Concrete's poured

rrlund · Nov 1, 2014

The boys were busy,but the wife and I got those two strips of concrete poured in that new barn. Eight loads in the big tractor mounted mixer. Wouldn't have been quite so bad if the wind wasn't so darned cold. I had to wear too many clothes and worked up a sweat shoveling gravel I every load then had to get on the tractor to haul it out there.
I feel kinda worthless sitting around with a few hours of daylight left,but I'm all in but my shoelaces and they're dragging.

johnlobb · Nov 1, 2014

Good job, Randy! Sounds like you got er done!

casenut1 · Nov 1, 2014

What , no pics!

Brown Swiss · Nov 1, 2014

Good job, but does this mean your not a spring chicken any more???? LOL

old popper · Nov 1, 2014

I gave up that playing in the concrete, that is why I hired the wife's patio done by pros.

rrlund · Nov 1, 2014

I don't have the energy to walk back out there.

rrlund · Nov 1, 2014

This had better be my last major project,that's all I'm saying.

Dave H (MI) · Nov 1, 2014

I'd like to know more about your mixer. I am in the market for a bigger one. I have barn work ahead of me also...next summer.

larry@stinescorner · Nov 1, 2014

at our age I know how you feel,just dream of sitting under the umbrella,next to your rv,selling stuff,sipping a cold iced tea and nibbling on a pretzel now and then,giving change when you sell an item,talking to the people who walk by,take a walk once in a while,trade some items with other vendors,talk with them,,,etc.,,,,etc,,,,,dont even think about cows or hay? Maybe think of Olivers though,,,,!,,,,,lol

Spook · Nov 1, 2014

Just curious, what did the cement cost you vs. oredering it from the premix place? I looked at it 20 years ago, and it was almost zero...

J.Wondergem · Nov 1, 2014

Tomorrow you can go out there and see if any cows put their initials in it.

rrlund · Nov 1, 2014

We put up several gates,but if they were ever going to go through them......

rrlund · Nov 1, 2014

That darned stuff is up to $12.45 a bag. If I had to buy the gravel,there's no way I could do it cheaper myself. I have more to pour yet after this sets up so I can move the ones out of another barn in,but I can't pour that until those cattle are out of there. If I could have done it all at once,I'd have gotten redi mix for sure.
My brother is in the sand and gravel business,so I took my gooseneck trailer to the pit and loaded some gravel on that.

rrlund · Nov 1, 2014

It takes a whole bag of cement in one batch. 3pt,PTO driven. There was a similar mixer on an auction in September. I don't recall right off hand what it brought,but it seemed high. Something like $950 or so. A Mennonite bought it. That'll be a community project without a doubt.

jm. · Nov 1, 2014

Add the sand and stone and that would be around $90.00 for yard of 5 bag mix with no cost for trucking. We buy cement in the bulk and are close to the sand a grave. cost me about 80 dollars a yard BUT we can do it when we want to and as we have to. Saturday delivery anything less than 10 yards cost us $105.00 a yard so some saving but really the convince of doing it when we want to is why I do as we do.

kruser · Nov 1, 2014

DANG - I thought it was NEXT weekend!
Bunch of YTer's were coming to help.
Jim

rrlund · Nov 1, 2014

Ha! Gotcha! There's more to do next weekend. Sunday will probably be best for the boys here. What time are all of you coming?

ditchwitch · Nov 1, 2014

LOL, that was funny

larry@stinescorner · Nov 2, 2014

we will be there,get started early and we will drop by later

Rick Kr · Nov 2, 2014

Finished my pour last weekend. Only a 1/2 yard. Too small to bring a truck in for, wish my mixer was a little bigger. I think it took 11 loads, but I wasn't filling it to the brim because the wife was helping. Never turn down free labor.

Rick

rrlund · Nov 2, 2014

There was going to be a steak dinner,but then I read the story of the little red hen. lol

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