No scaffolding whatever was used and only one man was required overhead to dump the buckets and tamp the concrete into place.
The trouble with this form is that it is difficult to tamp concrete under the bottom portion of the form, and hence a very rough surface is produced.
The casemates had enough earth over them to tamp the shell thoroughly, but not enough to prevent it from coming into contact with the masonry, and the latter was not thick enough to resist the explosion of the big charges.
Be sure to tampdown the earth well about the posts.
Tamp the dirt around both plant and can, and fill the latter with water.
After treating the lower ends of posts for three and a half feet with creosote or tar, place in the ground, plumb each one while filling in, and tamp the earth about them firmly.
Pour in the cement quite wet, and tamp it down occasionally until full.
Having cut the mortises for the horizontal tie piece a, place the first post in the hole dug for it, tamp the earth around it, and plumb with "level and plumb.
These other Ammophilas, instead of using their hard heads to tamp down the soil in the hole, hunted about until they found a suitable little stone which, held tightly in the jaws, was used as a tool to pack and smooth the dirt!
And after they were loosened and had fallen into the cell, she or a companion would ram her head down into the cell and pack and tamp the soft sticky pollen loads down into one even mass.
Now that Conover's gang has stopped the slide so good and square for us, we ought to be able to cut out and tamp down, too, by daybreak, sir.
Usually our levee gangs follow along and tamp the sand down, or else spread it back from the berm where it has no chance to slide.
For a tamp he scooped up from the surface of the tunnel a handful of clay, and this he packed tightly over the cap, leaving the fuse free.
To this he affixed a cap and fuse, and clapping on his tamp of clay, lit the fuse, and ran into the tunnel.
Sometimes the template is used as a tamper, being moved along very slowly accompanied by an up and down motion that tends to tamp the concrete.
Machines designed to tamp the concrete and strike it off to the required cross section are also employed for finishing.
It would take them some four hours, Jack conjectured, to tamp their mine; when that was done they would no doubt retire from the tunnel, and it would then be safe for the Spaniards to tamp their mine in turn.
