Most people who serve on a committee haven't ever accomplished anything that didn't involve telling someone else to do something. They are really a different bread.
Great video .I enjoy all your videos. Relate to your farming as you get ready for winter. I remember getting ready for on are small Southern Indiana farm. Back in the 50’s and 60’s we had some extremely cold winters not so much last few years. Thanks for sharing.
Nice job! How about another wall around water place from wind blowing side or double shed around it near existing one?! 😉 Maybe cows will appreciate geothermal options too and decide to hide in geothermal shelter rather than in usual one.. 😂
What?????? No hand prints or date and name in the wet concrete???? Having worked concrete once in my life, it was hard enough to make me finish college. Well done, Dave!
Always put concrete bags contents into water not the other way round so it won't form dry pockets and its far easier to mix that way as well as pour. His batches were far to to dry and should have the consistency of breakfast oatmeal not cookie dough so its Portland Cement is fully incorporated. By putting water into a hopper or wheel barrow first the concrete rolls into making it easier to mix as well as work since dry pockets aren't formed. Having fought many a concrete bag the water in first not last method is less labor than struggling to make a dry batch fully mix and is stronger result. Never be fooled into dumping dry concrete into a form or holes thinking it will be as good as a wet batch because its not since it cure in stops-starts is weaker for it..🛠
Seeing this reminds me of my father and his brothers. They had no fear of hard work, and I think hard work got a bit edgy if any of them were involved in the project.
For a low-load bearing pad like that, you can just throw the dry mix into the formed-up box and then spray water on it. It works! Saves you having to shovel all the wet mix. Works with post holes too.
Love watching your video's Dave. You may be interested in an ancient Japanese technique of preserving timber, called "Yakisugi" or "Shou Sugi Ban" Where timber is charred with fire, to help preserve it, might be of some use to you, especially for burying wooden posts in the ground. Look it up! Keep up the fantastic work! ...Cheers. Les.
I don't know, I haven't seen a man of age shovel so fast and pour concrete in less than 20 minutes! keep working like that and you will put us all out of business or make us look bad.
Dave, today I watched two younger men continue to work on a remodel job on the front of my home. They completed the framing, and then they did paper and wire for stucco, and then the rough coat of stucco, I used to be able to work like that for 8 hours or more, now I watch them and get tired! LOL, LOL!!!! So I totally get what you mean!!! I absolutely love watching you have a plan and bringing it to fruition with us tagging along! Thank you as always, Tom in Ceres, CA
HERE’S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT Sometimes I think about mixing concrete and that's about as far as it gets. Here's what I've learned over the past few years. A 10-litre bottle of water weighs 10 kilograms. When I was 60-years-old I could lift it without any difficulty. At 65-years-old that 10-litre bottle of water weighed 22 pounds and seemed a little heavier. At 70-years-old that same 10-litre bottle of water weighed 352 ounces and seemed to be quite a bit heavier. At 78-years-old that 10-litre bottle of water now weighs in at 10,000 grams and it is now way too heavy for me. Message: Sadly things don’t change, we do. I really enjoy all your channel content. Regards MM. 😀😀😀LOL
I watched you mixing that concrete in the wheelbarrow and boy! Didi it bring back memories . . . . . so many bags in that old wheelbarrow . . . and it looked JUST like yours . . . . lol . . . . . it would kill me now . . . lol
Maurice Telleen used to put pithy sayings all through the Draft Horse Journal. One that has stuck with me for 40 years was "You don't build an outhouse like a courthouse or a courthouse like an outhouse." My friend, you build even the foundation for a stock tank like a courthouse. You are such a craftsman that you do all things well.
Should put some wheels on that gate, I think you may know a wheel guy. Thanks for the video sir and yes concrete does get heavier as we get older, physics I think. Take care
I hope it isn't wrong to feel "entertained" by someone's hard work. I don't know of another word to describe the joy of watching you accomplish the improvements you make.
Do you need to add water to the geothermal tube? If I remember the joints are only taped. I'm wondering if any water has leaked out or evaporated? 💖🌞🌵😷
That is quite a lot of concrete to mix by hand. Right at the tipping point where any more really begs for a mixer and any less is doable by hand. Many moons ago I spent a couple of summers as a laborer for a brick and block company. Not quite the same thing but close enough to bring back some memories. Great video as usual
Nice job on your pad Dave. The ground heated waters work amazing, we have a few of them around our place. The cows like them in the summer too because it keeps the water nice and cool. We even have a geo thermal tube in our chicken house to bring ground heat in. I dug that one 7' deep by hand (in rocks), back before I had any equipment. The backhoe showed up soon after project 😂
Nothing like the threat of winter to get us going and doing the things that need doing before the snow flies. There always seem to more of those things than I end up having time for. Thanks for the inspiration Dave. I hope your knees don’t complain too much about the kneeling involved in smoothing out your concrete.
