My Bin is Collapsing
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2022
- Me: fills bin once
Bin: collapses
Are we throwing caution for no reason, or do we have an actual problem?
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Hey Cole, my father and I were in the concrete business for over 40 years. We poured many bin pads for farmers over the years and this is an absolute botched job. Call a structural engineer immediately! Call your attorney immediately! Call your banker immediately! Empty the bin out completely to get the weight off the pad. Sadly for you and the Cornstar Family, you have some major headaches coming your way. Safety first and then unleash the attorneys. Someone is going to pay for a new bin and pad...and it's not you! Best of luck
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Very good advice. Really hope they make it right with there farms that's no way to run a buisness
Cornstar family you guys are not safe around those bins. Daddy cornstar stay off those ladders. I pray you guys can get your harvest done with no injuries. RIP all the work thos clowns did on those new bins. I hope you didn't pay for that botched bin site. Nice to see Neve helping you guys. Happy birthday Cooper. Your Maverick is adorable and his fur looks like our daughter Corgi puppy Tucker. Hey Cole you need a black lab puppy. They are the best farm dogs. Faithful and loyal. Be safe gang.
I am truely shocked how poorly they built the bin site. I hate it for them. The pain everyday they go through is too much. I hope you sue them and have a competent company fix this mess.
It seems strange to me to have a giant cement circle pad but the legs of the hopper only contact it on the very outside edge. Is that normal? Seems like it would distribute weight on the pad improperly.
Concreter from Australia,
Once you start getting elevation changes in the slab its over. Best to run the bin empty or very low and find a way to secure the bin or take it down. Especially since there has been major changes in the cracks and elevation of the slab in just over a day
man I have binge watched all 4-5 years of this content... now I am rewatching it... Thank You Cole, DC, Cooper, Nave, and Momma Cornstar... I have truely enjoyed watching your journey in farming/life!
I used to be a structural engineer for another bin manufacturer and half the time we were called out to inspect failing bins it was because of poor foundations. My recommendation would be that in order to prevent damage to your hopper & machinery don't use it until you can get that foundation shored up. If this is your first time using the hopper then some settling is expected, but those cracks expanding and going as deep as they are is definitely a structural problem.
Spend all that hard earn money million dollars I believe it was and having all these problems don't sound right keep on keeping on
Yep, those aren't superficial cosmetic cracks. They're showing fundamental design and/or build shortcomings.
He's exaggerating
I sincerely hope that there is a good solution for your bin problems. I hope your attorneys can help make things right for your family.
Your dad found something loose topside on the stairs that could prove to be fatal for someone if that isn’t repaired properly. I love each of you and I don’t want anything to happen to your family. My prayers are with you all.
Civil Engineer here. The foundation is in failure. Suspect a combination of engineering design as well as construction issues. I recall some of the concrete was poured in record hot weather - if provisions not made (ice in the mix for example), it could harden before it had a chance to cure and reach design strength. Also the concrete crew could have weakened the mix by adding water to increase workability - common problem. Look at the plans to see how deep thick that pad was and compare to the pad you struggled to remove from the old hopper bottom site - that will be quite telling. Also, I hope they took soil core samples before designing the foundations but I suspect that was missed as well. Foundations are the key to a successful project - the Millennium tower in San Francisco settled 18 inches on one corner and is at risk of toppling over, so sometimes even major design firms get it wrong.
I've been a licensed Architect for 30 years and I've never seen or used FIBERGLASS REBAR before. I had to look it up. It's legit but the design values and best practices are different that conventional steel rear.
I would have expected deep soil replacement with compacted hardcore and way more rebar in there, but the American code is different than Europe. I suspect all the slab foundations are compromised meaning a complete rebuild. The work was done after destructive weather, so local contractors would have been stretched, and some will sadly make shortcuts.
Millennial Towers was built without pylons on a former landfill.
also the rebar reinforcement on this bin/pad should have been near the top of the slab, and is most likely at the bottom. But 18" to 24" sonotubes under each column extending below frost probably should have been the design. Hopefully not design build type deal
@@tedb.5707 At least the fiberglass wont rust when the water gets in the cracks.
I'm just amazed how calm he can stay with more and more HUGE issues coming up every minute
There's not much they can do besides stay calm. It's not like getting angry will make the concrete fuse back together.
After so many issues its normally not other persons faults. Hopefully can use these as a learning experience at least.
I would be so frustrated and stressed 😅
It ain't our problem
I actually got a little tear in my eye when you first showed the cracks and the wobbly ladder 😢
I just can’t believe it.
