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3 ballast, 2 sand, 1 cement.
If you wish to get cement it's better to buy it bagged. If you wish to make concrete using the ratio suggested there would be 64 sand to 80 of gravel.
for the coping bed -22 shovels sand -1 bag cement -1 shovel mircale lime brick joints - 5 sand - 2 cement - no lime (shovels)
sand=2*Weight of Cement water=cement/2
How many shovel of sand in a wheelbarrows
It would depend on the size of the shovel, but on average, a 25kg bag of soft sand would fill around 4-5 medium-sized shovels.
You should use 12 sand (washed sand) 1 bag of cement and 1 shovel of clay (fire clay is ok) or replace the clay with 2.5 shovels of hydrated lime. Mix ti a consistency that reminds you of whipped cream. It will look a bit like elephant hyde.
0.42cub.m (Cement sand mortar)
8 kilos sand to the 2 kilos cement.
Put two shovels full of masonry sand, two shovels full of cement, and one shovel full of lime into a wheelbarrow. Add several gallons of water to the mix in small amounts. Mix the materials together until thoroughly blended. More water may be added if mixture is too dry.
1 cement 2 sand 3 gravel