When my buddy and i built the shop at the time we had Coal buckets and we came home loaded most of the time , And the trucks weighed in at times over 140000 lbs . Now we built this shop from the ground up i did the grading and my buddy who is much better at running the old loose backhoe dug the footers . It was a Butler 40x75 x14 the only thing that we did not do was set the four anchor points . We did the erecting and screwen in all the bolts by hand as we did not have any power at first . First year it was just a gravel floor and two plugs and one lite . Well layen on gravel once a week to grease the trucks change oil or do a brake job plum sucked . The next year we leveled out the gravel or slag as in our case and started first we poured from the walls out to the main door edge with 6 inches of six and a half sack mix with wire . We did a section at a time got most of both sides poured . Then we decided that we should install a drain and did some figuren and came up with a plan , first mistake did not put enough fall from the main door to the top of the drain 2 inches in fifty feet was not enough and two inches from the first pour to the top of the drain was not enough . We dug down two inches more so that the main area where all the weight was going to be would be 8 inches with wire . That part was wright . Over the years of big loads being backed in the main section never cracked . For that fact the only place in the whole shop that had a small crack was buy the old coal furnence , now i can under stand why that happened as at time old BERTHA would get the cherry glow to her all the way around and including the heat exchanger and pipe . After the floor was poured we did not wait for the week that we should have and backed both trucks in four days after the pour both thrck loaded to around 124000 with alloys and we did not have our new tarps till the next day as the old ones were rags and would not even keep the dew off on a dry night . The loads had to be kept dry or we would own it . Thought for sure that we would crack it but the concrete was cheaper then the loads. So other then not adding enough fall to the drain and doing 29 yards in one pour just the two of us by had no power trowel in one day i guess we did good.
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