I Made a BIG Mistake!! Footing pour 

I know this was not the most comfortable thing to share Tim, but thank you for always showing the mistakes. It absolutely taught me a thing or two, and I am sure others have benefited from this as well.

Structurally sound yes. Buried deeper than Jimmy Hoffa yes. $hit happens, your human. Screw the trolls and the haters who never post any of their work. Thanks for the content Tim.

So much better seeing this than people who only show off with edited footage or criticize but never show their own work.

This is incredible content. I can't think of any other pro posting videos of their mistakes. Thanks for your honesty and humility - super useful and refreshing in the fake RU-vid universe!

Massive respect to you for posting this. Everyone makes mistakes, it's how we recover from them that shows what we are really made of. I can think of a couple I've made at work recently....

What is easier than learning from your own mistakes? Learning from others. Thank you for sharing we appreciate you and content!

I tell my kids all the time that I rarely learned much from my wins, but boy oh boy do I learn a ton from my failures! Great video. Thanks again.

Thank you for explaining what happened and why. So many of us get to learn.

Tim you made a mistake, you owned up to it, you corrected it. Well done. Anyone who has ever done construction has been in your shoes. Thanks for sharing.

I love that you post the good, the bad, and the ugly. It is great to see the reality rather than the sanitised perspective. Keep it up and I'll keep watching

Good for you to show everyone makes mistakes. Lessons learned. Thanks Tim for the content.

Thanks for the video Tim. It's your character humour and honesty that keep me coming back to your channel

Thanks for sharing this and putting yourself out there like that! It’s courageous man! You know this is going to help a lot of us who are just getting our feet wet AND the self declared pros. ✊🏾 respect!!

Tim, I just subscribed yesterday so I can understand the fundamentals of footings. I'm learning so much from you. Your videos, and especially this one (only my 3rd to view) are outstanding ! You talk about materials, dimensions, processes, etc in wonderful detail. Even showing and talking about the mistakes is hugely instructive. Thank you man !

The way you dropped the piece in the water to hide it was hilarious, then quickly deciding you need it to fix it and frantically searching for it. Just hilarious.

Amazing humility man. You're right, things just happen sometimes. We have to have the emotional intelligence in how we handle it

Could have been worse. Glad it wasn’t a complete blowout. We appreciate the transparency!

Can't thank you enough .. all the vids are so educational and a super fast watch. The vids are packed with so much. Enjoyable and full of info. Bravo. Don't forget about us little guys from when you were 70k less subscribers as you are now. Super excited that the subs are flowing in ... You all do a superb job

Really appreciate when good tradesman show their mistakes, super instructive and also humanizing that even Awesome Framers make mistakes sometimes lol

There is so much about this entire situation that I love. Learning at its finest! You handled that so much better than I would have!

You guys aren’t perfect nor do you claim to be,that’s what makes you guys perfect. Great educational video.

Great video! My first ever footing pour is coming up (form-a-drain with lots of stakes and steel-mate for the verticals) so it good to see how things can go less than perfect and still be absolutely fine.

Hey man, great video. Making mistakes is how we learn in life, don't worry about the haters on here who have never touched a hammer. Kudos to you for not editing this out. I saw your short a few days ago and was glad to see the full vid, that's a subscribe from me! Mishaps will happen in construction, it's all about how we recover.

I’m glad you shared it. I find it therapeutic to edit my own mistakes from several different angles and I hope you do to. What other people take away from it is on them.

I learned more in those 35 minutes than in many 5 hours Architecture courses, and it was free, thank you very much for that !

Appreciate you showing reality. Btw, those bags seem great for isolating the pour from the pond

Thank you very much for sharing this! You got a like and a comment from me! The mistakes are far more educational than the rest... A blowout is a nightmare we all want to avoid! I will take extra precautions next time.

When I started my business 6yrs ago.... I stressed out on a regular. After this virus, I'm just on cruise mode. 1 day at a time. I can only control me and my actions. Logistics, work force and prices are out of my control. Stay strong brothers!

Thanks for sharing Tim. Appreciate your openness.

Beautiful! just beautiful! happens everyday all around the world. I'm envious of how awesome you handled it as it happened, that's why you're the AWESOME Framers

Sending you a bunch of love. We all have high points and low points. Thank you for sharing both.

To err is human but a clever repair is Devine.. thanks your Awesome…👍🏻🇨🇦

It happens to the best of us. We learn and move on. Thanks for sharing.

I poured a footing for a house in the country that was in an open field. It was just me and the concrete truck driver. I was very confident in my forms as they had been checked and rechecked. Everything went really well until the end when, because of the exposure to the sun and the 95° heat, I literally had a stroke right after the concrete guy drove off. Luckily, my neighbor was home and saw me go down. He ran over, dragged me into his yard, and sprayed me with the garden hose until I came to. I didn't realize I'd had a stroke, and neither did he. I'm lucky to be alive. Fortunately, I was way younger than I am now and in the best shape of my life when this incident occurred. The footing turned out mostly OK except for a short section that I never screeded off because I passed out and forgot about it after I came to. The block layers ended up telling me it was the flattest, most square footing they'd ever seen. I formed it myself. It took me about a week. No laser. Just a 6' Stabila level and a commitment to ZERO variance the entire time.