On a lighter note 🎉🎉happy birthday Cooper🎉🎉
Once water gets in those cracks and freezes, it'll be even worse! That'll start happening anytime now... The longer this goes on, and the more of the complete disaster the bin site is is shown to us, I'd say you're basically going to have to tear it all down and redo the whole thing. You guys are pretty brave/crazy to be climbing on those bins too! The amount of missing bolts, loose things and broken welds is FARRRRR from safe.
Thermal change, everything moves
Take it from an old copper smith.
The bins may be fine but they are going to have to at least redo the catwalks and all of the ladders.
@@dennyrook1470 not like that, not with structural concrete this thick... it not the same as 6 inch slab
honestly I think thats all a moot point now....., those foundations will need to be tore out and repoured. theres no salvaging that the pad is shifting.
I could not possibly be more concerned for your safety than I am after watching this. Some excellent, intelligent comments below that should help you. I will be praying for you all..for your safety, and for this to be resolved to your satisfaction.
Most of the comments here are spot on. In addition, it wouldn't surprise me if that pad was designed (assuming they didn't just wing it) for a regular bin and not the point loads of a hopper bottom. I would also worry if the concrete moves enough, the legs on that bin will get out of plane and could fail. Kind of like the old soda can analogy..... if you push straight down on an empty soda can, it holds a surprising amount of weight, but as soon as you have any side loading, everything crumples and it's over.
Have a core sample drilled and sent for concrete strength analysis. Get a report from a 3rd party on the strength.
I own a concrete restoration company. That slab has failed but its not a free floating slab, the only reason it's not lifting more is the rebar that ties it together. Definitely not safe to hold a load. Where are the samples tested by the lab? What was the psi at 28 days and 56 days? What was the spec on the plans. Yes concrete can develop spider cracks for multiple reasons. Let's say from not wetc reasons. Let's say from not wet curing properly. Those are surface cracks. What u have are structural cracking through the full depth of the slab. Anything over the thickness of your nail needs to be repaired. Think yours will need to be re-poured.
100% agreed brother.
yep it screams a complete and royal fubar. Thats so bad I bet they didn't bother with 28 or 56 day tests. If they did the rebar work was beyond terrible or they did not prepare the sub surface properly at all and the slabs are sinking unevenly cracking the concrete and shearing the rebar.
I come from the electric part of construction. Inspectors can sometimes be flat out dicks but they inspect. Cole lives in the land of do what you want when you want. I feel bad for him but for a million bucks a project manager would have been money well spent.
It has to be re done all the way to the ground it wasn't prepped right. And that footer on the hopper bottom need to be like 3 foot thick. Your talking a million plus pounds we had stamping presses where I use to work and the floors for them was at least 24 inch thick and a ton of rebar. nor no 1/2" eight.
@@loganholmberg2295 one other this is if I recall they used fiberglass rebar. not as strong as steel.
Concrete guy here 30yrs exp. Those cracks are definitely structural and your doing the right thing emptying that bin. If they weren’t so bad and didn’t go all the way through I’d say gravity feed epoxy into them but with all the weight they are holding in my opinion it needs to be taken out and re-done.
I’m a realtor and I know that concrete is toast whomever built that pad it’s almost like they didn’t use rebar and the wrong concrete mix
Eric Isom have you ever used fiberglass rods and are they comparable to rebar?
@@JamSession1221 I’m going with bad mix as well.
it locks to be to muths sand in the mix
No not in Florida. They may be a good product idk…and using Flyash isn’t detrimental to the final strength. Again those are settlement cracks and I don’t care if they used twice the steel if you load the pad but the ground under it is not suitable and is lets that slab settle unevenly it’s gonna bust that slab
Happy birthday Cooper🎉
Hopefully you will get the help you need to get these problems fixed and will all pray for you guys.
You don’t need a concrete guy you need an engineer and an attorney
That whole bin site is an absolute dumpster fire just waiting to collapse at any moment. Any time any of you have to climb up to the top, especially when the weld literally broke off when your dad was up there, scares the crap out of me. And I'm not the one that has to climb up there! If that is the 'quality' of work that company does, then I hope the whole damn operation is taken down. You cannot be the only ones that company has screwed over.
i am just a dumb carpenter, i agree tear it down and start over. there are probably more problems just waiting to show themselves.
When DC shook that ladder !
