More concrete - 2nd side of house

A couple weekends ago we poured concrete for the porch posts on the south side of the house. I had to work part of the day...had to give a presentation at a first time home buyers workshop. Fun! So my contribution to the work that day was to cut and tie rebar. There are 28 (?) porch posts around the house. We had already finished the ones on the front of the house, obviously. So before I went to work I made 6 more squares of rebar for the holes that Dana and Dennis were going to pour that day. When I came home I made the remaining 13, to try to get ahead of the game a little bit for the next pouring weekend.

Dana and I had dug the holes for the concrete one night after work that week and then the next night he and Leonard built the forms, which is no small job. It made it easier for pouring day, as all the guys then had to do was mix and pour the concrete.

We've been using Leonard's concrete mixer, which is great because we can pull it to right in front of the hole, mix the concrete and then try to dump it right in the hole. Of course it can't be just that easy though, so we had to build a wooden chute to catch the concrete, and then use a shovel to get it all in the hole. It takes about two full mixes to fill up one hole.

Here's Dana and Dennis smoothing out the tops of the concrete before it fully dries. One more side down! Only two to go!