Terrific Dave - amazed at what you can accomplish in a day! Concrete work is quite hard, but you've made it look like child's play, which I know it's not! Great video of a man pursuing his idea of great performance on his ranch! Keep at it my friend!
How nice you can use a shovel there. Here in New England you literally can't get a shovel length into the ground before you hit a big rock and have to get the pick out for some real exercise.
Dave, I have a German relative who retired from a life of teaching ecology at a major German university. He spent 18 years of designing his dream home that required the absolute minimum of outside power or water. When the contractors poured the concrete entry porch and he came to inspect the finished product, he made them break out the porch back to the well-insulated concrete mass home floor. The reason was that the porch was a heat/cold concrete mass that could transmit heat/cold into the concrete of the home. The contractors failed to read the blueprints that had an insulation barrier between the two masses. I know it is too late but my thought is that you should have had an insulating strip around your inground barrel top. One, to keep cold from reaching the barrel, and two, concrete will eat a barrel. Plus, we did not see you put your name and the date for some future archeologists to find.
The heat sink works both ways - If he puts insulation on the outside of the pad (down a few feet) the ground tube will warm the slab and work in his favor.
Do you think that the ground or now the slab is acting as a "cold" sink? Sucking up the cold from the frozen ground and cooling down the water tank while the deep hole beneath frost is trying to heat it? If so, would it help to dig down around the perimeter of your slab and insert some rigid foam on edge to isolate the slab from the frozen ground? Might be a quick and easy job with a good payback especially in the subzero times.
Looking good Dave, lots of things happening around the water shed. Making it sturdy so it lasts a lot longer and will withstand gentle bumps and pushes from the steers around the feeding and loading pens. It will really be nice once you get it set and finished in time for the snows to start falling and the winds a blowing in the drifts. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.
Oh come on you guys. The only thing hard about concrete work is that it is heavy. So, if you are not used to it, it seems hard. I have done lots of concrete work over my years. I will tell you, for me, the hardest job I ever had was a UPS route driver. I was 27y.o., 6 ft. tall, and 190 lbs. when I started. I lost 25 pounds the first week. On my route I was expected to make 20 stops per hour. Now, that is stops, not number of packages. So, if you have a lot of packages at several stops, you have to hustle to make up for lost time. We were required to keep the next five stops in your head at all times. The supervisor would ride along ever so often to verify all of this. You had 14 seconds from the time the wheels quit moving to exit the vehicle with the correct package/s for that stop. And during that time, you had to pull up the parking break, undo your seat belt, stand, unlock and open the package compartment door, grab the correct package while looking at the next packages to keep that rolling list of stops in your head, close and lock the package compartment door, grab your clipboard, and step out. Notice that you never see an overweight UPS driver. You will see some overweight concrete workers though. I am 68 now, and still do not mind concrete work.
Mr. Engels, What is that thing you are using at about 7:00 min in the vid? It seems a strange item. Few people now would even know what to do with it. You, however, seem to be well acquainted with it. I looked on Google and found out it is called a "shovel" hmmmm. A hold over from your younger days???? That looked like a good place to try out "dry pouring the concrete". Look at Cajun livin or whatever they call it. Boy are you gonna sleep tonight. God Bless!!!!!
I think Dave and Diane qualify as American Treasures.
It’s not the concrete, it’s the knees. Concrete didn’t used to be so low.
Dave, you have NO idea how much you getting stuck in, motivates me to get off my butt,-- and get goin' --in BERMUDA :)
“It’s hard enough” sums it up. ;)
It never fails to amaze me what man can do while a committee struggles to get their act together before work can even begin!
Most people who serve on a committee haven't ever accomplished anything that didn't involve telling someone else to do something. They are really a different bread.
A committee is a group of the unwilling picked by the unfit to do the unnecessary.
A committee of one is the King of his Castle. Always a better option. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
That’s why government works so well !
18:00 I'm amusing it's an optical allusion because it's on a hill, but that post does not look plumb.
Dave, concrete work is always hard no matter the age of the worker. You did a great job. Love seeing your extra jobs after work.
