How could I forget?

We heading up north to check out Slayer, but before we did, we hit the Creature Dome...

Then more blood shed...

Pier 62

I let Lance ponder his back yard while I pondered this...



Irene was there... she's better than you.






Marshall has "tricks"

Black Slab-bath

19 bags of crete. myself and the little guy in the back had some work ahead of us the other morning. not so great view of the form and the gravel leveled up to the bottom of the form, on the left hand side. i supported the forms with hand-made stakes, screwed into the form...and with large rocks dug into the ground. pretty janky. at the end of a couple hours, this is where i was....

got a little artsy while i was trying to send a message to my boys ...

but this is a good view of where i was after screeding, mag troweling and finally, using the pool trowel to finish..

this is the seam connecting the slab to the previously poured quarter pipe. a little sweeping then grinding after she's cured and it'll be good to go.

2nd pour came and went. hopefully it'll be cured enough to skate by the end of the week. this pour was a little extra wet (nice) because i was a little afraid that the crete would go off too quickly like with the last pour. 3rd time's the charm. until next time

--d4L

Concrete

The shit rules. Right?

Well I for one do not get to grind nearly enough of it lately. So we got the hell outta the Gayrage, headed out back, and grabbed a couple of these.

I cleared a spot. PJ designed and cut the forms.

Keith and Ry joined me 'n PJ one Sunday when we could've all been spending some quality time with our beloved families. On top of that, none of us has any real experience with pouring concrete. But with a little (little??) hard work, some tips from youtube, multiple Budweisers and some luck, we came up with this. It's a tough angle, but the ramp is roughly 3 ft high and a little over 5 ft wide.

Actually, we came up with something a lot worse than that at the end of the day. The quarterpipe was (is?) in rough shape on the surface. I'll spare you the details, but concrete goes off fast, particularly when you mix some dry crete on a real hot day....that's lesson 1 for today.

So, we had a really shitty surface. Totally not skateable at first. Depression set in, but shit, if we can build a bowl in a one-car garage, we can pour a quarter pipe. Right? Bueller?

Anyway, I've spent the past couple weeks resurfacing the quarter with some real good, life saving shit for all inexperienced masons, called Cement All. The rest of the time I've been leveling out the flat area. This is where we're at....

What in the hell are we building out back? God only knows. We have no idea. But we'll share the photos as we progress.

-D4L