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Kingston,Mi | Concrete should be reinforced with materials designed to reinforce concrete; re-bar or specifically designed and constructed re-rod panels on several different styles of chairs or the correct blocks. Feedlot panels would be perfectly okay once they have been first to the scrap yard, then to a short steel factory that manufactures re-rod then finally returned to a concrete supply warehouse.
The hook on the back of a concrete come-a-long is to impress sidewalk supervisors, anyone who STILL believes that a 250 pound man standing 2 feet away from the location that he/she hooks into the welded "reinforcing" wire , then lifts it into the critical location within the slab and that it miraculously remains where it was carefully placed must believe in the Easter Bunny and that the news media is neutral.
Effective use of reinforcing steel in concrete is a mathematical relationship between the amount of steel per square inch of the finished section. Reinforcing steel used in slab work is functioning as temperature and shrinkage steel, ii is designed to prevent cracks from spreading and/or displacing vertically due to changes in temperature and shrinkage during curing. The deformations on re-rod or re-bar are there by design to provide grip in the concrete.
A better use of those surplus wire panels is very stout and over built tomato cages or as tree guards if you are not going to haul them to the recycler. It also appears that some concrete turns out okay even after determined misapplication of otherwise useful products.
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Concrete question: use old hog panels as reinforcement?
