Day 7 - Pouring Concrete

We started the day at 6:30AM to finish the rebar and box for the handicap ramp bricks...that the square in the front of the flared part of the slab.  Mr. Cottam and Zach were there to help!

We started the day like any other project, talking and getting ready.  This was my scout crew for the day.  My coach also came a little later.  The concrete crew was Mr. Cottam's father-in-law Mr. Harry Harris of Texas Shafts.  I want to thank Mr. Harris for his donation of tools and crew to help us pour this slab.  Without them we could have never done this!  Thank you Mr. Harris!






The concrete truck showed up at abut 8:15AM and we were ready to start.  Mr. Harris guided the truck back into the slab area and we started pouring concrete.  It was already getting hot and hot and pouring concrete is a tough job!







I had my trusted friend Tanner to help as he has for every day on this project.  Thanks again Tanner!  The concrete crew, convinced me to put in plastic buckets for the benches that had not shown up yet instead of putting in woof frames.  They said it would do the same job and easy to pull out after the concrete was hard.  The benches are going to mount in the ground with concrete to make them steady.

Here we are starting the level the concrete to the top of the forms.

Mr. Harris told his guys to start on one corner then work their way to the middle.  I was ther to be sure we got the concrete level.

I asked Tanner and Zach help keep things out of the way and the get the concrete crew anything they needed.

This is my coach Mr. Findley and his son or as my Mom calls him....Mr. Friendly the police Officer!

Mr. Harris asks his grandson to "keep the mud coming Zack!"

Mr. Cottam spraying the concrete with a little water to help keep the surface wet.

This thing is actually looking like a slab now!  It was hot and we were working hard to get this done before lunch.  Mom brought breakfast again, Thanks Mom!  The orange juice, pigs in a blanket and donuts were great.

This was the finished product.  I think we all did a great job.  It looks like I will be done with this project after all!  Still a few thing to do though.  I will still need all the help I can get!  The pergola has to be put together and mounted.  Hopefully the benched will be here soon and we'll put a fence and some decomposed granite and large rocks for landscaping.


My Mom came up with a great idea, went to the scout shop and got me an Eagle Service Project brass plate and some foam rubber letters to set my name in the concrete.  It looked like it worked great except when we finished the top of the concrete the letters moved and we didn't notice it.  It looks good to me!  hanks again to Mr. Harris and His crew, Mr.. Cottam, Mr. Findley, Tanner and Zach!