Posted by JD Seller on July 05, 2013 at 22:53:25 from (208.126.196.144):
I helped a good friend pour some concrete today. He and I are both the same age. He has a creek crossing that washed out the gravel this spring. When they put in the double culverts they had concreted the ends a little bit. That kept them from washing out completely but the middle and the down stream end had all the rock and concrete washed out. He was able to get the rock back out of the creek that had washed down stream. We let the gravel set a week to settle and dry out.
Yesterday morning we poured 4 yards of concrete on and around the ends to keep the water from going along the culverts and washing them out. We had to do this with real stiff concrete to get it to stand up on the slopes. I used my "fancy" concrete finishing tool on the ends. LOL a SCOOP shovel. Worked great to rough finish concrete. The back to smooth and the edge to move the concrete with. I did finish the surface with a hand trawl. Then after lunch we poured 9 yards of concrete on the road way. We used old cattle panels for reenforcement on the slopes and the flat part. We just leveled it off by eye and floated the finish a little bit. We wanted a rough finish and the surface to be not real even so that equipment tires can get better traction on it.
So one more job done by the "Hillbilly Construction Company" LOL
So the two of us poured and smoothed out 13 yards of concrete by ourselves. Lets just say I am sore tonight and bet that the morning is going to be real fun.
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