New toy. Demolition jack.

[Sharps40]

Happy 60th birthday to me, coming up. Her name is Orange Crush. In 3 hrs she knocked down close to half of a reinforced block wall that was failing.

She's a Beast I believe only a Baby Boomer can use. She's way too much Gal for them Wilted-Strawberry-Lives-With-Mommy Generations that followed.

Hoo Ahh! Smash that wall!

 

[Inglis]

We will call you the termerator.

 

[Sharps40]

If it don't kill me, I'll muscle up to a Demolition Tyrannosaurus.

 

[noway2]

Congratulations. A few weeks ago, I got her baby sister. A 40lb demolition hammer. Who would’ve thought you need a jack hammer to dig an 18” hole in this soil. Now I understand why everybody and their brother has an excavator.

 

[Sharps40]

Yep. I put in 44 wood fence posts in March. Each 3 ft deep. All dug with clam shovel and digging iron. 3 mornings work in the dampish clay. Came close to killing me but for sure woulda slayed a fluffyboi.

 

[Sharps40]

Time for 6 year maintenance. So with help from Orange Crush to break the clay, I dug up the Farm Pond. Tanker next week to relocate the Brown Trout.

Wife's commentary, "Nice. Not a single chisel mark on the top.". How's that for observant......

 

[Sharps40]

Finished busting down both my walls. All the tension is off the foundation, safe again. Insurance wouldn't fix it unless the foundation was damaged by fire or explosion. But under $200 and under 20 hrs work, its all in but the clean up and moving yards and yards of dirt. 34 years ago, Buck built one heckofa house. That wall was block, with rebar and concrete filler. But,no match for Orange Crush.

Anybody needs a jack hammer, shout out. I've been transformed into a Tyrant-as-sore-as and officially done breaking block walls.

As for the job.....I'm getting too old for this stuff.

 

[Chriselalto]

Cool, you going to do a concrete wall? Or let nature slope the hill down?

 

[Sharps40]

Right now, rain is sloping it. Soon I'll get the tractor out and cut the slope back and more than quadruple my backstop. And I sold the jack for $100 so my total cost to remove the wall was $39.