TODAYS SEAT TIME

[grsthegreat]

65 and slight wind here today. Spent 4 hours chipping trees and hauling wood. Hurt my back last week, do im taking it easy today. Just work the 4, then sitting in lounge eating watermelon

 

[LouNY]

This weekends seat time was mostly in the pickup, spent 2 1/2 hours driving to look at a 3 foot flail mower and 3 hours returning with it,
then Sunday getting it unloaded and hooked up to the tractor for a short trial run.

still need to decide just were to mount the controls and how and also to make a pair of shoes for it, to raise it and make it more stable when not hooked up.

 

[ptsg]

Nice score Lou! Should be a very good match for the Branson.

 

[4570Man]

I dug and pinned a footer today. It sure is a pain to put the pins in rock. I know you could drive them in the side of the ditch but I don’t like doing that. They’re too easy to bend out of place. After the backhoes work was done I used it for shade over the transit. Before any safety police have a stroke the M59 loader has a safety prop.

 

[Oldpath05]

So why do you pins in rock for footing? doesn't look like your on a side of a mountain.

 

[4570Man]

So why do you pins in rock for footing? doesn't look like your on a side of a mountain.

They’re grade markers for concrete.

 

[Oldpath05]

I dug and pinned a footer today. It sure is a pain to put the pins in rock. I know you could drive them in the side of the ditch but I don稚 like doing that. Theyæ±*e too easy to bend out of place.
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Looks like you drilled for the pins, and then you have pins going in the side of ditch holding a board, whats that for? No I dont know much about pouring concrete, all I know is make a form out of planks, put rebar in, call a guy to call the cement people to come and pour.

Back in 2013

 

[4570Man]

If you started pouring the concrete level pretty quickly you’d run out of the ditch or taper to nothing. The wood boards are steps that will later be taken up by block. Each board is the height of a block. The pins all on they’re own driven into the side are easily bent out of place. The board is hammered into place and then screwed onto the pins. It’s reasonably sturdy. Also it remains visible so they won’t be accidentally hit with rakes like the grade pins probably will be.

 

[LouNY]

Just think of the fun you could have if your footings had to be 4 feet down.

 

[4570Man]

Just think of the fun you could have if your footings had to be 4 feet down.

That would be close to impossible here. You can hardly ever dig that deep here. You’d be rock hammering for months.

 

[LouNY]

That would be close to impossible here. You can hardly ever dig that deep here. You’d be rock hammering for months.

Have to so here, when my brother built his house they had a D-8 with a single shank ripper to break up the rock, and excavators with hammers are frequently used.
It makes absolutely no sense to me, if you are solidly situated on bed rock it shouldn't require a footing deeper then that.
The stated reasoning is that the bottom of the footer is to be below the frost depth so as to eliminate frost heaving,
when you get to actual bed rock I don't believe that is an issue.
But building codes are not written or enforced by individuals with actual knowledge.

 

[4570Man]

Have to so here, when my brother built his house they had a D-8 with a single shank ripper to break up the rock, and excavators with hammers are frequently used.
It makes absolutely no sense to me, if you are solidly situated on bed rock it shouldn't require a footing deeper then that.
The stated reasoning is that the bottom of the footer is to be below the frost depth so as to eliminate frost heaving,
when you get to actual bed rock I don't believe that is an issue.
But building codes are not written or enforced by individuals with actual knowledge.

I agree with the last part. Frost heaving isn’t much if any concern here. My work had to be inspected and passed.

 

[4570Man]

I got the footer I dug yesterday poured and dug and pinned another one today.

 

[Oldpath05]

I got the footer I dug yesterday poured and dug and pinned another one today.
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Now I see what that one board is for on the right, but the other boards I see no need. Are you playing tic tac toe with cement footings and all these are for what?

 

[4570Man]

Every board serves the same purpose. They’re both house with garage footings. The houses sadly aren’t 4 sided rectangles is the point of all the ditches.

 

[Oldpath05]

Got it.:thumbsup:

 

[Oldpath05]

Every board serves the same purpose. They’re both house with garage footings. The houses sadly aren’t 4 sided rectangles is the point of all the ditches.

Footers all done?

 

[4570Man]

Footers all done?

The second one is going in tomorrow. They started block on the first one today.

 

[Oldpath05]

Doing some loader work today filling in both ends of my bridge. I did a time run on 6 trips, came to a 1 hr and 10 minutes equals 2 yards so about a hour is best I can do with 6 trips, 3rd gear low is loaded bucket travel speed at just above idle, 4 low is empty bucket travel speed, now only 20 more yards to go........

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[Sawyer Rob]

I spent most of my day rotary cutting...

Boy, am I ever glad to have most of what needed cutting, cut!!

SR