Day 8: First Pour

Vollmer Ready Mix delivers the first of what will be
many loads of cement to complete the project



Today for me seems to be the beginning of the fix it up. Until now it has been clean up to see what's there and support what can be with wood cribbing, jacks and braces. But with the two piers being poured, the barn is actually beginning to be fixed.
The piers which are like flying buttresses are explained in other posts. What I find interesting about today's photo is the ingenuity of getting a heavy cement truck high enough to do the pour, when it just didn't quite have it. Note the 4x4 timbers the men ramped the truck up onto. It works.