I wouldn't be able to put up with all the bird crap that was all over everything even on the ground. Isn't there decoys and solutions to keep birds from sitting in places like that? I don't think I see crap all over Larson farms or millennial farmer's bin site. Add in all the crappy work its just crazy someone would put this kinda of finished product out to such a public figure like this family.
Safety first!
The contracter insurance needs to look at at .
*_H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y, C O O P E R_* ! 🎂
Hang in there, Cornstars. You've got an army of supporters out here praying for you, thinking of you, and ready to help where we can.
Happy birthday Coop! Praying for the struggle to get easier. Blessings
Cole, after seeing this, I remembered watching the videos of the foundations being set, and questioning a few things to myself then. Take the FRP rebar for instance.
Tyler ley has a video on it.
As the saying goes, they don't make anything like they used to. It took me hours of hammer time to remove a small portion of my stave silo foundation, everything was built to last back then.
How they did such a bad job on the bin site knowing it would be all over UA-cam is beyond me. People all over seeing the terrible job they did. They could have gotten free advertising for doing a great job…
Have a concrete testing company come out and do a core to run a psi test on your concrete. A good testing company should also be able to give a design mix of the concrete. Looking at the vid, which may be deceptive, it looks like a high fly ash content and that will make your concrete weaker. Adding fly ash can help give a longer truck life and finishing time but it's not good for the end strength. Have it tested and good luck to you all!
It should have been tested out of every truck and verified proper psi before putting a load on it, but yes he should have it core tested before demo for legal reasons. To prove the mix was bad, if it was. Could be other issues, not being thick enough, improper compaction on the soil.
The tickets from when they delivered the mud will have the mix design and strength listed.
I haul concrete for a living and I agree with you I would also get in touch with the concrete company that the contractor used and get a copy of the order it will tell you what the mix and slump request was and if water was added on site and how much it look a like a 89 stone mix and perhaps poured way to wet as-well as a low psi mix which is not a mix for this kind of application a 3000 psi 89 mix is ok for a side walk or a driveway that isn’t going to have a heavy vehicle on it but in something like this it should of been a 57 stone 5000 psi at no more then a 4 inch slump with a low to no fly ash added and I’d even go with a 1.5 commercial fiber added at the minimum being the weight of the structure it’s going to be holding up
I help teach certified inspection technicians for my states DOT and also have several years of experience testing concrete and soil compaction. My boss and good friend does investigative testing for similar legal disputes. Though it's costs up front, I would always recommend having tests done during construction of something this big!
Definitely need to get in touch with an engineering company and have some cores taken plus any other tests that may be needed before you do anything else to the site!
@@stang10189 rember this was no top company a local 1 what said it could do it alarm bells ring to me that but cole went with the shady lot
Happy Birthday Cooper! Many prayers for y'all. I can't believe the mess y'all have.
Happy Birthday Cooper!! I now can’t handle seeing Daddy Cornstar climbing up and around those bins!! To everyone please be careful!!
Hey Cole, you need to empty that bin asap! I’m a journeyman millwright of 25 years, that concrete work is not good. I’d have to look back at your previous build videos, but if memory serves me, when your contractor was building those pads I was thinking there was not enough rebar matting in the footings/pads. Also, it’s very evident that the footings are not big enough for the loads imposed upon them. It really comes down to the psi of the concrete and it’s cure rate over time. Get in touch with a structural engineer for their expert analysis of the situation first. Then, contact your lawyer’s. I’m sorry you are going through this.
Cole, I sure am glad you have so much video on how things were done there, I only wish you would have had a full time lapse from start to finish. It's so sad to see how many things were done either very poorly or out right wrong on a Million Dollar project. I surely hope that the Attorneys your working with have the knowledge to get you the necessary resolution needed to get these items corrected and working to the contract specifications. BTW Happy Birthday Cooper, and nice to see Hneiva today as well. As always THANK YOU ALL for bringing us along on your journeys.
My heart just breaks for you guys. That whole bin job has been a mess. Prayers for you all.
So sorry for all the troubles y'all are having with the bin site. Prayers for y'all as you work to resolve them. God bless
Happy Birthday Cooper! I'm so sorry for what the Cornstar family is going through. To me this should be a closed case for the attorney to be able to make the bin site company to redo and pay for it all and to pay the Cornstar family for such a shoddy job. It shouldn't be hard to prove that it was completely done wrong! I'm praying for you all that everyone stays safe! Please stop climbing up to the top of those bins and the hopper bin! It's not safe. I gasped with fear for Daddy Cornstar when that weld broke just from him grabbing ahold of the rail. Please stop going to the top!
