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My boss's truck backed over the fresh walkway we just poured
We were doing a driveway and walkway on a house in Eugene last spring. Right after we finished troweling the walk, the boss gets a call and hops in his F-250, forgot we had it blocked off. He backed clean over about 8 feet of it before anyone could yell. We ended up chipping it all out and repouring that section the next day, took an extra 4 hours. Anyone else have a job site vehicle run through green concrete?
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paulnguyen2d ago
That "forgot we had it blocked off" part hit close to home. We had a similar situation a few years back where a crew member's personal car rolled through a garage slab we'd finished about an hour prior. The parking brake didn't hold and it rolled right down the driveway. We had to cut out a big rectangle around the tire tracks and patch it in. What worked for us was marking off the whole area with those tall orange construction barrels, not just cones or tape. Made it harder to miss even if someone was distracted. Also learned to always have someone physically standing watch during the whole curing period, not just right after the pour. Saves a lot of headaches.
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joseph_green132d ago
Gotta disagree with you on the standing watch thing. You're basically paying a guy to stare at concrete for a full day. That's expensive labor hours you could use somewhere else. We've poured hundreds of slabs and just use barrels and stakes. Never had an issue. The barrels work fine if you set them up right. Having a guy babysit wet concrete seems like overkill when you can just put up better barriers. Honestly sounds like your crew needs more training on parking brakes or setting chocks.
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