Recent content by Lowburban

Good luck with it. Did the dirt driveway thing for 10 yrs. ***** when it's wet, ***** to mow. I am very happy we did it and it spruces the place up a bit too.

Yeah, we got a pretty good deal on it and I do occasionally have something big here so better safe than sorry.

CrashTestDummy I know, the damn chinese finally laid off some and let the price come down. A year ago I looked into it and the same slab would of cost me $10,000.00 more. We got the concrete for $55 a yard,lowest it's been in probably 10 yrs. Steel's back up a little in my area but definately...

5" thick. My drive before was a mix of river sand mixed with fly ash from a local power plant. It is a really good stable base material I've had dump trucks one it when it was wet with no problems. Even the concrete trucks when they poured the foundation for my house and shop. Not much clay...

It has a ton of expansion joints in it, they are just the new fancy metal ones. You can see some of them in the pics in front of the shop before they poured it. HaHa, No body parts sold, paid off a bill we had for a long time so won't miss the money and momma was tired of tracking in dirt. I...

No the pics are over different days. It is all #8 rebar on 16" centers. There's alot of steel in it. We poured up to the garage a week before the other. Then let the rest dry out, treated it with lime and it also has plastic under it all like you would a home foundation. I think it was about...

A few more.

So I recently decided it was time to upgrade the driveway back to the shop. 6500 sq ft. 30x30 pad in front of the shop that I'll eventually cover as well.

So I'm a longtime H.A.M.B. member and somehow just discovered this place. I think it's gonna end up costing me some money but oh well.:bounce: I am a high school chemistry teacher and Volleyball / Softball coach to pay the bills and dig anything on wheels. Currently putting together a 63 chevy...