Also don't let Nave or anyone else go inside the building and stay in there. Go in and then get out as soon and as fast as you can. The site is unstable and no one should be hanging out around there or hanging out inside the building when the bin could collapse at any given moment.
We run three bin site /elevators ours were built in the early 70s and 80s. Your site is the thing nightmares are made of I hope and pray that your lawyers can get these guys to make it right. Good luck Happy Birthday to Cooper and keep up the great videos.
Happy Birthday Cooper. I hope things are safe with the bin.
I Understand that you have the attorneys involved. Hope once it’s settled that there is no “non disclosure “ so you can tell the the WHOLE WIDE WORLD who these shysters are!
He can sue for negligence. But the red flags were there from the beginning. I suspect if he had 3 contractors lined up and one was 1.5 million, 2nd was 1 million, and 3rd was 3/4 million. He picked the 1 million, even tho the 1.5 million had a long reputation of results. Just look back at the videos, nothing went right. He was questioning everything, they knew they were getting screwed.
I think he did tell in the very beginning of building this crap
The episode when they can finally talk about all of this is going to be fire!
This is all on them though! They didn't hire a general contractor nor did they hire the proper engineers. This is 100% thier fault. I'm actually surprised the bank financed it
@@tylerwhite4743 They shouldn't have had to hire their own contractor or engineers though... it's not like there's a super secret farmer home depot that sells do it yourself bin systems. They went to
I’m an Aussie and that’s how things are done out here. The builder does or sub contracts everything
I’m an Aussie but I’m fairly sure your consumer protection laws are like ours. It’s the bin builders responsibility to supply goods that are safe and built properly to proper engineering codes
@@tylerwhite4743 Tyler, we hired a general contractor with a team of engineers for this protect. They have been in business over 40 years. We were given glowing recommendations to use them.
The dryer shack was our own doings and we helped move piles of dirt. Other than than those things, no corner was cut by us.
Glad your dad caught it pretty quick sorry he has to go through so much BS, KEEP the faith . Earlier what really pissed me off was those welds that alone on safety 😡
Happy birthday 🎉Cooper. Omg those cracks are super scary and the welds snapping shouldn’t be happening. Considering the thickness what a mess! Hope you can get it all resolved.
Nave, great to see you!! You're looking fabulous... absolutely glowing!!!🥰
married and pregnant.... there, said it for ya
Showed my dad of 40 years working concrete he said that bin needs to be emptied so you have the right idea and that foundation is compromised
Agreed 👍
thank you for asking him!
I hope everything works out. Bad time to deal with the issues. will keep you guys in prayers, hopefully things work out for you.
Yea! The delightful Nave graces this video with her beautiful smile (Thank you, Cole) Your videos on the struggles of farming are interesting, here is wishing the best for you.
When is the baby announcement? Nave is expecting, did I miss it?
Happy Birthday Cooper 🎂🥳
While everyone is fixated on the concrete pad that we know about, I’m concerned about testing any other concrete work that was done by these contractors. There could easily be bigger problems that haven’t surfaced yet.
I heard that they went down to Florida to work on the new Surfside Condo complex.
@@hairhurt1 oh that was a good one! 😂
There a lot of hidden horrors, yet to be found.
Yep, I was wondering about the perimeters of the large bins if anything can be seen there. Which would still be an issue if is contained inside the bin perimeter under the flooring.
@@guzzimon61, exactly
Put a 5 gallon bucket in each piece of equipment and a box of trash bags. Make sure everyone puts their trash in the buckets. When the bag is full, take it out and put a new bag in the bucket.
REALY??? Nobody noticed it ??? Congradulations Cole and Nave
Happy Birthday Cooper! So sorry you all are going through this. It looks like the guy that built my addition to my home did the work on those bins. I know he didn’t but it sure does. That man couldn’t build himself out of a flattened shoe box! My story ended up with him and his partner going out of business and I’m left with a mess. He hung my addition like a deck on my almost 100 year old house not sure how much longer the small addition will last. Left my house footing exposed, and it’s a water feature too! 🤦🏻♀️ I’m praying you get this fixed. Please Please be careful I know business of farming needs done and it’s a dangerous business too, the sheer negligence can kill you all. Praying for you all.
Happy Birthday Cooper. Nothing like running a combine on your birthday. Life couldn't be better. God Bless.
I’m just watching the video and I feel your pain. I’m pissed just watching. Especially with everything you guys went through to get it this far.
This is unacceptable. I wish you all well on getting this resolved. Great to see the corn coming in. Glad there are other bins to store beans and corn.
