After the footings were poured and dried, we began setting the forms for the walls out of plywood, 2 by 4's, snap ties and their brackets. The walls will be 4 foot high.
We had to put lots of re-bar in the walls before we placed the plywood, because it was hard for Daniel to slither down between the plywood to tie the re-bar in.
Hayden and Russell used their muscles to hammer and sandwich the 2 by 4's into place while the bracket got hammered into place.
The walls looked pretty unique with all the brackets and wood.
Hayden worked hard not too hit his thumb in the process of getting the brackets on.
The walls were not as straight as Russell wanted, so he went and purchased lots of angle iron to give the strength to the plywood to keep it straight. Good thinking, look how straight the wall is and how the plywood matches up.
We had to order a pumper truck because of the height of the walls. Boy, did it help in getting the concrete right where it was needed.
The guys are having a discussion to see how the work was going to be divided up, another words, who is really in charge?
As you can see, Russell is the man with the power, or should we say the King of the Concrete.
Daniel is using the re-bar to get out any unnecessary air pockets. Boy did he work up a sweat. I am just glad he did not fall off the forms.
The tops look smooth and know time to let it dry, the real truth will be when the forms come off and how we did.
Russell did put these boards to brace the walls with the weight of the concrete.
Time to start tearing off the forms to see how we did. As you can see with Dalton, you must look up so the bracket doesn't jump up and get you. He hurt his head pretty badly, at least there was not much blood. We did hire two boys from the ward to help tear off the forms. They were great help.
All the forms needed to be moved from the center of the shop so we did not have any accidents with someone falling. Daniel and JJ were great carriers.
Hayden stacked the boards in the trailer so we would not have to pick them up again. This was genius thinking!
Dalton and Braxton liked posing for all the pictures they could. At least in this picture they both had hammers in their hands so they looked busy.
The walls look better than expected. There is only one corner, the one where we started and ended, that doesn't look the best. Russell has got something that comes in a bucket that will make it look better.
How does it look? We thought not bad. The next project is to haul in fill to raise up the ground level about two feet. Then, the floor will get poured. Part of the shop package will get delivered tomorrow morning. Our goal is to have it enclosed by winter.
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