Heh heh, Andrew no, I'm not mixing it myself. 4800 lbs times 50 blocks equals 240,000 lbs of concrete. Pretty close to a quarter million. Or in you guys flavor about 110 tonnes. I can wield a shovel pretty good, and I do have a small mixer but truly Andrew you flatter me!
Modesty aside, there's an 18 year old kid working with me -- tall strong kid -- football player material, but he came in uhhhhh, my guess.....hung over--- he normally tends to use a shovel as an arm and chin rest anyway.
I looked up after I'd taken apart and moved single handed 4 of the 6 forms, and he'd disappeared into his car today, obviously texting. I called him back and asked whatsa matter? He said he didn't feel good, had a headache, he wanted to go home. I said okay the concrete truck will be here in forty minutes, call your boss on that cell phone and tell him to send somebody else down here fast. Then I stomped back to the forms we were re-building double-time.
Strange thing, he came back in a minute or so and started doing a small amount of work -- high speed for him. I said "Is he sending somebody?" He said no, he was feeling a little better and might as well stick it out. I said okay, up to you.
I'd started at 6:30 AM -- he got to the site a half hour late at 8:30. I'll be 70 next year. I can do three times the work that kid can do.
Seventy is the new twenty, apparently!
