Note to file: 8 foot tall concrete forms require bracing every foot for the first 5 feet from the bottom. The shed columns are going to have a somewhat (dare I say, “attractive”) curvy look where the plywood blew out between the braces that were placed two feet apart. Further note to file: cutting the form tops off flush with the level lines would have made smoothing the concrete and getting them all the same height MUCH easier. Also should have inserted threaded rod into each column form after the concrete was poured vice installing J-bolts ahead of time. The crew for the big pier pour consisted of Jeff Parent (half-owner of Parent Construction), his daughter, Charlotte (home for the summer from Northeastern University, one of my alma maters), Jim (recent high school graduate and Parent Construction strong back), Josh LaFlam, Marty Lapidus, Chree, and I. Even with all that help, we could have used a couple more hands. Jeff brought along a trailer concrete pumper so that we could get the mix from the Carrara Concrete truck into the column forms via a 2 ½ inch hose. Glad I ordered 4 yards vice the 3½ my calculations showed we would need. By 11:00 all the concrete was in the forms and the truck and pumper were gone; by 1:00 Josh and I had finished sort-of smoothing the pier tops and cleaning up around the edges. We both then dove in the lake to cool off before lunch. Overall quality of the piers TBD but initial impressions are that they aren’t horrible… except for the blowouts at the bottom of almost every form. After returning Josh to his home and the concrete vibrator to Taylor Rental, continued wheel barrowing gravel to level the spot where the shed underground roof will be formed and poured.