Great video .I enjoy all your videos. Relate to your farming as you get ready for winter. I remember getting ready for on are small Southern Indiana farm. Back in the 50’s and 60’s we had some extremely cold winters not so much last few years. Thanks for sharing.
I don't know about that. I found it a breeze when I was 14.
Concrete work is HARD - no matter how old you are !! I would have added a little more water to my mix, Dave....?
Nice job!
How about another wall around water place from wind blowing side or double shed around it near existing one?! 😉 Maybe cows will appreciate geothermal options too and decide to hide in geothermal shelter rather than in usual one.. 😂
You know what they say about concrete people. They're all mixed up and set in their ways.
Tip of the day: Concrete is much easier to mix with a hoe than a shovel.
Workin' concrete sucks no matter how old you are. Time for a hot shower and a cool drink, Dave. Nice job as always.
i see ya got the integrated mixer/transporter for your concrete work.
U and ur family blessed to live in the quiet of montana...I not so blessed..
I'm impressed...I thought ranchers only finished concrete with scoop shovels 😂
What??????
No hand prints or date and name in the wet concrete????
Having worked concrete once in my life, it was hard enough to make me finish college.
Well done, Dave!
Not only a wheelwright, carpenter, upholstery, cattle rancher, mechanic, welder ... also a concrete worker.
Perfection is the Enemy of Good Enough and Done. Great job.
Always put concrete bags contents into water not the other way round so it won't form dry pockets and its far easier to mix that way as well as pour. His batches were far to to dry and should have the consistency of breakfast oatmeal not cookie dough so its Portland Cement is fully incorporated. By putting water into a hopper or wheel barrow first the concrete rolls into making it easier to mix as well as work since dry pockets aren't formed. Having fought many a concrete bag the water in first not last method is less labor than struggling to make a dry batch fully mix and is stronger result. Never be fooled into dumping dry concrete into a form or holes thinking it will be as good as a wet batch because its not since it cure in stops-starts is weaker for it..🛠
Seeing this reminds me of my father and his brothers. They had no fear of hard work, and I think hard work got a bit edgy if any of them were involved in the project.
For a low-load bearing pad like that, you can just throw the dry mix into the formed-up box and then spray water on it. It works! Saves you having to shovel all the wet mix. Works with post holes too.
Did that with my treated 4x6 posts and wood fence extension to fit existing. Worked rather well.
You might have missed the part about how he is going to put a water tank on the slab..... a bit more than "low load", just saying
Dave, I always enjoy your outside projects. It's good to get out of the "office" and like my Dad always said, "let the stink blow off..."
Dave, at our age, everything is harder, but we have to keep at it. Say hello to Diane.
Hello Gil.
Love watching your video's Dave. You may be interested in an ancient Japanese technique of preserving timber, called "Yakisugi" or "Shou Sugi Ban" Where timber is charred with fire, to help preserve it, might be of some use to you, especially for burying wooden posts in the ground. Look it up! Keep up the fantastic work! ...Cheers. Les.
Yep, that is my kind of FUN!!! Thanks D & D~~
13 bags mixed by hand? I am tired just thinking about it. Thank you for a great movie. Jim
And, Hello Diane.
Hello
I don't know, I haven't seen a man of age shovel so fast and pour concrete in less than 20 minutes! keep working like that and you will put us all out of business or make us look bad.
Dave, today I watched two younger men continue to work on a remodel job on the front of my home. They completed the framing, and then they did paper and wire for stucco, and then the rough coat of stucco, I used to be able to work like that for 8 hours or more, now I watch them and get tired! LOL, LOL!!!! So I totally get what you mean!!! I absolutely love watching you have a plan and bringing it to fruition with us tagging along! Thank you as always, Tom in Ceres, CA
Concreting was easier and the floor seems to get further away as time goes bye. Weird. But some how you still get it done.❤️
Winter proofing is so good when finished
It's nice to see someone who knows not to put too much water in the concrete, especially in the cold Montana winters. It was a beautiful job!
HERE’S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
Sometimes I think about mixing concrete and that's about as far as it gets. Here's what I've learned over the past few years.
A 10-litre bottle of water weighs 10 kilograms. When I was 60-years-old I could lift it without any difficulty.
At 65-years-old that 10-litre bottle of water weighed 22 pounds and seemed a little heavier.
At 70-years-old that same 10-litre bottle of water weighed 352 ounces and seemed to be quite a bit heavier.
