Hi Folks,
I had 6- 8x8x16 inch concrete blocks left over from another project around the hous and tossed them into the abyss.
I also recently named this place the "Mud flat" we've had a ton of rain the last few weeks and the guy who was clearing all these pine trees out has had his dozer and trackhoe on site for about 2-3 months now...no sooner does it dry out, then it rains another frog strangler again!
He's almost finished with his job...he gave me a great price on clearing the place out, but I have to be willing to work around his schedule, and he comes out here( weather permitting) and piddles around on weekends and goes back to making serious money commercially than by residential stuff....he calls projects like mine "mad money".
But with all this rain, everything is taking on the appearance of some of our SC low country tidal flats.
The concrete I picked up at "Lowes"( one of those home improvement places) for about 3.65 a bag.
Maybe I should have went cement and mixed my own rock, however easy access to rock is not plentiful around here, It would have to been delivered from a rock quarry ...river sand yes is plentiful, rocks lying around, not too many.but we make up for this sohrtcoming with dense clay soil to the center of the earth...seriously you can dig down 30 feet, 50 feet, even deeper and the dense clay remains the same.
I kind of shied away from the concrete truck, because it was getting muddy around here...the guy clearing the trees told me they will royally screw up the ground around here with thier weight(since my whole area looks like a recently plowed field) and if you get them stuck, the customer foots the bill for a large wrecker to pull them out... I'm too cheap for that route!
If things would dry out for a moment I would get the four guy areas dug and let the concrete truck have at it...around here they are charging about 125-150 bucks a cubic yard now.
But you guys are right! There is a law of diminishing returns when you mix large batches of concrete by hand vs operating the chute behind the truck or owning your own mixer!