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I can tell I am becoming a really old fart

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hey_moe

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Good grief, three weeks ago I decided to move our spa off the patio. I got the bright idea to move it twenty feet. When I went down to Pembroke Construction to get some advice on what they suggest for a footing, they said I would need 3 tons of gravel,1 ton of sand 2.7 ton of paver's.The pad was about 10x10. I was lucky I had a friend help. It took us a day to dig it out and lay it out. Then we went and got the 3 tons of gravel and hand carted it around the back of the house. A week later we did the same with the sand and paver's.The I got the bright idea and decide to build a 15 foot by 5 foot walk way to the patio to the spa and dug it out and did the same thing. This morning I am so sore and tight I can hardly move...lol. I know I is a puss.I had plenty of neighbors over watching and giving advice too. They had no problems drinking my beer and eating smoked beef and chicken while we worked....mainly they watched...lol. Anyway I can see I am not cut out for this kind of work.
 
Go Moe, make hay while the sun shines. In another ten years you won't even contemplate such an ordeal! :icon_lol:
 
Terry said:
Go Moe, make hay while the sun shines. In another ten years you won't even contemplate such an ordeal! :icon_lol:
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Pish. I don't even want to contemplate it now!

I know my neighbors were equally helpful when we were tree trimming. Although we did get a nice round of applause when we hit the house with a branch. (We did that mainly to quell their desire for us to trim their trees when we were finished with ours :wiggle:)

Brian
 
Don't think it is that you are old, but that is a lot of work for any man to accomplish with just a single friend! Doing metal work and stuff like that by myself is enough to wear me out depending on the size and scope of the project that is intended to be done. Can only imagine digging holes, moving gravel, and all of that. I haven't done that since I was a kid living at home helping my dad put up fences, porches, pools, and any other kind of project he could dream up. Next time just need to do a little more planning, and a lot less of "hey this is a good idea." That is always how you wind up in these situations. I know all to well myself.
 
When I first bought this house I'm living in presently fourteen years ago, I spent the hottest three months of summer building a 28'x18' deck -by myself!- around my 24' above ground pool (for which I had had hired someone else to install!)...

Twelve years later, I gave the pool to my neighbor because I wasn't physically able to maintain it as well as it should be, and hadn't actually swum in it for several years as the summer's were "too cold" to warm the water!

Now, I have this silly deck surrounding a 24' diameter 'sandpit' in the yard...:isadizzy:
 
n4gix said:
When I first bought this house I'm living in presently fourteen years ago, I spent the hottest three months of summer building a 28'x18' deck -by myself!- around my 24' above ground pool (for which I had had hired someone else to install!)...

Twelve years later, I gave the pool to my neighbor because I wasn't physically able to maintain it as well as it should be, and hadn't actually swum in it for several years as the summer's were "too cold" to warm the water!

Now, I have this silly deck surrounding a 24' diameter 'sandpit' in the yard...:isadizzy:
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Turn it into a flower garden and enjoy looking at it all year.
 
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