Thursday, November 13, 2008

Which Would You Choose?

To mount a closet pole bracket in your wife's closet? (Hint; it's not the small one. )

Unfortunately:

A). I didn't get that hint before I started.

B). I forgot that my wife's closet's back wall was old plaster about 7/8" thick, shortening effective embedment.

C) my wife's closet is still not big enough to hold all those clothes!

So naturally, as soon as Heather finished squeezing the culled-through-but-still-significant wardrobe into her closet and let go a sigh of accomplishment as she closed the door, she heard the sound of a big "WHUMP".

So I used the big screws today. And, I'm switching to the big ones in the other closet for safe measure.

How's that go... Fool me once...?..-I know George Bush knows that saying....

Barrow Shuttle

Wheelbarrow load by wheelbarrow load, the concrete gets dumped into place.

Mobile Concrete Unit!

Check out this truck; it's a concrete batch plant on wheels.

The vertical tank in the back has cement, the long bins in the middle have sand and gravel, and right behind the cab is a tank of water. It all dumps into a big mixer at the back and gets poured down a chute, at the end of which Steve waits like an anxious soccer coach as the first load approaches his barrow.