Happy Birthday Cooper! Be very concerned about that pad. Even empty I would get the hopper bottom off that pad, even empty you have a lot of dead load weight and the winter winds are going to put a lot of torque/shear load also. Be prepared for a lot of finger pointing between the installer and concrete supplier. Environmental survey may come into play also if ground was/was not tested for compaction. Sad you have to go through this but focus on your blessings and you will get through.
Happy Birthday Coop! As for that bin site.....find the builders of it and..... well you guys already dig graves! I'm just saying!
The situation with the bin sight is heartbreaking, if you can watch that slab cracking and moving you have a very dangerous problem.
Do they not use reinforcing mesh / steel in the US
@@upthereds4939 yes, we typically use more In the US, from what my experience is. These contractors half assed it all so it’s all falling apart now
@@memesandmusic yes it’s terrible to see 😡
Thinking about you guys.
Happy Birthday Cooper! I had the privilege of meeting you at the Decatur Farm Progress Show a couple years back. The magic mullet
Happy birthday Cooper, commiserations on the bins. And I'm guessing congratulations on the future baby cornstar 😍.
Happy Birthday Cooper!!
I feel so bad for you all and the issues that have started to come up all over your Bin Site, you are just hard working farmers that only had a dream of having a wonderful bin site that would help you all in the long run, but now only to be giving you heart break. I surely do hope that all will be done over, but hope that you all will be able to deal with all of the redo that is going to happen. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!
Happy Birthday Cooper, seeing the troubles the corn star family is having with a million dollar site is heartbreaking. I'm with the masses, on the foundation wasn't compacted right, n not enough reinforcement to the concrete for the mass weight being applied to the concrete.
I've done concrete for yrs n never seen a proper pour fail so fast as this has to your pad. I pray that everything falls in your family's favor and the guilty parties that caused this out of not caring or whatever, fixes this.
Good luck, keep the faith flowing along with good video content.
Hey Cornstar family we are all here for you. I sure hope they fix EVERYTHING that’s wrong for you. Happy birthday Cooper!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY COOPER. May you have many more!!
First...Happy birthday Cooper!! Second....thinking back to the construction of the pad for that bin...I don't think I recall any concrete piers being put in prior to the pad pour. Without piers the pad is 100% relying on its own integrity and the compaction of the base materials beneath it. No piers = the cracking you're seeing now. Should be a pier directly under each of the legs of that hopper bottom bin.
This is a shout out to all CornStarFarms fans the videos we watch everyday and never really think twice about are a small part of this Fine Family’s daily life and we step away from our lives to for a few moments and to forget for just a few moments all our own BS going on in our own lives I know personally I hope for and look forward to that little escape With all that said I am sending a shout out to the the fans that are welders engineers contractors that can help Cole and Daddy Cornstar to get the Binsite Safe and to make an alignment plate in the conveyor so the Belt will not come off anymore I know that each of us have had a moment that these videos have touched us at a time when we really needed it so if at all possible get the word out to help these guys back to safe again. Thanks
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Amen! was thinking the same thing.
Well Said, Thank you
Hope you get the problems resolved to your satisfaction. Happy birthday Cooper!
Oh my that pad for the bin. Maybe somehow you can get it moved to its old pad before the winter weather does a number on those cracks. 🤞 praying the rest of harvest goes well. Nice to see Nave.
Happy Birthday Cooper! You look radiant Hneiva! Stay safe around that bin site everyone!
Please stay safe around all those malfunctioning areas. Unreal…. You need a good team of experts. There is no excuse for the shoddy work that was preformed on this site. HAPPY BIRTHDAY COOPER. you are doing better and better with the video and telling us what your doing. Fun to listen to you. Prayers that some how some way this gets figured out…
From the looks of it, I'd say it started with improper prep for the footings & the lack of enough rebar or perhaps it wasn't tied together right. For any additional bins you have added to this site, I'd add fiberglass to your concrete mix design. With the fiberglass & rebar it'll give you much stronger concrete pads which will help with any shifting due to settling.
Happy Birthday Cooper , the bin site gets worse, frost in them cracks will make it so much worse, be careful around there please
It’s going to be a real big problem when water gets into those cracks and it freezes.
this it will cause the legs to stretch out and the bin to fail
In my neck of the woods, you'd say "if" it freezes, but Cornstars are in Iowa. You definitely say WHEN.
That’s a very good point! Didn’t think of that being in Florida but water in there when it freezes will detonate that slab!
