OT: Distraction

[Ree4]

You don't appreciate how fucking heavy gravel is until you have to buy it by the ton for a project that you are funding yourself.

Haha yeah man, luckily I just paid somebody to dump it in the driveway and I didn't have to go get it anywhere. Barely had room to walk around the pile. Wife and I spent a few hours a night for weeks loading up a wheel barrow in the front and dumping it in the back. Put about .5-1 inch a night and hand tamped as much as I could. Through the whole month of July. Had plenty of liquid fuel to keep me going though

Not gonna lie though, using the jackhammer and loading up concrete was worse. Also sawed out a 3 ft door in the 9 in concrete in the back of my garage, some of the pieces were 150-200 lbs. Got it all loaded by myself by 9 am one day to take to the dump. Went in to grab my phone for the trip and could barely lift it, tweaked something in my left bicep, wasn't sore at rest but man it hurt to lift anything. Ended up powering through it (no way I was unloading that shit at home).

Good to go now, home stretch baby!

 

[Northside Hawk]

Been putting in a 400 square ft paver patio slowly over the last month, hoping to finish it this weekend. Lot of drinking I'm sure. Removed about 10,000 lbs of concrete, dug out 9 inches everywhere, packed and leveled 10 tons of gravel so far!

Two summers ago my next door neighbor's family was chopping up an old patio, partially with a jackhammer. I didn't realize the vibrations from the jackhammer could rearrange and collapse shelves in my basement.

I did after I lost collectibles, mostly glass and some Hawkeye, gathered from all over the country and from Canada. And those shelves were anchored two inches deep into my drywall studs.

The upper right corner of my avatar is where the damage occurred. My youngest kid was home and said the crashing glass was one of the scariest sounds he ever heard ( Note: his dorm took a direct hit from an F-2 tornado at Jeff Gard's UW Platteville basketball camp in 2014)

My neignbor is a widow in her seventies, we take care of her driveway when it snows in the winter, and I couldn't bring myself to tell her about what her rebuilding job destroyed. But it reminded me of what my chilldhood barber once said. His shop was next to railroad tracks and he said he never felt vibrations from passing trains. But our school playground a block and a half further away sure did.

The tracks are no longer with us and neither is my childhood barber. In its place is part of the Bee Branch recreation and flood control area. A bench has been put where the barber shop used to be in memory of barber Bud Takes.

 

[Northside Hawk]

Haha yeah man, luckily I just paid somebody to dump it in the driveway and I didn't have to go get it anywhere. Barely had room to walk around the pile. Wife and I spent a few hours a night for weeks loading up a wheel barrow in the front and dumping it in the back. Put about .5-1 inch a night and hand tamped as much as I could. Through the whole month of July. Had plenty of liquid fuel to keep me going though

Not gonna lie though, using the jackhammer and loading up concrete was worse. Also sawed out a 3 ft door in the 9 in concrete in the back of my garage, some of the pieces were 150-200 lbs. Got it all loaded by myself by 9 am one day to take to the dump. Went in to grab my phone for the trip and could barely lift it, tweaked something in my left bicep, wasn't sore at rest but man it hurt to lift anything. Ended up powering through it (no way I was unloading that shit at home).

Good to go now, home stretch baby!

Wait until you are well into your fifties.

You will hurt in places you never knew existed.