22 YARDS of CONCRETE

Today was the big driveway pad concrete pour! We got up WAYYY before the sun to finish everything up as far as gravel and forms are concerned... The crew (Tatus, Mamusia, Ciocia, Wojcio and Pawel) got here at 8ish and we had some time to kill before the 9am truck so we had some breakfast. Well the truck turned out to be late... He eventually got here at 11am. We got 9 of the framed squares poured with the first truck. That went smoothly and everyone had a job and we finished all of them within an hour. We had lunch and the second truck was supposed to come at 2pm and didn't come until 3:30... We yelled at the dispatcher, well I should say I YELLED, but he didn't want to hear it... When the truck got here we went on to pour the other 6 squares of the driveway pad and one larger section of the driveway itself. The driver of the second truck was not that great. He poured too slowly and didn't sweep the chute as well as the first guy... but we managed! The second pour was a little more difficult to finish but we got it done and it looks great! Then we had dinner!


There were 16 sections total for the driveway pad and some of the crossways for the pavers were removeable so we could get the concrete truck to reach all of the sections.





Donald Duck? Putting on the duck shoe covers...


Guiding the truck so he straddles the form and can reach all the sections.



First load is poured and finished!



Waiting for the second truck...





Second load is poured and finished!

DRIVEWAY FORMS

Tom's parents were here all day today. They compacted the gravel that we leveled last night and then they leveled out the hill on the backside of the driveway pad.

When we got home that evening tom's parents put the cross pieces of the forms together. Tommy and I framed further down the driveway with the curved edges and put the forms in for where the driveway starts tipping down toward the street. We leveled and compacted some more gravel in that area.

We have a bit more to do tomorrow morning before the truck shows up.




Hooper before he got sick... he chewed on a scrap piece of the expansion joint (like tar paper) and then he started throwing up... pour thing was so upset!