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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Went back and tried again, soil on this side was remarkably easy to drill. The fence posts I had set before were quite alot more work as I hit wet clay about a foot down and it just gummed up the bit and sent it into an out of balance frenzy. Sank it to the cover, bit is 3 1/2 Ft long. )</font>
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Larstan, Your going to have to reload your last batch of pictures due to a server "Glitch" I just did mine and now they work, click edit on your post to reload pics....
Wow after posting all those pics , Ya have to do it again I guess that just kinda goes with the way your day started out... )</font>
As you can see the day finished like it started, I had to repost everything sorry for the hassle the edit function had already timed out...... /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
Wow after posting all those pics , Ya have to do it again I guess that just kinda goes with the way your day started out... )</font>
As you can see the day finished like it started, I had to repost everything sorry for the hassle the edit function had already timed out...... /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
I went with a premix called Sakrete, 4K PSI. 3 foot holes drilled from the outside diagonally under beam and then widened by hand to the inside, think inverted [A]. This is upside down from what Harv suggested but I do not have the auger length to go the other way, also each hole took 7 - 60lb bags or 2 mixer loads. I was mixing 4 bags per load in the mixer, not sure if that was a full 1/3 yard but that was all I could handle by myself dumping to a 5 gal bucket. I used 36 bags total for the North wall or 9 mixer loads which theoretically is 3 yards of concrete all by my lonesome /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif needless to say I was beat by the end of the day. When I did the math on the mixer loads I was a little put out because it sure felt like I did about 20 loads. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I was mixing 4 bags per load in the mixer, not sure if that was a full 1/3 yard but that was all I could handle by myself dumping to a 5 gal bucket. I used 36 bags total for the North wall or 9 mixer loads which theoretically is 3 yards of concrete all by my lonesome needless to say I was beat by the end of the day. When I did the math on the mixer loads I was a little put out because it sure felt like I did about 20 loads. )</font>
I can feel your pain. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
But if those bags are eighty pounders as they appear to me each bag makes six tenths of a cubic foot of concrete. That means your net concrete is twenty one and a half cubic feet mixed and poured. There are twenty seven cubic feet to a yard.
Dispensing it in a five gallon bucket will wear one slick. Even if one has the world's greatest front loader there are times when a good wheelbarrow is the only appropriate tool. I would highly recommend one in your circumstances.
Fencemen mix their concrete on small jobs in the wheelbarrow. They layer their material in. Five shovel fulls of sand and gravel, one shovel full of portland cement. Then the material is mixed with a shovel as required.
On some jobs we use sacrete. Six eighty pound bags to a six cubic foot wheelbarrow (it's heaping dry but less than full wet). There are forty five bags to a pallet. I'm old now. But in my prime I've put two pallets through a wheelbarrow in a day by myself. That's mixed wet concrete mixed with a shovel in a wheelbarrow.
Mixing concrete in a wheelbarrow with a shovel is fifty percent effort and seventy percent skill if you're doing it right. If you're not accustomed to doing it the ratio is hundred and ten percent effort, ten percent skill. It's one of those things where a pro makes it look so very easy. I learned from the best, my father.
I can feel your pain. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
But if those bags are eighty pounders as they appear to me each bag makes six tenths of a cubic foot of concrete. That means your net concrete is twenty one and a half cubic feet mixed and poured. There are twenty seven cubic feet to a yard.
Dispensing it in a five gallon bucket will wear one slick. Even if one has the world's greatest front loader there are times when a good wheelbarrow is the only appropriate tool. I would highly recommend one in your circumstances.
Fencemen mix their concrete on small jobs in the wheelbarrow. They layer their material in. Five shovel fulls of sand and gravel, one shovel full of portland cement. Then the material is mixed with a shovel as required.
On some jobs we use sacrete. Six eighty pound bags to a six cubic foot wheelbarrow (it's heaping dry but less than full wet). There are forty five bags to a pallet. I'm old now. But in my prime I've put two pallets through a wheelbarrow in a day by myself. That's mixed wet concrete mixed with a shovel in a wheelbarrow.
Mixing concrete in a wheelbarrow with a shovel is fifty percent effort and seventy percent skill if you're doing it right. If you're not accustomed to doing it the ratio is hundred and ten percent effort, ten percent skill. It's one of those things where a pro makes it look so very easy. I learned from the best, my father.