Last footing I did I had 3 problem areas. To be absolutely honest, I suspected they were insuffiently braced but just let it go because I "didn't have time". I was able to avoid any full blowouts (thankfully), but it gave me a lesson in complacency that I apparently needed

Yeah, thanks for sharing this. As a cabinet maker that knows almost nothing about footings and foundations, I can only think that some 3' bar clamps might be a possible help in this situation. Of course as a cabinet maker I have plenty of these on hand and not something a framer might have in their toolbox. I did have something similar happen once and it was also because something didn't get nailed or screwed together. It's easy to forget. Glad you had enough extra concrete to make it work.

Would love to see a site where no mistakes were made. Like a Big Foot sighting!!! Every talks about it but few, if anyone, ever sees them.

Thanks for showing this.

Bummer. Thank you for showing as a reminder. Belt and suspenders approach works. I like that you are thinking about 2x4 rather than 1x4 spreaders to give more clearance for finishing the top of the footer. Keep rockin it.

A true professional will always post both good and bad outcomes, thanks Tim

Man, I love that you post your mistakes. We all make them, at the worst times, including the princesses who act like they never make mistakes.

I once read that an expert is not someone who never makes a mistake. It is someone who knows how to fix his or her mistake after it happens.

Thanks for posting. Super helpful to see

Good job brother, appreciate your honey and professionalism

Silver lining Tim, it's stronger now. Every single one of us has been there, so many I'd do anything to go back and redo, but this is life.

I really like you were used of the pump it made the filling the form so much easier

Both educational and entertaining thanks for the knowledge and the laugh!

I’m going to be using fast foot on my own house that I’m starting next month. This has made me even more nervous about doing it but I’m definitely going to be paying a lot of attention to every detail! Thanks for posting this.

Been caught out with this a couple of times myself especially if its rained overnight and you pour the next morning. Now I triple brace everything to try an avoid this happening again.

I've seen so many tools thrown in disgust and petty yelling, it was refreshing to see a thing go sideways and everybody rolled with it. That mistake went better than a lot of successes I've endured.

Thank Tim!

It’s all good, you fixed it. And you know what they say “ if you don’t mess up ever, you’re not doing anything “. Have a great 4th of July!

Really man don’t beat yourself up! This stuff happens. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, then you haven’t been pouring concrete long enough. It’s how you learn. Also appreciate the subtle hat tip to us form carpenters/concrete guys at the beginning of the video. It is hard on the body, and the only thing that I found help is staying active in other areas of life. Even though that sounds counterintuitive.😉

Compliments to the chef for leaving it alone. Well done video

As a construction superintendent aka “babysitter” who for months was not aloud to wear his bags, which was checked by my bosses. I have the upmost respect for you and your building ethics, although we don’t each other, I’ve always felt you are friggen top tier professional and I think that even more now! As the leader of the squad, instead of passing the blame, (what every other PM/super/foreman would do) you took it, put out a video for others to learn from and had to read the “dumb masses” in the comments, rip ya to shreds! Don’t matter! You are as good as it gets, top tier pro, and unfortunately in the modern world of construction we as the leaders are on our own. I used to blame the fact my company would spread us “qualified idiots” so thin, we all had our own separate jobs to run, none of us had our right hand man (our offensive line) to check our “bag less” mistakes. I still refuse to pass the blame, but my bags are on! This day and age it’s us against the world!, “what do you got for me next” they ask, “we’ll number 1, if you can’t figure out what to do next,……never mind, Moooo sawwww…..Follow me, sorry for raising my voice. Ya know my name back when I was a grommet “Fu*kface….” Yep they’d yell hey F-face where’s F is my WOOD…..blocks fu** face, fireblocks 20 @14-7/16 ” and if they were 14-9/16” ? They’d Chuck em right into my sawhorses! Yep, I used to have to wear my nail bags at all times, even lunch….unless I wanted to pull em from whatever they found this time, worst was they’d nail em with 16galvi to the top side of a GLB” but, the best day of my life was when I finally got invited to have a beer with em, after work, I had made it! It was official! I earned their respect and we worked as such for many years! Still my best of friends! “Ya know it’s break, it’s actually 10:05am the new workers say, are still gonna continue these glory stories, I might take break in my car”…..no I’m done, no phone at break? Dude….I gotta blah blah, alright I was just jokin….phone’er out Timmy Mc millennial!

hurdles never roadblocks, one foot in front the other, keep on keeping on!!

