A big day today, a wonderful completion to many man hours of preparation for all. Today we poured the concrete slab (losa de concreto). Here in Mexico this is a milestone and mas o manos 20-25 % of the way to completion of the entire home. Our construction workers, one of José’s best crews, live an hour drive from here and arrived at 7:30 this morning to make some final checks and adjustments before the concrete pump truck arrived to set up for receiving one cement truck after the next until we’re fully poured.

Many homes are built here Mexico by mixing the concrete on the dirt with a bucket of water and men stirring the mix with shovels as skilled as a pastry chef with a spatula and a bowl. Poco a poco, little by little the concrete is mixed and poured in small areas until eventually, wallah, one has a slab.

The crazy gringo...this is why he loves it here...very few rules.

first pour i was ever on as a laborer i watched my foreman grab the hose and ride it from column to column

Doesn't everybody ride the boom? You can see everything and best of all you can't hear if anyone nags at you...

Only needs a mounted recliner chair, beer holder and ipod connector...lol

Hey,he can see the pour,hopper and outriggers from this vantage point.

If he falls, is he a moron, or is this a tragedy?  Good, safe and competant operators sitting at home, and this guy is working.  Noone said life was fair.  This would never happen on my job.

Must be take action by any safty department.

I dont want to call him as a pump operator because the actual pump operator is not like him.

 Lets not forget that pump operators in MEXICO get paid $12 a day.

 I got a swivel seat on my boom? I got it off an old logg'n truck. (looking for a cup holder?)