Happy birthday Copper
I worked for utilities(power plants, large industrial equipment, Heavy rotating equipment, Lots of Concrete/Good and Bad) for 30+ years and my experience was trying to mitigate dumpster fire situations. 1. Recruit a Civil/Strutural Engineer to evaluate the current status and risk. 2. Develop a Bandaid plan to sure up things in order to make it through the winter, plan on that bin being out of service. If I remember correctly, the hopper bottom bin was an existing bin, I would try to save the bin if possible, the pad is a dumpster fire and will need to be redone from the subsoil up, insist on better reinforcement in the bin pad, insist on recompaction of the subsoil beneath the pad. 3. Have the bin removed from it's current location before it is damaged by the pad failure., 4. Take some comfort in knowing this should be resolved at someone else's expense, you have done nothing wrong. Don't wait to take action, luck favors the prepared. Finish your harvest, stay safe, things have a way of working out, Trust that God is at work and has a plan.
The only hiccup, from what Ive been reading in the comments, was that they didnt hire an General Contractor, they did it themselves (im no expert at all) but im curious how this will play into the law suit
@@Goostradamus81 cole stated in other replies that they did have a GC
Congrats on the new one on the way, if the foundations of the bin site are compromised then there's no hope of rescuing it really.
Awe, Cole so sorry for your loss. It's hard to lose a special family member. My condolences to the family and the loss of Maverick. We had a border collie that use to chase vehicle passing by our farm. He would always go after their license plates on the back. We had a small collection of them, One day he went after the plate of a truck hauling a horse trailer and he was hit by the trailer and died. I really miss my boy. accidents happen.
Happy birthday Cooper! So sorry about the whole bin site fiasco! I hope it gets resolved soon so you can tell us what happened. You would think the company would have done an excellent job if for no other reason than you have over half a million subscribers who now know what shoddy work this company does.
Every time you post an update that involves the bin site, I have a moment of panic where I wonder if you actually hired me, an actor, to build it, and I just don't remember for some reason. It looks like the kind of job I would be capable of. I'm sorry you've had such a headache with the whole thing and I'm glad to see you have so much support from your fans and community.
I'm not an actor, I'm in sales, but I can (kinda) use a SkillSaw. Maybe we built it together while sleepwalking?
I do sleepwalk. To my knowledge not as far as to Iowa, but it would explain the quality of work...
Bad thing about those cracks is once moisture gets into them and freezes it’ll start heaving and making the cracks bigger pushing that pad apart! Maverick is an awesome puppy! Aussies are the BEST DOGS IN THE WORLD! Loyal, loving and very smart dogs! I’ve had Aussies my whole life and want another one but I travel so much I can’t have a puppy!
🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAY COOPER, and many more!
Happy Happy Birthday Cooper! Hope it was a Great One!🎂
Happy Birthday Coop! Praying for all your farm troubles. 🌽⭐️🚜🙏🇺🇸
Happy biff-day Coop!!! Blessings. Oh, fyi. An easy fix to your bin problem would be to add braces between the legs on top of the concrete to increase the surface area and distribute the weight more to prevent collapse.
I feel so sorry for you guys. The amount of stress this must be causing. Praying for all of you, God will see you through.
A million dollar death trap is what you've got!
Every time Daddy Cornstar goes up top he's not only showing us stuff that's loose, but also the complete lack of a safe design in the catwalks. If he's climbing down a vertical ladder onto a lower platform then the handrail should be the height of the higher tier so if he were to slip or stumble there's no risk of him going clean over the rail.
Get a concrete testing company to come in and do some testing on that slab, you will be able to use the data in your legal proceedings.
Another thing to worry about is if water freezes within the cracks it will make things worse (water expands as it freezes). You may want to cover or caulk the cracks as a temporary measure to help prevent a bad situation from getting worse.
Cole, congratulations on your new baby!!!
Is it official? Thought there might be a baby on the way. If so … many congratulations!!
I was wondering as well.
@@laurabronson6173 Her face has changed alot. I was guessing the same thing. She is always happy, but seem more glowing happy now
I wondered if anyone else noticed that shes bee mia for 9 months now so must be soon I bet its twins.
