Ouch I'm not used to this manual labor stuff!
Me and another guy had to shovel 5 dumptruck loads of 3/4 gravel, level, compact, and put rebar over it. Getting ready to pour the slab on a new house, the twin is next door, and waiting for us monday. The trick is to get it perfectly level with no dips so they have to use as little concrete as possible, this increases your profit margin.
Muscles that I didn't even know I had are hurting! I'm applying a bit of vodka to numb the pain, seems to be working. This manual labor stuff isn't bad though, its certianly interesting because I'm doing something different everyday. Yesterday we were prepping another house he is doing for inspection so the dry wall crew could get in and finish it off. Tuesday we may be breaking ground on said raised ranch's twin, not sure yet.
My uncle shows and amazing ability to run an excavator and talk on his cell phone the whole time. He placed every bucket perfectly and didn't crush me between the bucket and wall.
That new Volvo he got is a nice machine to, very quite. Its nice being the owner...being in the machine is the place to be.
Were going to do the beer bottle thing with the Komatsu though because its quite a bite larger than the Volvo and has a huge reach so it will be harder!