Yesterday I went and bought rebar and got it put in the forms, as you can see by my hands, I probably should have worn gloves.
It is hard to see it, but it is in there, the rebar is sitting on little rebar holder thingy's that keep it off the ground. I bought 14 10' pieces and only ended up with a couple of feet left over, I thought I did pretty good. Craig cut the shorter pieces for me.
We went to Lowe's this morning and picked up 60 80lb bags of cement, we had to pick it up 10 bags at a time because that is all my Jeep could handle, so 6 trips later this is what we had, 4,800 lbs of cement.
Craig mixed while I shoveled it into the forms. I am really glad we did all of that digging because it physically prepared me for this part, Craig was a trooper, he doesn't share the same enthusiasm for this as I do, but he helps and supports my crazy projects anyway.
You can kind of see how the rebar is suspended in the cement here.
Whoo hoo, finished and in 6 hours from leaving for our first trip to Lowe's till done and cleaned up, we rock! We ended up only needing 50 bags of cement, but we will need more anyways for the rest of the project. I am sooooo excited, can't wait to start building the walls.
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