I love that you show the f#-ups. You remind me of my first boss who never freaked out when something went wrong. My greatest lessons were learned from working with him.

way to keep ya'lls composure

Great save. I’m just amazed that pump operator was a beast

A bit of dented pride, honesty then a solution to get over the problem sorted. I was always taught when I was an apprentice 36ish years ago a f@#k wasn't a f@#k up if you could get over it. YOU GOT OVER IT.

We all make mistakes. Love the way ya handled it. Fix it move on.

I heard a great quote from Tom Bilyeu of the YT Channel "Impact Theory" say "Failure is one of the most information rich data streams that exists." Nice save - it could have been way worse. Love your content.

One thing I've learned. You can screw up but just make sure you have the fix. Cause everyone hates fixing someone else's screw up. For me in electrical (and can apply to any trade) the only concern with a screw up is hopefully no one gets hurt. In commercial it can be deadly if the screw up is found during power on.

Oef, what a pooper. Strong of you to show it. Have lots of why didn’t you’s in my head but they won’t help anyone. Thks for the video

As your brother is saying if we mess with it further and your saying yup and still messing with it lol. It happens Tim.

30:31 For that t-shirt you were thinking about, "Well! We're professionals." Also you are absolutely right, the only reason not to pour your footer wider is the extra cost of the concrete.

been nice to have had some bar clamps

Absolutely Awesome 🥳🥳🥳

Tim, consider using a water reducing admixture and increase the slump for those short footings.

Yea just got to learn from your mistakes and put the stakes deeper and more of them in areas that can hold water.

The trick is figuring out how to recover withe less stress and cost. I'd say you did purty good on that one.

Weird seeing concrete poured on soil. We've always poured on compacted gravel. Even footings.

I hear you.

you are human. thanks for all you do, i have learned a lot from your videos. thanks for sharing. maybe you will get more views for the screw up. . lol cheers!

Great video congratulations on 100k subs

Good video I like the comments of yup just walk away and you go and mess around with it again. I would suggest that you get a high lift jack for when you do your placement of concrete. Would easily span the footing and could pull the footer walls back into place. It would also be easier as there would be no jerky movements of the boards or large movement of the concrete. This would allow you to drop your spreader bars in place.

ducktape a roll of tie wire to keep it together, put a hole in center to pull wire through and suspend your bar from your spreaders as an alternative to dolbys

You are an F… Winner!!!! You Do you.

I'm glad you shared the mistake. We all learned a valuable lesson. You also showed us you're not some ego maniac that pretends their only capable of perfection.

Friendly suggestion : You could carry 4 foot pipe clamps, in case it happens again, you could squeeze back the walls in place with the clamps. Nice Attitude.

You don't use kickers on anything? This bag system is so great that they used it on the hoover dam

Excelente trabajo 👊 👊💯👏

I cant believe u dont give the pump guy doesnt get a helper... insane

Respect your man enough to post this … what’s the worst blow out you’ve had pouring walls ??

u learn from other people's mistakes, then u learn from your own mistakes

omg i cant stand bad mudd that comes out of a pump. did it clog up? thats the worst

If the sand in the mix is reclaimed or a manufactured sand, it will cause pumping issues with small line pumps. Request a natural sand in the mix design.

I think everyone who plans to build forms for other people to pour concrete into needs to see this. It's embarrassing enough when you made the mistake and then you and your team have to deal with the consequences. But imagine if you'd built the forms and hired someone else to pour the concrete and *they* had to deal with the consequences of this!

"When it rains. We pour!" LOL

If this guys a pro than im a wizard at cement

Hey man I do comercial concrete and let told you this is nothing good thing you saw the problem and later I bet you you will check all the 1x4 before pour I did I mistakes like that before but now I learn from those mistakes great videos man I can’t wait to see you framing

very good video brother. i gave u a sub

Man it's just work screw ups happen haters gonna hate. I had a concrete contractor completely flip out forms backwards and it couldn't have happened to a more arrogant superior attitude dude we caught it before plumbing rough in but it was a opportunity for us to help him wasn't a big job 2200 sq.ft and after me and my crew spent the day helping to make it right I don't remember getting a thank you I was the framing contractor people can be idiots I like that you show what most people wouldn't real stuff thanks for sharing also I wouldn't have left it alone either

Here, were you using the Fab Form Fastfoot as a cost savings faster footing forming application, and not as part of an overall water management system?

AWESOME VIDEO 👍

No big deal, you just make it work. Bar clamps work well.

That's life..

I apologize for the hate you received over this Tim Buddy! I am a finish carpenter/contractor and we all make mistakes! I can’t even tell how many things I re did or had to cut up! We in this trade work hard that’s my only criticism is being lazy! And boy howdy u sure are not lazy in fact none of the ppl you work even come close! Good job fixing it which I am certain u did! Carry on!

If this hasn’t ever happened to someone then they haven’t been doing it long enough yet. It will happen for sure one day

After you fixed the first one, why wouldn't you have ran to get a nailer and some extra straps? Lol Then once some extra support was nailed in I probably would have drove a couple lags in each side and ran a ratchet strap across