4 hours out of me. That's all I could muster. After walking all of that land pushing that seed spreader? I was toast. My legs are hurting. They aren't just sore, they are in pain. Well, not so much now that I'm sitting down.
I'm resting the rest of today and if the rain doesn't start early tomorrow, I'll go back out there and start pounding in fence posts. I dunno, maybe if my legs stop giving me the "don't even try to do anything else today" message, I'll go out back and start cutting the pieces of the benches.
I doubt it tho.
As it stands, I did end up going to 2 rock places to get quotes on crushed concrete. The end story is - it isn't worth it. The first place - which is the place that sold the gravel to my contractor - doesn't even carry it, but, he will sell some other stuff, which is much better quality, for $550 per truckload delivered.
Now look, I just spent 28k on gravel, I'm none too keen on having to spend another 4k plus on even more of that stuff. He said there was only one place in town that sells crushed concrete, named off the place and then said he had some "stuff" in the back that he got from a concrete plant that he would sell me for $250 per load, delivered.
It was weird, sticky stuff. He said there was some kind of "oil" in it but said he didn't know the deal about it. Yea, I believe that, not. Whatever it is, I don't want it. It stuck all over my shoes and plastered itself to my rubber floor mat in my SUV. I said thank you and left.
Went to the other place. They want $503 per truckload for crushed concrete, delivered. That's very high for material that they don't produce. Crushed concrete is made from old concrete that has been removed from wherever, taken to a crushing operation, put in a giant machine, crushed and out comes the product. They don't have to mine it like everything else.
Everything else they have to mine it and still have to put it in a crusher and all the rest of it. I was pretty appalled at that quote.
I then called another place that only does crushed concrete. The guy told me $900 per 25 ton load, delivered. But if you do the math, that's $36 per ton. I mean, I am getting the shaft regardless and since that's the case, I might as well just go with the guy that supplied the SB2 and get that iron ore stuff he will sell for $550 per load. It's much better material and is actually the stuff that's already on that driveway.
It's just the stuff already on the driveway? Has been there so long it's no longer gravel. It's just fine powder that is getting worse and worse as each day passes and their pickups drive back there and mine as well.
So kiss another $4,400 goodbye. I have NO choice. It's not "I have very little choice". It's a big no at this point. I either do that or have some pretty pissed off customers driving in over dirt and mud, getting their rigs dirty and getting their tires all muddy every time it rains.
There's some places in Shreveport and Longview that sell, but even if they are selling it cheaper, the shipping costs will negate any savings.
Oh well. Just eat it I guess and move on.
I dunno, but I'll wait on that until closer to opening day for that. I mean, opening day was supposed to be in 3 days, but there is no way that is happening. Tomorrow it's supposed to rain and I surely hope it does, but at the same time, I hope it's just a light sprinkle, nothing heavy.
