Working on 1800's barn

[ebinmaine 69,283]

The Local Used Wood Hoarder...

AKA BBT ...

Would be very happy with you re-using type folk. 

She'll save a half a scrap for future use multiple times!!

[AlexR 849]

Got a couple hours on the barn again the concrete is thicker then I thought in some of these area's, it's 4" in a decent section. Which is also making it harder to bust up and of course is more concrete to move. 

I probably only got maybe a 1/10 of it done so it's gonna be a good 20 hours of work on the concrete. 

 

 

 

[Handy Don 12,876]

That is hard work! Be thankful the pourers didn’t but in any mesh reinforcement!

Might behoove you to rent an electric jack hammer for half a day. Do all the busting up and then do the pickup as you have time.

Edited Thursday at 11:19 PM by Handy Don

[ebinmaine 69,283]

26 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

rent an electric jack hammer for half a day

 

[AlexR 849]

28 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

That is hard work! Be thankful the pourers didn’t but in any mesh reinforcement!

Might behoove you to rent an electric jack hammer for half a day. Do all the busting up and then do the pickup as you have time.

Definitely thankful for that! or rebar. 

Yeah I might need to get a jackhammer, I think I will see how one more day goes with the old sledgehammer. I also thought about using a grinder and cutting across to create some break lines. 

Even hitting the concrete with the sledge makes me nervous haha, that is a ton of weight on the beams below. As you can probably tell from the pictures it's about 4 inches of sag in the middle where all the concrete is. 

Edited Thursday at 11:48 PM by AlexR

[rjg854 11,633]

@AlexR  I hope you have a place for all that hard fill.  Or you might know of someone who does.

[AlexR 849]

3 hours ago, rjg854 said:

@AlexR  I hope you have a place for all that hard fill.  Or you might know of someone who does.

Right now I am dumping it on a concrete pad I have. And eventually I will borrow or rent a dump trailer and I can use a skidsteer to load that up, and take it to one of many gravel places around me. Most of them will take clean concrete for free.

[ebinmaine 69,283]

6 minutes ago, AlexR said:

Right now I am dumping it on a concrete pad I have. And eventually I will borrow or rent a dump trailer and I can use a skidsteer to load that up, and take it to one of many gravel places around me. Most of them will take clean concrete for free.

 

Makes good fill

[Handy Don 12,876]

17 hours ago, AlexR said:

also thought about using a grinder and cutting across to create some break lines. 

This method is useful when you need to control the extent of the breaking up. Power concrete cutters need water to keep the blade cool and I suspect that water and the underlying wood supports would not get along in your situation. 

[AlexR 849]

30 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

This method is useful when you need to control the extent of the breaking up. Power concrete cutters need water to keep the blade cool and I suspect that water and the underlying wood supports would not get along in your situation. 

I have some experience in cutting concrete mainly pavers and the water is actually not typically for keeping the blade cool except for extended cutting without breaks. (In my application I never had problems with hot blades or less life on the blade cutting dry vs wet)

It's actually for dust control the silica dust from cutting concrete is pretty bad to breathe in, makes new concrete in your lungs haha.

You can wear masks cutting dry, but cutting wet is preferred to keep dust down and bystanders or other workers not breathing it in as well. 

 

I will just wear a mask using the grinder, as not to concerned with dust it's already everywhere. And nobody else is around. 

Edited 11 hours ago by AlexR

[AlexR 849]

16 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

 

Makes good fill

 

It definitely does make good fill, I just don't have any need for fill, and I checked with my one neighbor to see if maybe he did and he didn't either.