A Big Happy Birthday, Coop, wishing you many more. Cole, with all that is going wrong, you are in for some great days ahead, God Bless
I'm no expert but I have been in the construction concrete field for 40 years. Looking at what's going on with the concrete pad. I'm seeing that the concrete was poured on bare ground. Water is getting under the outside edges and with the weigh pushing down on the outside edge it's allowing the center to heave and crack in the center. It appears there is no reinforcement bar in the concrete. When you rebuild it. Dig the area out to a minimum of 12 inches or more in depth. Fill the hole with crushed stone and compact it. Build a grid out of #5 reinforcement bar creating squares that are 12 inches on center. The grid needs to be elevated so it's no sitting on the ground. The best way when you build the grid is to drive reinforcement bar pins into the ground and tie the grid to that. When you order the concrete yu want 4,000 lbs. 3/4 blended mix.
Happy Birthday, Cooper!!! The bin site problems are so sad. Hope you have a structural engineer helping you out. Maybe someone from Iowa State. And an army of vicious attorneys with fangs.
Cole I pray that everything works out with the bins. Happy Birthday Cooper! Rick is the cutest little guy. It's good to see Nave again. Love to the family.
I admire how upbeat you all are while dealing with this awful mess. Stay strong and the lord will provide xx
Hello Cole my family and I love you guys and are heartbroken with the massive problems you guys are having. Please be safe around the bin site. Our prayers are with you and your family. Please continue to keep us up to date through your videos. Daddy cornstar much love bud from a trucker out here in California please be safe on those cat walks and may the Lord richly bless you and your entire family.
Happy Birthday 🎂 Coop! I'm sorry for all the problems with the "new bin site"!!!! I can't imagine what it's going to take to rectify (make everything work as it should) this and make it safe. This makes me angry and it's not my set up or money. Prayers!
My advice is you will need to have a core sample taken. Concrete should not crack like yours did in that short amount of time. 3 main reasons for concrete failure is number one. The foundation the pad sits on. If the pad and sub soil was not stabilized properly. Meaning the proper depth and fill. The fill should have been compacted in layers no more than a few inches at a time. If the base layer wasn't compacted correctly then once the concrete is poured and weight added then yes concrete will begin to fail. 2 reason for failure is not reinforcement was installed in concrete. Since your in a climate with heavy freeze thaw cycles the best reinforcement I have used is a combination of steal rebar and mesh with a fiber glass mesh concrete mix. Yes the steal is over kill with a fiber mesh mix. But for the longevity of the concrete and the extreme weight your placing on the pad its best. 3rd reason would be improper footing, thickness, along with improper mix was installed. Yes there is different mix of concrete for every project. Your stone size and slump will be different from say laying a sidewalk, to a roadway, to an in ground pool, to a driveway, to even pouring concrete walls for a house. Whom ever did your concrete and bin setup has gor sure caused you all more money and stress. The over head bin does have a possibility of failure as it's hard to know without an engineer report being completed if the slab will continue to fail or settle. However with the Iowa extreme weather from summer to winter once the moisture flows in the cracks and gets under the slab. Once the freeze thaw cycle begins the structure will become unsafe. This goes for your entire site. You may get lucky to finish harvest without failure. Hopefully things will work out with you guys soon. Unfortunately the whole site will need to be redone from the ground up. It is true concrete will crack...but it would be hairline cracks. Basically surface cracks. Cracks that go the entire depth and with lifting is a cause for concern. That type of movement you have is movement you would see over the course of say 10 years...not in a 36 hour period or less. It's a cause for concern. Be mindful around your site and keep the eyes and ears open. The good thing is when the thing gets settled a solid bin company has the ability to reuse many of your components and fix the ones that was put together wrong. The foundations for the entire site will need to be torn out and done over.
Very accurate assessment. Basically a total shit show.
Thats the truth!
Wonder if the contractor did breaks on samples to confirm strength?
I am a materials engineer in Ontario Canada. The above information is correct. Your bin site issues are a result of poor design, bad workmanship and a lack of oversite by a competent independent third party. I hope you are able to get these issues resolved, but I am afraid that the comment about the site needing to be redone is likely accurate. Please take the advise in the other comments as well about the ladders and railings. Your site is not safe!
My advice is to not take advice from the Internet beyond employing a professional structural engineer and letting that person do a total evaluation, including all of the tests they would need for a determination as to the extent of the problems. Only a PE can give an opinion that can be used for legal remedies for the problems.
All the bin site issues you are having are heart breaking, I do hope those responsible can make you whole on all of it.
That new bin site is a disaster, please be very cautious. 🧡Happy Birthday Cooper 🎉 🎂
First of all COOPER Happy birthday and many happy returns dude!! Hope you had a good one!!
I almost want to say, call your attorney to get the papers ready for lost of harvest and fill it up, let it collapse and then make a bigger claim to the company who build this!
