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You don’t pour concrete, you place it.
OP: Management
Top Comment: Professional
10 years of my life summed up in a phrase. We didn’t only do concrete, but my crew was the best at it so we had any of the jobs that came up.
You don't.
But yo mama pours concrete for the whole block
And you make DAMN sure to ask the concrete's father first.
Hell yeah just put that concrete mix in the ground it's wet enough (we actually did that)
as someone who has removed 40 dry pour fence posts, fuck dry pour. it's fucking lazy and you're fucking the dude that has to pull the plugs later.
properly mix your concrete, it's not hard with a machine.
As someone who’s done the same, eh, you have the machine anyways, and maybe you live in a drier place? Because they more or less come out in a single chunk, or if not, soft enough that the auger won’t shirk at it. You have 50/50 chance of finding a boulder bigger than you’re auger hole anyways with any hole you try and make.
We have pretty clay forward soil, so you can even just back fill and tamp it with the dirt you took out. Frost fucks with everything anyways.
out of the 40 posts I pulled 10 of them came out 100%.
the rest had to be dug out. each post had one thing in common. failure to bond. they all broke off just after the first 2 feet below grade. when I dug the bottoms out, it was all powder. those posts had been sitting there for 20 years, so there's literally no other reason why the bottoms failed to cure other than they dry poured.
mixing and pouring would have saved me more time than the last guy saved by doing it wrong the first time.
Time isn’t the only factor, water may not be available, if it’s a colder place, you need to keep it heated all day while you work. Dry bonded concrete works, if you’re replacing all the posts, it doesn’t sound like it’s only because a few failed, because you would just replace those ones. It’s not an inherently wrong job just because you don’t like it lol.
And auger makes the task moot anyways, and if it’s powder, a shovel works fine too.
I'm not going to pay for the machine from my own money for some shit I do for work for a company. Next guy is just going to have to deal with it lol
fuck your cheap ass company for not doing it right.
I get not paying for it out of your own pocket though.
Those offering contracts cheap out on the contracts and specs, the people doing the thing cheap out on the work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
this is so common it's disgusting.
I've had a company charge me $30k for a new roof and refused to come out to fix the leaks and blown off shingles.
I had to go out and fix my own damn roof.
bunch of fucking thieves.
I miss the days where everything wasn't run like a corporation trying to bleed a stone.
I'm pretty sure contractors have been doing that for decades, if not millennia.
within reason.
my grandfather and father were both contractors spanning back to the 1910s. I was fortunate enough to work with both of them.
corners were cut, however not to the extent that the final product was defective or negligent.
more so, contractors would come back if there was a problem and not ghost you.
Flipside on where I live is cheaper land development costs for the developer (a municipality, usually). They want to cheap out since it's easier sell to the municipal voters and contractors give cheap bids in return, deciding to cheap out on the work.
For us it’s water access, and not every farmers fence needs concrete either. A 5 gallon bucket and a shovel is good enough for fence posts and other small jobs.