At 78-years-old that 10-litre bottle of water now weighs in at 10,000 grams and it is now way too heavy for me.
Message: Sadly things don’t change, we do.
I really enjoy all your channel content. Regards MM. 😀😀😀LOL
Very well done job on that base and the fence.
Setting posts brings back memories I am 73 now and have been through much of what you are doing now I could not do that any more
Concrete work was hard when I was sixteen. It never got any easier. 🙂🙂
Some pretty if sparse landscape you live in out from the shop/ town .
It would be interesting to do a little travel video at some point
Stay safe and we'll see you next time.
I watched you mixing that concrete in the wheelbarrow and boy! Didi it bring back memories . . . . . so many bags in that old wheelbarrow . . . and it looked JUST like yours . . . . lol . . . . . it would kill me now . . . lol
Maurice Telleen used to put pithy sayings all through the Draft Horse Journal. One that has stuck with me for 40 years was "You don't build an outhouse like a courthouse or a courthouse like an outhouse." My friend, you build even the foundation for a stock tank like a courthouse. You are such a craftsman that you do all things well.
That’s a good afternoon job.
Aw, you have a baby rake. How cute. LOL. It sure was the right tool for that job. 👍👍👍
Yes Dave messing with concrete is never an easy job ..
Looking ok ..get all those jobs done befor that white stuff arrives.
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Mixing and pouring concrete is hard work. As we get older it gets harder.
Should put some wheels on that gate, I think you may know a wheel guy. Thanks for the video sir and yes concrete does get heavier as we get older, physics I think. Take care
Great job wit the concrete, especially when it's hand mixed a sack at a time. Looked a might stiff, but came along in the end. Nice job.
Memories of concrete work I did in the past. Marshalltown is your friend. Stay well.
Steve from Circle
Yes it is very good very good video thank you Angels.
it sounds a little windy, but the view is awsome .hello from Maine
I hope it isn't wrong to feel "entertained" by someone's hard work. I don't know of another word to describe the joy of watching you accomplish the improvements you make.
Do you need to add water to the geothermal tube? If I remember the joints are only taped. I'm wondering if any water has leaked out or evaporated? 💖🌞🌵😷
Another great video, thanks, Dave! I so appreciate a guy who understands that wet concrete equals weak concrete!
Nothing seems harder when we were younger. Now your body says please do that again 😊
Getting old is really not what I was told when young. I guess we all have to learn by our selves. You’re doing a good job . Keep up the good work !😊👴🏻
I could do concrete when I was in my 50's, but now at 73 I ask my kids to help out. Great job Dave. George in Helena
Yeah, concrete work is always hard! Very nice job, Sir
Once again thanks for the video.
That is quite a lot of concrete to mix by hand. Right at the tipping point where any more really begs for a mixer and any less is doable by hand. Many moons ago I spent a couple of summers as a laborer for a brick and block company. Not quite the same thing but close enough to bring back some memories. Great video as usual
Mixing with a slump of
Nice job on your pad Dave. The ground heated waters work amazing, we have a few of them around our place. The cows like them in the summer too because it keeps the water nice and cool. We even have a geo thermal tube in our chicken house to bring ground heat in. I dug that one 7' deep by hand (in rocks), back before I had any equipment. The backhoe showed up soon after project 😂
Nothing like the threat of winter to get us going and doing the things that need doing before the snow flies. There always seem to more of those things than I end up having time for. Thanks for the inspiration Dave. I hope your knees don’t complain too much about the kneeling involved in smoothing out your concrete.
Thanks Dave
"Age shall not weary them".....yeah, that's a crock!
Terrific Dave - amazed at what you can accomplish in a day! Concrete work is quite hard, but you've made it look like child's play, which I know it's not! Great video of a man pursuing his idea of great performance on his ranch! Keep at it my friend!
Those were nice stiff mixes - concrete work us back breaking! Great Video!
Old scrap metal for reinforcement and tamped with a shovel: proper farmer concrete. That's not going anywhere.
How nice you can use a shovel there. Here in New England you literally can't get a shovel length into the ground before you hit a big rock and have to get the pick out for some real exercise.
Well Done!
Dave, I have a German relative who retired from a life of teaching ecology at a major German university. He spent 18 years of designing his dream home that required the absolute minimum of outside power or water. When the contractors poured the concrete entry porch and he came to inspect the finished product, he made them break out the porch back to the well-insulated concrete mass home floor. The reason was that the porch was a heat/cold concrete mass that could transmit heat/cold into the concrete of the home. The contractors failed to read the blueprints that had an insulation barrier between the two masses. I know it is too late but my thought is that you should have had an insulating strip around your inground barrel top. One, to keep cold from reaching the barrel, and two, concrete will eat a barrel. Plus, we did not see you put your name and the date for some future archeologists to find.
