how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[Workshop]

Yep. Everybody’s an expert when it comes to you doing the job. I had a guy criticizing my work once when I was a mechanic. I had barely got started so I put his wheels and tires back on his truck, put it on the ground and backed out of the shop. He asked me what I was doing? I told him he was such an expert he could take it home and work on it himself.

I have to ad that he profusely apologized, went in to the waiting room and stayed while I worked on his truck.

 

[Only the Tony]

Put a safe room under the house as well. And figured out the placement of all my floor joists before the pour. Those anchor bolts are tied to the upper rebar that wraps the entire pour and that in turn is tied to upright rebar in the footing. It ain't coming apart.

 

[Sawdust Man]

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Put a safe room under the house as well. And figured out the placement of all my floor joists before the pour. Those anchor bolts are tied to the upper rebar that wraps the entire pour and that in turn is tied to upright rebar in the footing. It ain't coming apart.

There were a few days this summer I wished I had one of those things under the house to hide in for a few hours...

 

[Hedgerow]

I’ve always looked at concrete as simple mud mitigation...

Other than displacing mud, it’s all subjective as to what you need it to do.

 

[moparnut88]

Okay so that’s 2 slabs poured recently.
@Hedgerow
@Sawdust Man

So is rebar a thing of the past?

i used rebar in my house pad with floor heat, it cracked very bad i was gonna run both rebar and glass but was talked out of it. i ran glass only on my aprons outside and my d7 has been on the pads and it has less cracks even without rebar. it def has a place

 

[Hedgerow]

i used rebar in my house pad with floor heat, it cracked very bad i was gonna run both rebar and glass but was talked out of it. i ran glass only on my aprons outside and my d7 has been on the pads and it has less cracks even without rebar. it def has a place

My FIL was a concrete guy for green county.

He always told me the most important part of concrete was what was under it.

He made me dig the footings for our house 4’ deep on one end and 3’ deep on the other.
County spec is only 18” here. But he didn’t like the soil mix he was seeing, and wanted to get down to something more stable with a clay/rock mix. We started calling him overkill bill, but he knew what he was looking for I guess..

 

[nbbt]

Good morning folks. Time for a morning trip around / through the city. Did I remember to mention that I don't like rush hour driving!

 

[Sawdust Man]

Good morning folks. Time for a morning trip around / through the city. Did I remember to mention that I don't like rush hour driving!

Yeah, we got into some rush hour traffic last night on the way home, I could see close to a dozen vehicles at one time....had to wait like 19 seconds at the four way stop.....lol

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.

 

[nbbt]

Yeah, we got into some rush hour traffic last night on the way home, I could see close to a dozen vehicles at one time....had to wait like 19 seconds at the four way stop.....lol

Wow, it was the least eventful rush hour drive that I can remember.
All is better with this day for the time being.

 

[67L36Driver]

Please enlighten me…..breadfruit?

Made me ask Siri.



The fellow (and a bunch of his kin) is from American Samoa, a protectorate. Thus they are American citizens .

 

[Sawdust Man]

Evidently honey bees like oak sawdust pretty well... little buggers wouldn't let me saw lumber this afternoon....

 

[WoodAbuser]

Evidently honey bees like oak sawdust pretty well... little buggers wouldn't let me saw lumber this afternoon....View attachment 396154

Honey Bunches of Oaks?

 

[Sawdust Man]

Honey Bunches of Oaks?

Maybe....

 

[WoodAbuser]

 

[nbbt]

Good morning folks, and humpday at that. Nice temps for this time of the year 40 going to about 50 depending where I'm going to be during this day.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Eighty-stupid-three alleged for today.... happy November....

 

[Fishnuts2]

My FIL was a concrete guy for green county.

He always told me the most important part of concrete was what was under it.

He made me dig the footings for our house 4’ deep on one end and 3’ deep on the other.
County spec is only 18” here. But he didn’t like the soil mix he was seeing, and wanted to get down to something more stable with a clay/rock mix. We started calling him overkill bill, but he knew what he was looking for I guess..

The only way to learn that is by experience, and it sounds like he had plenty of it.

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.

 

[Workshop]

Stopped by the house this afternoon. I see they have removed the dumpster and the portapotty.
Hopefully finishing touches are about to happen.