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Sounds good. What is the project to be? Barn or some sort of stamped concrete deck(got one of those this last year and love it btw) But what's this for if you don't mind me asking?
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What are you using to dig?
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You could also check out this thread http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/owning-operating/219863-cvt-tranny-update-new-holland.html as I have some there.
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Good move!
Yes. Customer allowing me to bring concrete pumper on his driveway shortened the distance from truck to pad by 300'. Otherwise, I was on my way to buy concrete bucket. Looks like a very usefull attachment.
Probably the safest way to do it also. Sounds like its turning out to be quite the project!
I have a Furukawa loader it has a 1/2 yard bucket, when I was building my shop, getting a pumper up the mountain was expensive, $1,000 to $1,400 a time when we did the footings, I tacked in a couple of pieces of angled plate to give me a pour spout about 2 feet wide.
The truck could get-to about 1/2 the footings they poured from as far as they could I had the loader in the middle, he would fill the footings then fill the bucket and I did the part he could not get to when the job was done I ground out the plate. For the cost of a 4 ft square piece of steel cut and ground to fit it saved me a grand.
When we poured the walls I put the pieces back in and used it to redo a cracked section of sidewalk and make a ramp, to my back yard picnic table, barbecue area. Both of those areas were about a thousand ft from the pumper.
Worked for me!
The truck could get-to about 1/2 the footings they poured from as far as they could I had the loader in the middle, he would fill the footings then fill the bucket and I did the part he could not get to when the job was done I ground out the plate. For the cost of a 4 ft square piece of steel cut and ground to fit it saved me a grand.
When we poured the walls I put the pieces back in and used it to redo a cracked section of sidewalk and make a ramp, to my back yard picnic table, barbecue area. Both of those areas were about a thousand ft from the pumper.
Worked for me!
i'm a little late to the game on this one, since you've already got it planned out. my question was: do most of the small pad jobs you do allow you to use a ready-mix truck, or are you using a small mixer on site? if you are using a small mixer and were then going to move it by tractor, what about a 3ph pto mixer? i just brought home a slightly-past-abused 3 point hitch pto driven mixer. it needs a bunch of work, but they still make similar ones new if you are in business. with that you can back right up to the forms & place it where you want it. i don't know how bad the cost is compared to a bucket, but it would cut out a piece of equipment, and the transfer from mixer to tractor.
My tow behind concrete mixer has mostly been sitting. Not a lot of call for brickwork these days with this horrible economy. I thought of a 3pt mixer, but didn't want to mess with stone, water, portland, etc. It's just easier to pump it or shuttle it in on a concrete bucket.
The jobsite is like working on a 30* angle all day long. No place to sit a mixer. Mounted on a 3pt it might work (go up to level spot, mix batch, then drive up hill backwards and drop a load), but that would be kind of slow.
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So you're going to need a retaining wall too then, sounds like.
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My opinion is the concrete bucket is not the answer to a maidens prayer. We use them all the time, with cranes for high walls and remote piers ect. We also use the same buckets with extending boom fork trucks which is OK too, however slow and tedious. We (the company I work for) own 5 cranes and 4 or 5 fork lifts, we also own a couple of tractors but never used them to bucket concrete. We also use gorgia buggies all the time, if the ground is good the buggies are good but they are useless on rough ground. If the price was right and you have enough machine to handle it I would buy it versus renting every time. Rental yards are not particularly reliable and concrete is very time sensitive. The pump is the way to go 9 times out of 10 but there is always an exeption.
We once walked a 30 ton Rough Terrain crane over and embankment with the help of a Cat 345 got it set up and pumped as far as we could then swung the buckets as far as the crane could swing then used the Cat 345 for final placement for some foundations for storm drain structures. I think we placed something like 40 yards like that, talk about time consuming. Also used the 345 to hold a Cat 325 which final graded the embankment on the way out.
We once walked a 30 ton Rough Terrain crane over and embankment with the help of a Cat 345 got it set up and pumped as far as we could then swung the buckets as far as the crane could swing then used the Cat 345 for final placement for some foundations for storm drain structures. I think we placed something like 40 yards like that, talk about time consuming. Also used the 345 to hold a Cat 325 which final graded the embankment on the way out.
