Ignore all of the idiots that give out negative comments. It's YOUR job. You do it how you want. I appreciate your taking the time to make these videos. The youtube "experts" are sitting on there ass at home and proably have never touched wet concrete or even published a youtube video. Please keep up the good work !!!

You did a damn fine job for 1 man, and the video was well done. Your grandpa is proud I'm sure, and rightly so.

Good job on the first pad square. I found that using a reciprocating saw without a blade on the forms help remove the voids. Not such a big deal on the inside edges that will have another pad poured up against it, but on the outside it would be a good idea. It costs a lot for a contractor do do the job because its a lot of manual labour. If you are willing to do it, you can save a lot of money.

I would conciser repositioning the mixer and dump directly in the form to save some hauling

Don't let the youtube schmucks change how you operate Your channel. The algorithm is working. I subbed

There will always be armchair critics. I just bought that same mixer. Instructions sucked but I’m ready to start several projects. Good job.

I've been using my HF crment mixer for around 5 years now, just small things 2x2x3 pads, 10x12 shed slabs, when I need to do over 25 fence post holes. It's been holding up just fine, even built it a ramp that hangs on that solid bar below the drum so I don't have to empty the contents into a wheel barrow. Solid $189 purchase

Pls keep us updated on this project would love to keep seeing the progress!

You do you, I’ve done the same thing with my inexpensive Princess Auto mixer here in Canada and it has worked out fine. Did a 12x20 workshop floor for my shed and everything is fine, small expected cracks after putting my cj5 in and jacking but over all, great.

Awesome freaking job, bro! Just what I needed.

Looks good Jeff I’m going to keep watching Thanks one man can do it if he wants to 👍

Build a chute and set up closer to your form. That way, u can eliminate the wheelbarrow and the hauling. Don't pay attention to the ex-squirts. 😂

I have the same mixer. It was cheap but works good for the past 2 years. I find it easier to to pour directly into form and I also leave running when I pour it out.

Wow that’s a huge job to do yourself. If it were me I’d buy one of those mudmixer machines and then sell it after the job is done. Good work!

Nice job, I never thought about screeding as you go. That looks like a good idea.

I've poured several of these through the years, I did an 8X10 x 4" using sakrete concrete bags and by myself, hell of days workout and it was much warmer, can't remember the amount of bags but it was like over 40 I think, one thing to note if you didn't is oil those forms so they come off super easy. I did another 10 x 12 one time and hired a cement truck to come pour it all. My sides had lots spots like yours where the concrete didn't settle properly, if you can find a concrete vibrator that would eliminate that just by running it around the sides. Over all nice job on mixing it yourself and it turned out great, good luck with the rest of them.

It looks fine bro

Good job Jeff. Are you going to drill holes and put rebar in between each pad to tie them all together? Going to be a nice floor for your building!

To raise the PSI with the concrete you can add more cement, as for the slump start out with adding a little water at a time to the consistency you think you’ll need so that it’s not too watery and it won’t take long to dry and harden.

Love your video! Thank you for it!!! It has all the questions I have for a do it yourself guy!!!

I think you did well and saved money great job!

You did good for your 1st one! ❤❤❤

Looks like it turned out good! You save a lot of money when you're willing to learn and put in some work.

We just did the same thing this weekend. A 4m (13') x 3m (10') x 10 cm (4") slab broken into 4 equal parts of 1m (3.3') x 3m (10'), with inter-connecting 1/2" rebar (by way of notches in the form that will "slide" into the next quarter as we get to pour it). The rebar was sitting on 3" dobies, some of which toppled over. The entire form is on builders plastic. For the first quarter (which was in most areas closer to 6" deep) we went through 10 mixers-full, each consisting of * 1 bag of 25kg 42.N portland cement * 22 shovels of 0-32 mm ballast (rock/sand mix) I think we got approximately the same result in similar weather conditions. Key difference maybe is that we used a vibrator (which aids in moving the mud around inside the form and reducing honeycombing, but I think also brings bleed water to the top maybe a bit too early). Used an aluminium screed bar. Used magnesium floats. I didn't get to the broom since we needed to get a move on as it was getting late, and also the available brooms in the EU are a bit crappy. For the 2nd quarter this weekend, I will try to run a wooden bullfloat that I made in between the screeding and floating. Hopefully I can get to the broom. Dunno how to post a pic anywhere on utube to show my results, but would like to. Good to see some other poor bastard giving this a go. Shout out to @AJDIYNetwork who also posted a nice vid on the same method.

Hats off to you for making it happen! Bummed that you forgot the vapor barrier, once enclosed your floor will sweat bad on humid days. But hey, you’re making it happen and that’s a really huge deal! Keep up the good work.

Awesome job bro!

Even Mike Day gets haters and he has over 30 years experience. Don't worry about those folks. If you want to save yourself a few trips with the wheelbarrow, try two dumps from the mixer into it. Also I will always do a test pull with my broom if I'm not happy with it I just hand float over it or bull float and I just want a little longer. Great video looking forward for the next one.

