Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The rock chucker

The footing is poured and the wooden boards that framed the concrete where taken off yesterday by the boys, Colton, Mathew and Edmond.

Then the exciting part came. The rock chucker. Most times when building a house, people get a truck that dumps the gravel for under the concrete floor and you have to shovel and wheel barrel it into place. But Dean heard about this truck that can throw the gravel into place from any corner of the basement. It came to fill the ground yesterday afternnoon. It was really fun to watch. The kids all thought that would be a fun job to have. The driver climber up to the back of the truck and got his controls ready and the chute slid out from the truck and the small gravel shot off into all the corners. The boys where also very excited to know they would not have to shovel again like they did with the concrete footing.

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