How we poured our own footings Off Grid - Log Cabin Build
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- After getting a quote for a crew to do out concrete foundation work, we decided to buy a mudmixer and 700 bags of concrete and try the process ourselves. This is the process and results.
#logcabin #milwaukee #mudmixer #footing #concrete
Great job on the footings, that was funny with your wife splitting the bag open and getting you with some of it👍 You have some great neighbors. I bet this has been a long hard week!? Enjoy the weekend with your family. 🍁👋😉😁👏
Thank you! 😁You caught that?! Felt a splash haha, the best neighbors! Have a great weekend!!
Awesome job on the footings, I’m amazed how hard you work, your wife and neighbors were a welcome relief I’m sure! Great videos always looking forward to the next one.
Thank you John! Very much appreciated! Was a blessing to have all the help!
Neighbors helping is awesome!
Keep on keeping on!
Semper Fi
What a work day! You certainly put the effort into it. Glad your wife and neighbors could help. See you next week.
Thank you! See you next week!
So glad you decided to do this yourself, in the long run I think you will look back and see what you have achieved! Awesome work, looking forward to the next chapter!
I look forward to your video's. Your a hard working dude. My wife and I love the black hills!
Thank you Ray! We are also loving them!
I look forward to every video. It's my "Vice Grip Garage" of log cabin building!!
Very much appreciated!!
Looking good! I found your channel last week and binge watched all your videos from the start of your move out east to the Black Hills. Being from and having grown up in SD, I'm not surprised your neighbors are giving you a hand. Love the Black Hills!
Very nice! Thank you! SD and the neighbors are certain pretty awesome, we are blessed! Black hills are beautiful! Welcome to the channel!
That ground looks bloody solid, great video again 👍
Thank you! Yes the ground was a bear to get thru! But that’s probably a good thing for the concrete!
I can't get over how good that turned out! I have never seen a machine like that before that looked super easy to use and the results were fabulous!! Congrats on hitting 14K!!!
Thank you, quite the slick machine! And the RUclips support like yours is pretty cool!
Your video reminds me of my younger days working with my Dad. We poured a lot of foundations. Glad you are having fun
Hey, wow that was a lot of work and it looks great. Your wife was awesome😊. We finished harvest before the snow this year. Hopefully it holds off until the first of November, then we are off to our home in the Caribbean. Great neighbors, that will really help.
Thank you! Hard work in the summer and a little winter Caribbean relaxing sounds pretty good. Hope that’s our routine one day!!
Looks great!! Thank God for the helpful neighbors!! Maybe they will need some excavator work!! Maybe the spring might be a blessing, if you can figure out how to use it!! Fun watch!! As always best of luck!!
Thanks Charles! Great neighbors, I’ll be happy when I can return the favor! I’ve definitely been thinking about that spring, would love to utilize it! Have a great weekend!
Great job Ross…always inspired by what you do….no challenge is to big. Great job
As always, thank you Russ!
Such drive! The thought of moving the bags up the drive would have killed me. Never mind then breaking 400+ into a machine to make the footings…. Well done sir. Well done! 👍🏻
Haha thank you! Tough couple weeks! But I think it will be worth it in the end!
That was an incredibly ambitious project… And you nailed it! Congratulations!
Thank you Mark!!
This is a great show. Well done.
Thank you Peter!
Another great video! Looking forward to more. Inspiring!
Thank you vintage!!!
great video
Thank you Breyten!
A great job with team work.
Thank you Debbie!
Great pour. Coming together masterfully ❤
Thank you Diana!
This video made my back hurt. 😂 keep up the good work!
😂mine hurts too! thank you buddy!
@@DIYDemasi I can only imagine…haha
😂
I knew you could do it .💪👍
Thank you Steven!!!
While the sawzall and sander tricks work for small pours a regular vibrator is so much quicker and faster that anyone doing larger pours should own one. I bought one from China seven years ago. Motor looks like an electric drill and the vibrator is about seven feet long. It was less than a hundred bucks ($60 if I remember right).
60 doesn’t sound bad for how important a step it is. I may have to look into it! Thanks for the tip!
The only problem I see, you forgot to have the family and yourself to sign the footing.. You better sign the post footings. 😎
Your right! We will have to sign the floor somewhere!
Great vid 👍💪
Thank you! 🙏
It is an amazing little mixer, we used a 1/3 yard mixer
Is the machine worth it? The way you were able to feed the machine and it fill the form at the same time really looks like its worth it if you have a lot of bags to use. Great project. keep up the work
Thank you! I was skeptical at first, but after doing that much concrete in one day and having few problems, it was definitely worth it in our situation!
You made that look far too easy! (I know it wasn't). You're wife got stuck in too - free labour, lucky fella. 😅And you have cool neighbours mate! Great result. Nice one.
Thank you, as always! Wife and neighbors sure were helpful! Long day but It really couldn’t have gone much better!
Beautiful work, much better than the method your fellow YTers use, having a giant Redi-Mix truck come in and do the entire thing in one hour. For next time, consider doing the whole mix in a cereal bowl with a teaspoon - much more YT content that way!
Haha, thank you
Nice work! Looks great.... just curious, how much did you save by going DIY? Hundreds, thousands? We have a patio and firepit in our backyard. I was going to get a truck here to pour the concrete (we're in Virginia) but it was going to cost a couple grand. Did pea gravel instead.
Thank you Jeremy! For my situation, if I had someone else do the foundation the one quote I had was 37,000. With the mud mixer and basement supplies I’m estimating I’ll have north of 10,000 but under 12,500 into it. If you’re only going to do one job, renting a mud mixer would probably be the most efficient route. For concrete depending on the job size. The bags plus the mixer cost more than if I would have had a concrete truck come and pour the footers one time. But with the access to our site and the ability to pour on other areas of our property. The mixer was the right decision for us, and should save money ultimately.
Hope that helps
Thank you, yes that helps.... and sounds like you made a great choice. Also nice to hear that you'll be building more in the future
That's cheating buying pre-mixed bags, lol.
Still too short...
Always appreciated the feedback!
Using a 3800.00 cement mixer machine isn’t in a lot of DIYrs budget
✅ it all depends on what you are doing with it. In this case, this machine should save me lots of $ over time.