The company signed it off that it could take the weight, so if it collapses it is their fault IMO.
But from a guy who did roadwork and foundation work, those slabs are compromised and complete done for.. What i would do is get the go ahead from your attorney, let a company who does concrete restoration work come in for a second opinion maybe take a core sample and let it be tested. So you have an opinion from an outsider what to be done.
And i think it needs to be taken down and completely rebuild, plus if that slab is cracking, what are the other slabs doing???
I'm not convinced that they are free of cracks even if you can't see them, sometimes small cracks in the middle can already be developing. Pressure points and so on....
Something needs to be done, and fast! this is not a 3000 dollar backyard concrete slab..
Also, your videos of the entire build process will very likely be incredibly helpful in showing various details of the job. For example, rebar placement, weather, time stamps, etc.
The videos do nothing but prove that the cornstar family cut corners and tried saving money that is going to cost em
@@tylerwhite4743 Who did the welding Tyler? Who poured the concrete? Who installed all of the equipment? Who failed to connect the rods under the bin floors?
The Start to Finish Video shows Lack of Rebar in those Large Base Pads and Footings. Thickness of Concrete pour, Looks inches thick instead of at least a Foot. Slump looks like it has extra Fluidity.
@@tylerwhite4743 I believe that each contractor is responsible for the product they produce. Regardless, there should have been engineered plans with specifications that each contractor was obligated to meet.
Joyous Birthday Blessings Copper!!! I hope your day was great doing what you love
Guys I appreciate how even in the worst times and the biggest challenges you are always positive thank you for that
Happy Birthday Coop!!! And Cole you’re right to be concerned with the cracks. There is definitely a structural integrity problem with the concrete or the pack under the concrete. If you get no satisfaction from your contractor reach out to the Consumer Affairs office in the State Attorney General’s Office. They often can pressure companies to do the right thing as they can revoke their right to do business within your state.
I sit here and worry about you at your bin site!!
I would not be under that bin!!! What's going to happen when it freezes!!!
I know you are very safety conscious, but things can happen.
Be careful.
Happy Birthday Cooper!!!
Cole, when you guys get settled on the new bin could you please fill us in on what will get repaired and replaced. We don't need any monetary details, just the final outcome and what is getting fixed by the contractor/bin company.
Hey Cole! Love the videos! I just watched the recent video about asking about concrete! I work for a company here in Texas and we pour millions of square yards a year and the concerns you have are absolutely in the right! That concrete should not have cracked and it may be for a few reasons!
1. It could be that they didn’t put the steel at the right spacing in the concrete which can cause a couple things. Too much steel and you will have a weak pad due to the fact that the concrete is binding to the steel but the spacing between is very small and is causing stress. Or they didn’t have enough steel which means it’s binding but the space between is causing weak points.
2. They poured the concrete too wet which can cause some of the aggregate to settle out of the mix and gives you a weaker holding psi.
3. The concrete company that batched the concrete cheated you on material. Which can cause you to have a bad batch and a weaker psi.
Words fail me to express my sadness about the mess the bins and steel are in. Your family deserves better and I hope you can get it sorted out quickly for everyones safety. Good luck, take care and God bless.
Happy Birthday 🎊 Cooper, have a great day. Sorry to see this on a new site, what I'm seeing it needs to be taken down and redone. Winter is coming up and the freezing and thawing will only make those cracks much worse than what you are seeing newt.
Need to look at the reinforcement design and at the foundation/geotechnical report..sounds like could be a settling issue. Was the pad (concrete placed on compacted fill or did footings go down to undisturbed soil? Was a geotechnical boring done in the area as part of the design?
Cole. Next to farming I worked in the tower Industry. Always get proofs of every batch of concrete. Is a small bucket they fill. Keep these out next to your site. When things like this happens you can get the proofs tested for the load rating and psi rating, that directly puts the Conractor and concrete company at risk and makes them not cut any corners or keeps then honest. Just some tips for the trade.
I showed this to my Uncle who is a engineer. He said that bid could easily come down even if it’s empty. He said the same as others have said, it was a bad mix and not enough rebar. He said the way the wind sounded in the video that he wouldn’t be surprised if it stays up for very much longer. I will be praying that this all works out and that everything is fixed soon.
Happy birthday Cooper
All tax deductible. Hahahaha
This bin site SCREAMS
catastrophy coming . If theyve had this much trouble in less than a year , they should demand a NEW BIN SITE AT THE CONTRACTORS EXPENSE , by a real contractor , not the folks that did the current one .