Concrete Blob: DDay 2

In light of the increasingly difficult efforts of my concrete removal towards the end of the previous day I decided larger machinery would be required.
So I went down to the local Europcar and hired a ute for $55 (pretty cheap in my books) and then the tool hire next door and picked up a generator and jack hammer for $140, and the hire guy threw in a 30 metre power cable, bless his soul.



The Hitachi 19kg Jackhammer with point makes light work of the concrete, though most energy is used in holding it up and pulling it out of the broken concrete.

The ute 80% loaded with the concrete. Generator can be seen on the back.

Almost finished clearing the concrete blob.

All in all it was only an extra 3 hours work for me to break the remain concrete up and shovel it into the back of the ute. Once fully loaded the tires on the ute were looking they were about to explode. So it would have to be easy travelling some 14 kms or so to the Werribee dump.

I knew I had to make the dumps 4pm closing deadline as not making it to the dump that day wasnt an option. So I was quite rushed to get the tarpaulin over the top, and luckliy had enough rope to die it down. The last thing I wanted was any of the concrete debris to come flying off the back into another car on the road.

So the weekend was quite productive and Im pretty sure I wouldve saved a lot of money doing it myself than having to rely on the builder doing it and charging me thousands of dollars, though in saying that I was running round the whole weekend coordinating this cleaning effort! Well goes to show if you want to do things on the cheap then youve got to be prepared to spent a bit of your own time sourcing the right tools to do the right job.