Garage and road project

[Sir Henry]

It’s almost set hard enough to walk on.

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Now it will be about a three week wait for the building construction.

[Travlin]

Isn't the slab for a garage? How come no anchor bolts?

[Sir Henry]

Isn't the slab for a garage? How come no anchor bolts?

It will be a metal building and they will drill through the concrete and bolt it.

[GeoBoy]

Gene, I let my slab cure for 30 days before they set the building on it. Not a 1 crack in that slab.

[dave77]

My slab is a lot smaller than yours but I made stress cuts in the concrete and also used fiber reinforced concrete. Also kept the concrete wet for around a week after the pour. No cracks in 18 years.

[Sir Henry]

Gene, I let my slab cure for 30 days before they set the building on it. Not a 1 crack in that slab.

Mine will cure for 24 days or more. Putting the building up won’t add a lot of weight. It’s all the extra stuff that makes it heavy.

My slab is a lot smaller than yours but I made stress cuts in the concrete and also used fiber reinforced concrete. Also kept the concrete wet for around a week after the pour. No cracks in 18 years.

Rain is keeping mine wet.

[Sir Henry]

I ordered another 40 loads of material. This time it’s called dirty quarry and is basically just rock and clay. It will make good cheap fill so I can extend the level platform out another 20 feet by about 120 feet long although it narrows to 10 feet at the back and will only be three feet deep instead of 10 feet like the front.

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I suspect I’ll switch back to road gravel after 20 loads and then the last 5 of the 40 loads will be clean gravel.

[Sir Henry]

I received 8 loads of dirty quarry yesterday and leveled it today.

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It doesn’t look like it but it’s a ten foot drop from the edge of the fresh mark and the green vegetation.

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It was so wet I had a mud slide.

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I want to retrieve these two rocks and put them on the corners of the garage.

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I’m not sure my little tractor is up for the task.

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I still have 30 more loads coming. Here the drop is more apparent.

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We received an inch of rain in about an hour. I was on the tractor at the time. I was soaked in five minutes so I kept on working.

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[dave77]

Hard to judge the scale of those rocks in the photo but they look to be awful big for your front end loader. If you have a path to where you want them that's not too steep maybe you could drag or push them. I've moved some pretty big rocks with my truck or a come-a-long, chain and a post but nothing as big as that one on the right looks.

Envy your rainfall, we haven't had any measurable rain for at least a couple of months and even then it was only around a 1/2 inch. Can still see a little snow up on Mission Ridge but probably not after next week, 100 degree plus temps predicted for all of next week and it's 95 right now. If the rest of the Summer is as hot as it's been the last couple of years our creek will probably be dry or down to a trickle soon.

[Sir Henry]

Hard to judge the scale of those rocks in the photo but they look to be awful big for your front end loader. If you have a path to where you want them that's not too steep maybe you could drag or push them. I've moved some pretty big rocks with my truck or a come-a-long, chain and a post but nothing as big as that one on the right looks.

Envy your rainfall, we haven't had any measurable rain for at least a couple of months and even then it was only around a 1/2 inch. Can still see a little snow up on Mission Ridge but probably not after next week, 100 degree plus temps predicted for all of next week and it's 95 right now. If the rest of the Summer is as hot as it's been the last couple of years our creek will probably be dry or down to a trickle soon.

I wasn’t able to move the rocks. Mainly bectthey we’re down the slope too far. Had they been on level ground I think I could have skidded them into place.