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Magic 9/14/2011, 11:44 am

Early in the day for me but outside I go for the next project.......

Building a higher wall out by my waterfall so this winter the creek doesn't overflow and head toward the house like last winter

Yesterday I mixed a couple bags down in the garage so it is easier to get the Cutlass in and out because (I didn't build this original building) it has a concrete floor made in 3 sections and each was 2in lower than the next so I had to drive in climbing up to each level which is not easy when there is only 3inches of room on each side and I would rather not hit the support pillars with my 40+ year old car

So I hope next time I drive in there it will be a bit smoother.

After the creek storm wall the next project is a concrete table top for the table I am making out by the pond.......that should last longer than the wooden ones I have got over the years here

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Magic 9/14/2011, 10:15 pm

Last winter

And todays upgrade to maybe keep the creek from going straight over the bank instead of the left turn over the Magic Falls

I will have to leave that form up for a few days before I can let the water touch it and that rock is bigger than it looks (280lbs) and 5 bags of concrete for the addition.

Magic 9/29/2011, 2:23 am

Not quite finished yet but here is the top of the concrete table I made out by the pond.

5 inches thick with some tiles and I used the powder to color the concrete at the top.

I am still leaving the form on the bottom until it cures for a month....or maybe all winter.

The top alone is just over 500lbs.

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cravnravn 9/29/2011, 3:46 am

I'll be flying your ass to Florida for a concrete walkway around my soon to be pool.

Guest 9/29/2011, 7:00 am

Why so thick for the tabletop, Magic?

Magic 9/29/2011, 12:49 pm

cravnravn wrote:I'll be flying your ass to Florida for a concrete walkway around my soon to be pool.

Well Cravn I have been wanting to make one of those behind my house for years now (3ft X 30ft) but I never get caught up with things here to even start that project.

I have been tempted to just have a truck drive in and pour it and then lay some type of stone or tile in it myself but since I had the driveway paved I have a feeling the big concrete trucks we have here would leave 2 grooves in the driveway......that I would fill with concrete

ColtsKurt wrote: Why so thick for the tabletop, Magic?

Well a couple reasons Kurt,

I want it to last for a couple hundred years and the way I attached it to the base pillar I made last year was by bolting some angle iron I used as rebar.

It has the 2 main bolted ones going across one direction and then 6 more placed on top of those two in the opposite direction.

That made it 4 inches so I had to make the concrete thick enough to cover that.

And I put in several pieces of regular rebar out towards the edges of the octagon shape.

The Mrs kept telling me when I was making it that somebody will sit on it and break the top.

So I had to make sure that would only happen if one of the big alder trees behind it falls in a storm (I may cut one down in fact)

Of course it is so late in the year that I took the umbrella down before I took those pics and put it away until next year

.....man it is probably our last sunny day and from up here I see the trout jumping in the pond so I guess I better go out and sit by the table and watch.......

Guest 9/29/2011, 1:53 pm

Oh, Magic, before I forget...

Happy Rosh Hashanah! Have a big piece of honey cake and a Sam Adams! cheerstoyou

Magic 9/29/2011, 5:29 pm

ColtsKurt wrote:Oh, Magic, before I forget...

Happy Rosh Hashanah! Have a big piece of honey cake and a Sam Adams!

Thanks Brotha Kurt

The 1st of Tishri the year 5772

I just came in from my sunny day and finished the mortar work on that table top (had to put the umbrella back in while I was doing that) and after wearing the skin off my fingers since the rubber gloves won't fit on my Wilt hands...remember I mentioned we had 40 mallards here this year begging for seeds every day.....well now we have 50 mallards

They must have told some friends about the seeds

So I just tried to snap a pic as they fly back to the pond when I point the camera out the back door.

Might have to name one Larry Bird now

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