Not to late,that is if he wants to do some chipping . Enjoyed watching and feeling tired at the end.
The heat sink works both ways - If he puts insulation on the outside of the pad (down a few feet) the ground tube will warm the slab and work in his favor.
Thanks
I was just thinking how hard you work while i was lazy watching you work hard...
I've done alot of hand mixing and I even have a red wheelbarrow
That finish is smoother than my walls. 😆
Yes, concrete work is hard. Especially at our age my friend.
You are an amazing young man for your age 🙂
Dave, you are such a hard worker 😮! You put most people to shame. Very well done and thank you for showing your after work projects. You amaze me
Good job Dave. The last concrete I coulda used, I opted to put down 1"X12" pavers as good enough for the SC weather.
Thanks for sharing.
Blessings
Do you think that the ground or now the slab is acting as a "cold" sink? Sucking up the cold from the frozen ground and cooling down the water tank while the deep hole beneath frost is trying to heat it? If so, would it help to dig down around the perimeter of your slab and insert some rigid foam on edge to isolate the slab from the frozen ground? Might be a quick and easy job with a good payback especially in the subzero times.
Greetings
Good job Dave. Sounds like you have all the jobs lined up and ready to complete. Looking forward to seeing the results. Stay safe.
Concrete is hard. LOL
Looking good Dave, lots of things happening around the water shed. Making it sturdy so it lasts a lot longer and will withstand gentle bumps and pushes from the steers around the feeding and loading pens. It will really be nice once you get it set and finished in time for the snows to start falling and the winds a blowing in the drifts. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.
Nice work Dave , ❤ Diane you did some great editing 🎉 also .❤
Diane ⚘
Bravo Dave!
14:30 Dave is a much better woodworker than concrete guy, lol.
Looks like new tires on the back of the FarmAll. They sure are getting pricey!
You're last comment struck me funny I was thinking . I like the way you worked that. You made it "look" simple. And I have done a fair bit.
I learned the hard way, you don't do concrete, concrete does you.
Right
Not bad ⚡️
Nice wheelbarrow with a solid wheel and plastic hub!
I couldn’t help but notice the plastic spokes on the wheel barrow. I think wooden spikes would give it a very classy look.
yep, here again.
You have more work then time ! Hahahaha God bless you .
Oh come on you guys. The only thing hard about concrete work is that it is heavy. So, if you are not used to it, it seems hard. I have done lots of concrete work over my years. I will tell you, for me, the hardest job I ever had was a UPS route driver. I was 27y.o., 6 ft. tall, and 190 lbs. when I started. I lost 25 pounds the first week. On my route I was expected to make 20 stops per hour. Now, that is stops, not number of packages. So, if you have a lot of packages at several stops, you have to hustle to make up for lost time. We were required to keep the next five stops in your head at all times. The supervisor would ride along ever so often to verify all of this. You had 14 seconds from the time the wheels quit moving to exit the vehicle with the correct package/s for that stop. And during that time, you had to pull up the parking break, undo your seat belt, stand, unlock and open the package compartment door, grab the correct package while looking at the next packages to keep that rolling list of stops in your head, close and lock the package compartment door, grab your clipboard, and step out. Notice that you never see an overweight UPS driver. You will see some overweight concrete workers though. I am 68 now, and still do not mind concrete work.
I have found that a good metal garden hoe works great for mixing concrete.
Concrete work is always hard. Just remember, do it once a year to remind yourself how easy you have it with your day job 😂
good job!
I'd have used the bucket on the bobcat to mix my concrete thinking I would get a larger mix
I’ve noticed repeat projects are harder. Especially when they are years apart. Faulty memory? Or …
Mr. Engels, What is that thing you are using at about 7:00 min in the vid? It seems a strange item. Few people now would even know what to do with it. You, however, seem to be well
acquainted with it. I looked on Google and found out it is called a "shovel" hmmmm. A hold over from your younger days????
That looked like a good place to try out "dry pouring the concrete". Look at Cajun livin or whatever they call it.
Boy are you gonna sleep tonight. God Bless!!!!!
❤❤
Dave, I might be wrong but, i swear that background tune is a French Pop tune from the 80's J'en ai merre ...... lol