Nice work!

You have no vapor barrier under your slab. You can get water under the slab even with proper drainage.

Great video. I'm going to pour my own footers so this was very helpful. I have a small channel and as others have said, I just ignore the haters. Actually, I thank them for watching. :) We (non-professionals) watch these videos to learn how to do things. As I said before, this is going to be very helpful. Thanks for taking the time.

No matter your experience you did and excellent job .

Nice work.

Good concrete work, Jeff! However, if you plan to put any type of weight bearing structure on these slabs, you would really need some footers in place. Otherwise, it's gonna be a troublesome experience. Generally, weight bearing load structures require a footing to be placed 12" below the frost line in your area. As @wisdomtrek1 mentioned, a monolithic slab would be the way to go with proper footers incorporated. A few cement trucks and a properly prepared base could be done in a day. Then, you could build whatever you want on top of it. Still, love your grit and tenacity as well as your videos! :)

Same Harbor Freight mixer broke in 6 hours of use good luck

I’m not a know it all and not in any way criticizing I drove a mixer for twenty eight years and can’t tell you how many times home owners put mesh in and leave it on the bottom of the concrete. That won’t do one bit of good. You have to pull it up as you go so it’s in the middle of the concrete. It looks really good also I hope all of those small slabs don’t heave differently and leave you with an un even floor. Looks like your gonna have a ton of water flow off that hill and under the slab. Again good job and good luck!

Awesome Job, ignore those negative comments.

Is it cheaper to buy bags of concrete or use a Portland mix. I ask because I am about to poor a slab in my barn. Videos like this are a huge help! Thank you

Looks good bro

Just stumbled over this video and had an idea while watching. Could you use a section of rain gutter and bypass the wheelbarrow all together like a cement truck. I don't know, would the rain gutter be wide enough for the idea to work, or something similar shape.

Curious for a dog kennel 20 x 15 you think 6 inches is to much or i can get away with 2

Looks good. How are you going to keep the pads to hold together?

I'm a fan of doing things myself and as long as you tie them together with rebar and some of that concrete bonding stuff on the edges should be just fine.

How do you plan to connect the next pad to this one? With rebar?

genuine question: if this is for a house, wouldn't the separate slabs move independently over time?

I enjoyed your previous video and have told the story to several people of this guy who was a big enough beast to take on a large pad by himself and do a decent job on it.

Whaddaya do if it rains on your sand? Is there any way to keep that dry

You do a good job. & Kno wat you're doing.

Man I'm about to get some land in TX and want to do this exact same thing, just a little thicker from tractor trailers and equipment machines.

Big job but you’ll save money if you don’t mind the labor just spread it over a week or so and you’ll have it man . Good job

20x30 40-50k cnd good luck 💪

By doing it yourself, I’m guessing is cheaper than getting a concrete truck. Just asking because that’s a lot of work for one guy

Rebar needs to float off the ground half the height of the pour. Go in there with a hammer and it will be easy to demo. None of the rebar will be attached to the concrete. It will still be laying on the ground in the same place. Ask me how I know. 😢

That was a Ton of gravel?

That's not a concrete Spike that's a 3/8 drive extension for your toolbox friend

:02 The pic of the slab would be a better thumbnail, you’ll get way more clicks

If you didn't figure it out, leaving one form board off until later at the end would have saved you a lot of moving of the concrete lol

It's always going to be cheaper product wise to DIY, but what's your time worth to you? Gotta factor that in. I used to try and do everything myself too but in all honesty, I'd rather pay an expert that will do it right and offer me a warranty so I can go do things I enjoy instead. But nice job none the less

I'd have done 4-2-1 mix, and id have filled the barrow before tipping into the form.

if you formed up the pad, placed WWF (Rebar), placed the stone and hired a crew to place concrete....you might save some money actually, cost of tools , mixer, headache, good job though. A five man crew could that that entire thing done in no time with one load or two of trucks, you might be loosing money actually.

Cut it real close on large rock

I would order concert it's the same price and less work

Second time you said 7 bags of this Portland., WHAT?😂

Wow! I thought each batch would go farther then what they did. It is a shame you didnt have help. One or two guys mixing while the other guy pours prferably maybe even another mixing machine on hand. One guy looks good for maybe fence posts but above that looks like its too time consuming. Show this video to your friends and they should be ashamed of themselves for not helping in some fashion.

Me and my husband used the cement mixer from Harbor Frieght, and it did a good job. We put in a whole bunch of cement posts under the house for a new foundation for a pier and beam home. I shoveled and mixed the concrete while he ran the cement to the posts. And he said I didn’t love him.

There will always be fools who agree with the way you're doing this. In fact, you did not raise the mesh and inch or so into the crete, your joints will require you drill and insert rebar to tie the squares together (or they'lll settle independantly), you run the risk of cold joints between "batches". At least get another to mix while you screed. I could go on, but we all know it just ain't that expensive to buy truckloads of redimix concrete, delivered. So what's the purpose of this self-torture?