Hey, Ask Lemmy, we all know that people love to talk about themselves, and I’d love to hear about some of your pleasant experiences. So, please, no matter how big; no matter how small, tell me something that you are proud to have made :)

  • Jhex@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 days ago

    made a concrete sidewalk on the side of my house… 67 concrete bags mixed with a drill and attachment

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Jesus that’s really impressive! We did a small patio. Harbor freight concrete mixer for the win. I’m just seriously shocked. What drill held up to that hell?

      • Jhex@lemmy.world
        2·
        18 hours ago

        Thanks kind stranger!

        This is one of the pics my wife took, the run starts about 3 meters (9 feet) back from where the pic was taken

        And this was the man of the hour:

        https://www.princessauto.com/en/product/5-8-in-d-handle-mixer-drill/PA0009183518/9183518

        I bought a large rubber tub (I think they are intended to feed cattle) which worked out great since it could take the hits from the drill without cracking. I would toss a sack in (still in bag), pour water around it and then cut it open. The water would minimize the amount of cement dust in the air and minimize clumping (compared to pouring the water on top of the concrete mix)

        Once sack at at time, pour, mix, shovel into area… repeat

          • Jhex@lemmy.world
            1·
            11 hours ago

            Thanks!

            Yes, we bought a “slate rock” silicon piece to give it the texture and a grid to stamp it. If you look closely, you can see the proper pattern repeating in the middle of the slab and we had to manually stamp the edges (mostly with a small stick the tickness of the grid and a handle that my son 3D printed)