Whew! - What a job

I am always absolutely amazed at how hard people work here and some of the things they do.

This is one of my favorites sights, watching a crew pour the cement for a roof.

 

It always goes something like this, but sometimes the cement is hand-mixed, adding even more intense manual labor to the process.

In this case, just down the road from me, they had a mixer, but the ongoing activity was wild to watch as someone was shoveling sand, another was loading the mixer, others were carrying the stuff up to the roof, where others put the finishing touches and smoothed the mixture.

Once started, the process has to continue until the entire roof is poured as the concrete needs to set as a whole.  Just watching these guys work made me tired.  How do they do it?

I imagined running up those hand-made ladders with a five gallon bucket full of cement on my shoulder and I am pretty sure I would struggle with the first one and I am in good shape.   What's more, they are acting like it is one big party, a good time being had by all.  I love it.