Human Power:Breakfast Calories move 10 tons

At 9:45 this morning, a truck arrived with 10 tons of crushed limestone to dress up the driveway. "Dave the excavator", dumped 1/3 of the load at the far end of the driveway and the last 2/3s of the load at the driveway's entrance. By 2:30PM, the spreading and leveling were done ...by human power!

...2/3's of the load
...distributed stones
...stones spread and leveled

Here is a little mathematical break down.

The WORK ... to spread and level 10 tons of crushed stone with a shovel, wheel barrow, landscape rake, muscular energy, while leaving the central grass strip uncovered.

• 2000 lbs/ton x 10 tons = 20,000 lbs divided by 38 wheel barrows loaded by hand = 526 lbs/wheel barrow load.
• 526lbs/wheel barrow load divided by 45 shovel fulls of stone/wheel barrow load = 12 lbs of crushed stones/shovel full or over 1700 shovel fulls to get the stone loaded.
• Each wheel barrow had to be pushed and dumped along the drive way.
• Finally the stones had to be raked and leveled.

The ENERGY to do the WORK ...600 Calories or about 33 Calories utilized for each pound of crushed stone.

• A bowl of 2/3 cup of oatmeal with milk, yogurt, brown sugar, with homegrown blackwalnuts & rasberries ...200 Calories


• Two slices of homemade whole grain bread with peanut butter and home picked & preserved blackcap jam ...400 Calories
  

  1/3 of the load

...before

The stones are spread

"Chendrashaker" expects to sleep well tonight!