The name on the hammer was ‘Brute’ and it was that
I’d hoped that I could just leave the shed step pad where it was and have them pour the new floor over the top. But after careful measuring it was going too close to the edge of the building and possible not deep enough. So it had to go.
The pad was 4×8′ and four inches thick with steel mesh. I bounced a sledge hammer off of it a couple of times and clearly it would need more than that to break it up.
It had been indeed, 25 years since I operated a jackhammer. In one of my previous professional lives I poured and finished concrete. With that also came concrete removal so I had an idea on what it would take.
I rented an electric hammer and proceeded to pound away. Then I was reminded why concrete busting is for the younger crews. If I’d had a helper, they could have kept the loose chunks clear but instead I had to stop and clear and area then pick the 90 lb. hammer back up and continue.
But no matter, I’d use the broken pieces for backfill in the new wall.