It's about time.... Contest Inside!

[AshesTwoAshes]

Thanks for the fun contest & congrats to the winner! It looks awesome Paul!

 

[LarryH]

The walkway does look great Paul. :thumbs:  I'm pretty sure I lied to you in the PM.  But not on purpose.  Story to follow.
 
Initially I made an educated guess that the distance between the columns on Paul's deck was 8' and used it to help estimate the overall length of the walkway and the width of a stair tread (9") to estimate the walkway width.  That must have been somewhere around my first guess of 350.  I started using a spreadsheet to keep up with all the guesses and then started sorting them to find unused numbers.  I would guess in an unused range.
 
 
I told Paul in the PM that I had randomly guessed 433 later on from the spreadsheet but as it turns out that's not the case.  It was bothering me because I had in my head that mid 400's was closer to my calculations.  I went back through the thread and found the figures Paul gave for depth (7") and number of yards (2.5) of crushed stone. I still have the figures stored in the calculator on my old Palm PDA.  If you take the area of a 2.5 cubic yard block that is 7" deep and divide by the average area of the two blocks you get 432.8.  I'm not positive but I think I rounded up to 433 from there.  That was also my next guess after Paul gave the final 2.5 yard figure.  What's hard for me to believe is that it came out to almost the block.
 
What's even more amazing and lucky for me is that fjldo missed it by 1! 
 
Thanks for the contest Paul.  Did you know you were giving the answer when you gave us those last figures?

 

[Tall Paul]

LARRY YOU AMAZE ME... LOL
 
No I had no Idea and didn't even figure that the yards of stone/depth of the hole would give it away. WOW! If you think about it closer that half is most likely taken the place of the 5 blocks I trimmed at the end by the driveway. 
 
Nice work brother,
Paul

 

[modo22]

Congrats Larry!!
 
Thanks for the fun Paul, it looks great!!

 

[thechenman]

What?  I can't believe my guess of 1 brick didn't win!  Oh well...easy come...easy go.
 
Great work Paul.  Hope you celebrated with a cold beer and cigar.

 

[Tall Paul]

Out the door tomorrow!
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[extremeXconcepts]

The walkway does look great Paul. :thumbs:  I'm pretty sure I lied to you in the PM.  But not on purpose.  Story to follow.
 
Initially I made an educated guess that the distance between the columns on Paul's deck was 8' and used it to help estimate the overall length of the walkway and the width of a stair tread (9") to estimate the walkway width.  That must have been somewhere around my first guess of 350.  I started using a spreadsheet to keep up with all the guesses and then started sorting them to find unused numbers.  I would guess in an unused range.
 
 
I told Paul in the PM that I had randomly guessed 433 later on from the spreadsheet but as it turns out that's not the case.  It was bothering me because I had in my head that mid 400's was closer to my calculations.  I went back through the thread and found the figures Paul gave for depth (7") and number of yards (2.5) of crushed stone. I still have the figures stored in the calculator on my old Palm PDA.  If you take the area of a 2.5 cubic yard block that is 7" deep and divide by the average area of the two blocks you get 432.8.  I'm not positive but I think I rounded up to 433 from there.  That was also my next guess after Paul gave the final 2.5 yard figure.  What's hard for me to believe is that it came out to almost the block.
 
What's even more amazing and lucky for me is that fjldo missed it by 1! 
 
Thanks for the contest Paul.  Did you know you were giving the answer when you gave us those last figures?

 
 
As Billy Madison Said: Hes good!

http://youtu.be/4BMO-Ll_uj4

 

[fjldo]

The walkway does look great Paul. :thumbs: I'm pretty sure I lied to you in the PM. But not on purpose. Story to follow.

Initially I made an educated guess that the distance between the columns on Paul's deck was 8' and used it to help estimate the overall length of the walkway and the width of a stair tread (9") to estimate the walkway width. That must have been somewhere around my first guess of 350. I started using a spreadsheet to keep up with all the guesses and then started sorting them to find unused numbers. I would guess in an unused range.


I told Paul in the PM that I had randomly guessed 433 later on from the spreadsheet but as it turns out that's not the case. It was bothering me because I had in my head that mid 400's was closer to my calculations. I went back through the thread and found the figures Paul gave for depth (7") and number of yards (2.5) of crushed stone. I still have the figures stored in the calculator on my old Palm PDA. If you take the area of a 2.5 cubic yard block that is 7" deep and divide by the average area of the two blocks you get 432.8. I'm not positive but I think I rounded up to 433 from there. That was also my next guess after Paul gave the final 2.5 yard figure. What's hard for me to believe is that it came out to almost the block.

What's even more amazing and lucky for me is that fjldo missed it by 1!

Thanks for the contest Paul. Did you know you were giving the answer when you gave us those last figures?

I'll give you the same mantra I use when I play golf....I'd rather be lucky than good!!!...lol

 

[CMontoya79]

Nice work Paul, congrats LarryH!

 

[bluue13]

433!!
 
Did I win?  Haha, congrats Larry! 
 
Paul that is impressive work.  The wife and I were gonna lay our own patio last year but we ended up just going poured concrete because I didn't trust myself to do it correctly.  It ended up coming out beautifully and I'm glad I had someone do it for us, but I know there is great reward in doing renovation work yourself. We've done plenty in our place!

 

[Tall Paul]

433!!
 
Did I win?  Haha, congrats Larry! 
 
Paul that is impressive work.  The wife and I were gonna lay our own patio last year but we ended up just going poured concrete because I didn't trust myself to do it correctly.  It ended up coming out beautifully and I'm glad I had someone do it for us, but I know there is great reward in doing renovation work yourself. We've done plenty in our place!

 
I appreciate that and yes I hear yea. We have pretty much remodeled our entire house and property our selves over the last 4+ years. I love that sense of accomplishment! 

 

[coopsdeloops]

That's some crazy math. Like 10 sticks worth larry. And im asian!!!

 

[LarryH]

That's some crazy math. Like 10 sticks worth larry. And im asian!!!

Thanks coops. When you combine an engineer and a DIY'er those kinds of caclculations come pretty easy.

My prize arrived yesterday Paul. That was a very generous package. Thank You very much!

 

[Tall Paul]

 

That's some crazy math. Like 10 sticks worth larry. And im asian!!!

Thanks coops. When you combine an engineer and a DIY'er those kinds of caclculations come pretty easy.

My prize arrived yesterday Paul. That was a very generous package. Thank You very much!
 

 
Your welcome and thanks for playing!
 
Paul

 

[Set-In-Stone]

Wow... Nice job Larry! Who do you like in todays football games?  :laugh:
 
Great job on the walkway Paul. It came out amazing !

 

[Tall Paul]

Final pic I just got around to uploading!
 

 

 

 

 
Thanks again everyone for playing and all the help and motivation!
 
Paul 

 

[LarryH]

Nice job Paul!  You'll be enjoying that for years.

 

[extremeXconcepts]

Looks great! The smoke stack to the left of the house.....is that so you can smoke cigars in the house and have proper ventilation??? Ha! Good job.

 

[thefatguy]

Nice job Paul, looks great.