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Ditto the "looks good" comments! Well done!If this was a Big D project we'd see you hauling a batch plant in on a trailer and setting that up! Ha!
Mixer is HF 3 1/2 cu ft. On sale and with a coupon was less than$200. It barely mixes two 80 on bags. Perfect mix is one 80 and one 60. 3 1/2 is completely upright volume which is worthless as a measurement. So far so good. I've estimated that I have mixed about 3.5 yards of concrete total. And yes. My total red neck engineering. No YouTube. Got the inside form on the down hill side done today. Will take 20 bags of #80 to finish. The walls and base are 5 1/2 inch thick. It will give me 19ft between the culverts that will handle an H25 load. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ha. Don you hold your own my friend. It just takes me a whole lot longer with my dinky tractor I'd get a lot more done if I was retired. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Very nice, where are the pics of the broken equipment like in Big D's thread?
yesterday i got a lesson in fence building....thank you Youtube, Mother Earth News and other sites.Put the post auger on the tractor and marked the fence line (50ft from center of the road) and put up a sting. Its difficult to get the hole exactly where you want it with an auger. Its more like getting it in the same zip code....and the auger will only effectively reach down 3 ft, when I need a 4 ft deep hole. enter the old fashioned post hole digger....and enter shoulder soreness this morning as a major slap in the face that I aint the boy I was in my teens that could rock a post hole digger for hours in the heat....So in go the posts and I used a 3/4 iron pipe with a cap on the end as my tamper for the backfill, adding a few inches at a time and tamping solidly. Posts are rock solid thanks to heavy clay soil.In any event I now have the posts in the ground at each end for the classic H frame configuration. Next up will be to add the horizontal portion and start stringing wire. I think I will buy a T post popper to go with the fence stretcher so I can reuse the posts in the section of fence I am taking down. Pics to come next week.
Thanks Don,Getting it to bite is not the problem (in my clay soil with no rocks). If anything I have to remember to pull out every foot or so or it will screw all the way in to the heavy clay and shear a pin ( been there, done that). My issues is getting it located exactly where I want the hole and then because the arc of the arm, it never creates a perfectly vertical hole, its a slight angle so the bottom of a 3 1/2 ft hole the bottom can be off vertical by 5-6 inches.I like accuracy....this auger is the equivalent of a 4 moa rifle. Good enough but not going to punch the same hole in the same location twice.....