Thursday, August 18, 2011

Concrete Proof (Part 2 of 2): Poured!













The trucks showed up (over 4 truck-fulls in total)! But they couldn't get up the hill so the front-end loader shuttled up and down with the grey gold. The crew worked hard in today's 26C heat, but look carefully and you can see one doing the jitterbug (that thing that looks like a snow groomer)!
The propane line was being encased in concrete all the way down, like a mobster getting cement boots. Very quickly the patches of grass in the middle were entombed until some geologist in the next century discovers there used to be green!
In the meantime, another trench was being dug beside the barn, for the bottom end of the propane line. A shocker to see that the stone down here was rounded granite, while the stone up top was endless flat ledgerock. In an efficient and amazing feat, the entire 275 feet of concrete 5 inches deep was poured and pretty in about 4 hours!!
The frog?? Did I hear him say "crikey" instead of croak! I was impressed, too.

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