Only in Texas, Don and Harv doing

[mikim]

<font color="blue"> Do you need help or need to borrow anything - like a concrete mixer? </font> ...nope -- just hooking up some water line and other odds & ends <font color="blue"> do you think we can do the slab ourselves?</font> yeah - just be well rested and ready to hustle -- you know that stuff dries faster than us weekend warriors are comfortable with. When are you going to pour? The more bodies you have the better - if you even just have a third - they can start floating while the other two are still screeding off.

 

[txdon]

Trying to stay focused on a project when there are so many projects to do is a full time job. This retirement is almost like working and being self employed with myself being the only client. It is good.

Besides digging out the spring, attending community college, repairing things etc etc.... Anyway, enough excuses. Now that I have delayed my self into the summer the tools are really getting hot hot.

 

[txdon]

Trying to stay focused on a project when there are so many projects to do is a full time job. This retirement is almost like working and being self employed with myself being the only client. It is good.

Besides digging out the spring, attending community college, repairing things etc etc.... Anyway, enough excuses. Now that I have delayed my self into the summer the tools are really getting hot hot.

 

[txdon]

....but the Harvey "no slip" connectors and a tarp make some quick needed temporary shade.

Note: This is not the intended use of the clips but they worked great. The tension from the tarp holds them in a bind and no screws are needed.

 

[txdon]

....but the Harvey "no slip" connectors and a tarp make some quick needed temporary shade.

Note: This is not the intended use of the clips but they worked great. The tension from the tarp holds them in a bind and no screws are needed.

 

[txdon]

My friend, Peter, strolls by each evening to check things out.

 

[txdon]

My friend, Peter, strolls by each evening to check things out.

 

[EddieWalker]

Don,

We have a friend just like Peter that visits on a daily basis. It's always a pleasure when he/she stops by and something that I really enjoy.

One thing that I do to get as much done as I can when it gets warm is to seperate my projects into two categories. Hot ones that I do in the morning and evening, and Cool ones that are either indoors or trips to town that I do during the heat of the day. Usually there's about 3 to 4 hours when it's too hot to think, much less try to hold hot tools, material or try to see through the sweet running down my face.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

Don,

We have a friend just like Peter that visits on a daily basis. It's always a pleasure when he/she stops by and something that I really enjoy.

One thing that I do to get as much done as I can when it gets warm is to seperate my projects into two categories. Hot ones that I do in the morning and evening, and Cool ones that are either indoors or trips to town that I do during the heat of the day. Usually there's about 3 to 4 hours when it's too hot to think, much less try to hold hot tools, material or try to see through the sweet running down my face.

Eddie

 

[txdon]

<font color="blue"> "...there's about 3 to 4 hours when it's too hot to think..." </font>

First of all, congratulations Eddie. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Down here in Lee county it is above 95 degrees between 11 A .M. and 7 P. M. Thats about 8 hours of unthinkable time for me. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Finally finished the framing (except for the ledge) and packed in the gravel. On the top I put 1/2" of sand and tamped it again. I then soaked it and then tamped it again.

The beams are average 12" wide and 9" deep the slab (21'X9') will be 4" thick. I figure it will take about 3 and a half cubic yards of concrete including the beams.

Next will be the plastic and then the steel then the ledge and the electrical conduit and then I'll figure where the bolts will be located for one side of the door frame.

I was wondering, should I add another 9' beam in the center?

Sorry for the blurry picture it was taken in low light (9 P. M.).