Today is the first day under 100* in the last forty days. Highest was 118*. I poured a yard of concrete today for a new building. I am adding onto an existing slab and making a barn to store the tractor that will be used for horse shoeing and washing animals as well.
I needed .81 of a yard of concrete and got one of the portable mixer trailers with one yard in it from the local landscape place. My slab is 17'x4'x 4" thick. Needless to say they shorted me concrete. I had to slope the slab off to one side as it was a full 1/2" low. I did the math and a 6" deep form with one yard of product would have come out 1/2" short. By my numbers I got .70 of a yard. I gave the place I bought the concrete from a piece of my mind. The guy tried to blame it on me for having it deeper than 4". I showed him pictures of the forms and prepared surface.....it was 4" thick in the deepest areas and 3.5" around three sides at the forms. He continued with giving me the runaround and I just looked at him and told him my shit was right and there is no way I received a yard of concrete.
We are buried in smoke right now and there are fire attack planes going over my house at the rate of three a minute, five minute break and then three more. I think there are 10 planes working this fire . This fire (park fire) started in Chico and has burned three counties north and is now east of me. It is heading for our logging site and we got all the equipment out in the last two days (3 million dollars worth of equipment). We never had fires make these huge runs before.....this is new to the last 5-7 years where these fires are allowed to run long distances. The Dixie fire, this Park fire,, and a bunch more have been allowed to burn or not stopped properly.....fires are big business in the north state and I think fire fighting practices in the last 15 years have changed for the worse that allows fires to run....
I needed .81 of a yard of concrete and got one of the portable mixer trailers with one yard in it from the local landscape place. My slab is 17'x4'x 4" thick. Needless to say they shorted me concrete. I had to slope the slab off to one side as it was a full 1/2" low. I did the math and a 6" deep form with one yard of product would have come out 1/2" short. By my numbers I got .70 of a yard. I gave the place I bought the concrete from a piece of my mind. The guy tried to blame it on me for having it deeper than 4". I showed him pictures of the forms and prepared surface.....it was 4" thick in the deepest areas and 3.5" around three sides at the forms. He continued with giving me the runaround and I just looked at him and told him my shit was right and there is no way I received a yard of concrete.
We are buried in smoke right now and there are fire attack planes going over my house at the rate of three a minute, five minute break and then three more. I think there are 10 planes working this fire . This fire (park fire) started in Chico and has burned three counties north and is now east of me. It is heading for our logging site and we got all the equipment out in the last two days (3 million dollars worth of equipment). We never had fires make these huge runs before.....this is new to the last 5-7 years where these fires are allowed to run long distances. The Dixie fire, this Park fire,, and a bunch more have been allowed to burn or not stopped properly.....fires are big business in the north state and I think fire fighting practices in the last 15 years have changed for the worse that allows fires to run....
