Pouring the Basement Walls

After a long weekend of inactivity due to threatening weather, Monday broke beautiful, so the pouring of the basement walls commenced with vigor.

The huge, (did I say HUGE) concrete pumping machine stretched itself over the treetops to allow the guy at the other end of it direct the concrete into the forms. My brother, Marc, can easily recall schlepping wheelbarrows full of this stuff along creeky, thin wooden planks to pour.

This seems faster and safer.

And the thing is operated by remote control, "like a big video game", says Ken, the operator.

Here it is in action: