Using the giant scree board and finishing up the pumping
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Almost at the end of our 11 yard load. Thanks to our repeated math work, we got the amount just right.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Using the giant scree board and finishing up the pumping
Using the giant scree board and finishing up the pumping
Originally uploaded by justinmaple
Concrete pumping
Concrete pumping
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Giant scree board making its way across as we fill in the remaining area.
pumping in the concrete
pumping in the concrete
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Dan is trying to fix the giant scree board on the fly.
Filling in the footers
Filling in the footers
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Waiting for work as the footers get filled in.
clogged
clogged
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the concrete pump got a big rock stuck in the condenser pipe and we had a tense 3 minutes of wait and see.
Filling the footers in
Filling the footers in
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First the footers and then we moved to the inside.
trying to reconnect hoses
trying to reconnect hoses
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Lots of clogged hose on the initial pump down the hill, had to unbuckle all the lengths of hose and beat the first run through with a hammer. Then once it was going, rebuckle the hoses back together.
Concrete pumping
Concrete pumping
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3/8ths mix concrete pumped down the hill. Our good friends we're all awesome help.
Clogged hose
Clogged hose
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Working our way down the hill unclogging the hose. The gravel in the concrete would separate from the water and clog the hose.
Waiting for something to happen
Waiting for something to happen
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2 weeks later and we're back on track. This time, we're hiring a grout pump to pump the concrete the 260 feet downhill to our pad. This was a reasonable, but very expensive idea.
getting pulled out
getting pulled out
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Concrete truck getting pulled out by another giant concrete truck.
Dan, Matt, Justin
Dan, Matt, Justin
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Waiting to see what is going to happen with the concrete truck
Stuck and broken
Stuck and broken
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Sorry its been so long since I have posted anything on here. This picture sums it all up in some ways. We had a real challenging time getting concrete down, its done now, but as you can see in the photos it was a challenge.
So, for this photo, the caption: Fully loaded with 11 yards of concrete and weighing in around 90,000 lbs this truck started sinking in our driveway on the left side. He sunk down about 6 inches and we all decided it was time to back off and try something else. He put it in reverse and started heading out. This is a 6 wheel drive, 3 locking axle truck. It started back, got about 20 feet and broke the front axle. Stuck. 90,000 lbs, 11 yards of wet concrete that has to keep spinning and no way to get it down the hill to where it needs to be.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Ready for concrete
Ready for concrete
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All ready for concrete. The action starts Saturday morning.
Rebar in place
Rebar in place
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Rebar on the chairs, two sticks of No. 5 all the way around. Its a little bit of overkill, but it feels better to go overboard on it than to have an earthquake and realize we didn't go far enough.
Hogwire
Hogwire
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6"x6" hogwire flattened out, then we wired in a bunch of 1" chunks of foam in three positions all down the sections, this holds it up so that its planted inside the concrete instead of just sitting down on the bottom of the concrete.
Vapor barrier
Vapor barrier
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Visqueen spread and doubled up, then stapled up along the inside of the forms.
Had to cut the edge at an angle
It still worked out alright
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Thickened edge slab needs to have a slight angle between the pad and the footer to add some extra density in that spot.
4" duct tape
4" duct tape
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Foam going down, using 4" duct tape to hold everything together. Fortunately we spent a really long time making sure everything was completely flat before we started this part. This 25 psi foam board is pretty amazing stuff, holds all my weight on one foot without cracking or compressing.
After work today
After work today
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Picked up 17 sheets of 2" foam board insulation (R10!) for the concrete pad today. This will keep our feet from freezing solid.
The new and improved chicken run
The new and improved chicken run
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New outdoor run for the chickens. They are much happier and we are too. We put typar on the ground so that when they crap all over the place we can actually clean it up. Huge design flaw in the last run.
Cow and triplets
Cow and triplets
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Cow moose with triplets in the backyard. I dont know how common triplets are, but I haven't seen them before.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
2½ of the sides of the first forms up
2½ of the sides of the first forms up
Originally uploaded by justinmaple
Still waiting to hear if the concrete people can make it down the driveway with a full truck. If they can, we'll do two pours, one for the footers and one for the pad. If they cant, we'll have to hire a pump trailer to run the concrete down the 268 feet from the road above. This would also mean that we'll have to do a monolithic pour which is the less preferred way for us. Less forms to build, but big pain since we need to put down 2" of extruded polystyrene and 2 more inches of gravel down under the pad but not the footers.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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