

Avoid arching your back instead, bend your legs. Use a dolly to transport heavy materials. Physical mindfulness is crucial in any heavy lifting.

This increases efficiency and will make getting out of bed the next day feasible. (A cement mixer is an option if available.) Make sure to focus on leg quadricep, hamstring, and calve muscles pushing material back and forth, as opposed to solely using back and arms. Using a 4’x3’ rectangular tub I mix the materials with a hoe manually. This ensures consistent mix and makes mixing substantially easier. Sculptor: Nick SchofieldĪfter applying an N95 mask, I prefer mixing the three materials dry initially. Mix until the consistency of peanut butter. Optional: powdered/liquid concrete coloring, gold fines, decomposed granite, etc. Get more ideas for using hypertufa in Nancy’s other article. Ray Turner shows a picture of his helix mountain still unpainted for us to study the final photo shows a magnificently finished set of bridges spanning the cement-product valley backdropped by Silicon Valley.

Two reports show four different applications for hypertufa. Nancy Norris photo How have you made structures and walls with hypertufa or similar cement products? Hypertufa recipe and techniques My helper, Nick, gives his version of “How to Mix and Apply Hypertufa” on two of my projects (Cretaceous Caves and the front yard gallery).
