Only in Texas, Don and Harv doing

[txdon]

<font color="blue"> "You will see behind the walls, under the dirt and through the layers. It's what makes building so addictive!!!!" </font>

Eddie, you nail the love of building in the above quote.

I decided to take a break today and do some TRACTOR work on the building. I need to remove the vegetation from the future storage slab area and replace it with compacted various sizes and fines of gravel.

Removing the grass and top soil. picture 1

 

[txdon]

picture 2

 

[txdon]

picture 2

 

[txdon]

Picture 3.

Well, that took about 5 minutes.

As soon as it gets a bit cooler (this evening, not in the Fall) I will manually clear around the poles for the beam. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[txdon]

Picture 3.

Well, that took about 5 minutes.

As soon as it gets a bit cooler (this evening, not in the Fall) I will manually clear around the poles for the beam. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[txdon]

At sunset the storage slab area is cleared of vegetation and topsoil, raked, tamped and watered.

It is now ready to be graveled, leveled, and tamped tight, tomorrow.

 

[txdon]

At sunset the storage slab area is cleared of vegetation and topsoil, raked, tamped and watered.

It is now ready to be graveled, leveled, and tamped tight, tomorrow.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Looks good Don.

The Maximizer costs a little more per volume than standard sacrete. But it's easier to work with and it has a strength of 5500 psi versus 2500 psi for sacrete.

For anyone using it keep in mind it also sets up in about half the time of sacrete. It cooks. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I haven't used sacrete since I discovered it when mixing small amounts.

Your concrete looks better than mine. Here's where the electrical and water come up through the slab in the horse barn.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Looks good Don.

The Maximizer costs a little more per volume than standard sacrete. But it's easier to work with and it has a strength of 5500 psi versus 2500 psi for sacrete.

For anyone using it keep in mind it also sets up in about half the time of sacrete. It cooks. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I haven't used sacrete since I discovered it when mixing small amounts.

Your concrete looks better than mine. Here's where the electrical and water come up through the slab in the horse barn.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I explained to Don that I formed up the beam first. Then I decided where I wanted the water and electrical to come in to the building.

I cut two pieces of pvc at an angle and then drove them into the ground about a foot. This made it easier in this situation than digging out a cavity, roughing in the plumbing, and then filling the cavity for forming and pouring the beam.

Then I cut off the angle cuts and took off with the plumbing and electrical conduit.

This is in the county way out in the country. But I personally don't like water and electrical in the same trench. I ran the electrical about thirty inches deep and the water about eighteen.

A couple of years ago I put an auger through power and water at the same time. It was about a foot deep with direct buried romex and that black water tubing that comes in big coils. What made it extremely interesting was the electrical wasn't on a breaker and straight off the meter. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

The auger came out of the hole automatically when it heard what sounded like a gunshot. I found the tap and cut it hot with bolt cutters. It's no fun hitting water and power at the same time.