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Showerthought: I just realized I've mixed over 500 yards of concrete by hand in the last three years.
Was cleaning out my garage and found a stack of old job tickets. Started adding up the square footage from the smaller residential jobs I do solo, the ones where the truck can't get in and it's just me, a mixer, and a wheelbarrow. Did the math on the average slab thickness and it came out to just over 500 cubic yards. Never kept track before. It's a weird milestone that made me think about all the sore backs and early mornings, but also the satisfaction of seeing a perfect, flat patio or walkway at the end of the day. Anyone else ever stop and calculate a number like that? Kinda puts the grind in perspective.
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murphy.abby19d ago
That math is actually crazy when you see it written down. I helped my uncle with a small shed base once and just that one yard felt like it took forever. I can't even imagine 500. You must have some serious arm strength now lol. It really is a record of all that work, like every yard is a real thing you did.
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spencer820d ago
It's wild to think about the weight of that. Five hundred yards is like a literal mountain of material you've moved yourself. You've basically shoveled the equivalent of a few fully loaded dump trucks, one wheelbarrow at a time. That number makes the sore back a kind of proof, you know? It's not just being tired, it's the physical record of the work.
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