are applicable to the charging of rockets, if they are to be driven hollow; if not, solid rammers are employed.
Rammers must have a ferrule, or collar of brass at the bottom, to keep the wood from spreading, or splitting.
The rammers should be furnished with rings or ferrules, and the first bored with a hole of sufficient length to receive the piercer.
Rammers or chargers, pierced with holes in their length, more or less, to receive the piercer.
The rammers which are used for compression, are cylindrical like the preceding.
When in the act of ramming, the drift or driver must be kept constantly turning or moving; and when the hollow rammers are used, the composition is to be knocked out every now and then, or the piercer will split them.
These sorts of moulds are made of any length or diameter, as the cases are required; but the diameter of the form must be equal to half the caliber, and the rammers solid.
Several hollowrammers are used in completing the charge.
These rammers are of the same size with the lights of their respective fuses, and have a head to receive the blows of a mallet.
The vessels had gradually approached, and were now so near, that in loading some of the guns of the Wasp, the rammers hit against the bows of her antagonist, and the men of the Frolic could no longer be kept at their quarters forward.
The rammers and sponges belonging to the broadside-guns of spar-deck divisions of all ships having topgallant forecastles, or other light decks, may be kept under the forecastle or light deck when not in use.
Trial was therefore made on board the Plymouth, where the gun was on a covered deck, of hooks attached to the beams above, near each piece, in which the Sponges and Rammers were placed after having been used.
The sponges and rammers are now to be attached in their places on the trail.
For all chambered guns except those of the Dahlgren pattern, the rammers will be adapted to the chamber, but, as above described, will answer equally well for the shot and selvagee wad.
The resistance was as desperate as the assault: officers used freely their swords, the men clubbed their muskets, others used their bayonets, and others still axes and the rammers of the cannon.
An hour had nearly elapsed since the front had been reached; several of the captains had reported that the guns of their men were getting so hot that the rammers were leaping out of the pipes at every discharge.
Looking down on her deck, Phil saw her gun crews toiling with sponges and rammersto load anew.
So close were the two vessels to each other, that, in loading, the rammers were shoved up against the sides of the "Frolic.
So close together did the two ships come at times, that the rammers were sometimes thrust into the port-holes of the opposite ship in loading.
The sponges andrammers were hooked to the beams above the gun ready for use.
The rammers were of hard wood, shod with brass, "to save the Head from cleaving.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rammers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
