 Unloading the forms for the walls. They cost over $2000 to rent. |
 Rick closing in the last of the inside wall ... |
 ... which sets off a minor celebration. |
 Despite tremendous thunderstorms, when it is difficult to find workers dumb enough to walk around a pasture at the top of a hill with a 20 foot piece of rebar or even an 8 foot aluminum concrete form, we got the outside wall buttoned up and prepared for the big pour. Chad is on the excavator and Wayne is bringing over some of the earth stripped out of the cellar hole to make a ramp so that the concrete truck can get its chute above the walls. While it appears that Rick is either mooning Wayne or giving him something to aim at, he was checking all the pins at the bottom of the forms. |
 The walers, the doubled row of 2x4's along the outside of the forms, strengthen and straighten the forms. This is a shot of Rick at the "Walered Wall". |
 Rick and Wayne do a final touchup on the wine cellar. |
 A final check of the top of the wall with the laser transit showed that one corner was a mere eighth of an inch low. Rather than snapping lines to about an inch and a half below the top and floating the concrete to those lines, we decided to fill the forms to the top, gaining a bit of height in the cellar. We had ordered 34 yards of concrete: four trucks, every 15 minutes starting at 4:30. The excess concrete (about two yards) was to be the 6 inch floor in the wine cellar. Now an extra yard was added to the top of the walls reducing the wine cellar floor to 3 inches. All the trucks arrived at about the same time so Ed started on the NW corner ... |
 ... and Rick started on the SW corner. |
 We met in the middle with Chad and Kent running the dip vibrator. |
 After filling the south wall we headed north up the west wall, changing trucks. |
 Ed headed up the north wall as we continued up the south. |
 Eventually, the last truck started to fill the east wall. |
 Ed floated top and ... |
 Rick installed anchor bolts at 6:30 as ... |
 Wayne floated the wine cellar floor.
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