Concrete bucket

[Builder]

Just got a job with a "remote pour" of concrete (45 K gen set on a remote pad) I get a lot of these jobs and wondered if it isn't time to get a concrete bucket. Would think it would pay for itself in wheelbarrow labor in just a few jobs.
Anyone got one?
Comments?

 

[Martian]

Just got a job with a "remote pour" of concrete (45 K gen set on a remote pad) I get a lot of these jobs and wondered if it isn't time to get a concrete bucket. Would think it would pay for itself in wheelbarrow labor in just a few jobs.
Anyone got one?
Comments?

You'd really have to have a lot of concrete jobs. I'd see renting as a better option. Most all rentals will have them. Wouldn't be $100 per job and that would take a lot longer. Unless you really plan to do a lot more concrete.

 

[Builder]

You'd really have to have a lot of concrete jobs. I'd see renting as a better option. Most all rentals will have them. Wouldn't be $100 per job and that would take a lot longer. Unless you really plan to do a lot more concrete.

I've been doing concrete since the 80's and always wanted one. All the wheeling has really taken it's toll on me. With most of my employees being gone in the down economy, I couldn't think of a better time to buy one as a "labor saver". Found a solid looking used one for less than 1/2 price of new. Should pay for itself in a couple jobs.
Wish I had it for those **** barn footings I did last winter. Way too far from concrete truck.....

 

[Gizmo2]

Yeah I have one, used it to pour our Hot Tub pad.

Got a new one in 2008:thumbsup:

 

[Army grunt]

Rent one an bill it straight out to the job.Clean it an return it.IMO
Army Grunt

 

[jake98]

Small+Remote=Mixer, I've found.

 

[Glen Watkins]

Like Gizmo does! Why not just use a FEL bucket?

 

[RDrancher]

Sometimes you can't get square with what your pouring with a regular bucket and it makes a mess and more work. Also, the chute allows for better material control for pouring piers, foundations and stem walls.

I've also been looking at getting a concrete bucket. I was a concrete contractor in So Cal for a long time before moving to Texas. Concrete pump charges are relatively inexpensive and the service is available everywhere out there, but not here.

Plus, my hands don't fit around wheelbarrow handles so well anymore!

 

[slowzuki]

I just use my tractor buckets. The truck drivers like it too as they don't have to frig around. I know what you mean about pouring posts though, I think it would be easy to buy an old bucket and weld a spout on it.

 

[Martian]

If you can see the amount of jobs you would use it with the price of buying it to the price of a rental which you are not responsible for then I'd say go for it. I know I'd rent but depending on how many times you were going to use it. If you've been doing regular concrete contracts since the 80's I would say you are overdue.

 

[wrooster]

Rent a 1 cubic yard gas powered wheelbarrow. They are $80/day.

Wrooster

 

[Aquaman]

Cut the top off a 50gl barrel (plastic) and bolt it in your bucket. Cheap (even disposable) alternative. Round top lets you direct the pour way better than flat loader bucket. Works great.

 

[Builder]

Rent a 1 cubic yard gas powered wheelbarrow. They are $80/day.

Wrooster

A georgia buggy won't make it to the pad pour. Too steep. My M-7040 is gonna have a tough time getting to it.

 

[Builder]

If you can see the amount of jobs you would use it with the price of buying it to the price of a rental which you are not responsible for then I'd say go for it. I know I'd rent but depending on how many times you were going to use it. If you've been doing regular concrete contracts since the 80's I would say you are overdue.

Yup, I've kinda been putting off what I sould do today until tomorrow-just like your signature says. :laughing:

I never wanted to buy one new. Just found this used one and it kind of makes it do-able for me.

 

[Martian]

Yup, I've kinda been putting off what I sould do today until tomorrow-just like your signature says. :laughing:

I never wanted to buy one new. Just found this used one and it kind of makes it do-able for me.

Haha. Seems that's the way life always works!

I'm not positive how much you do cement work but from the sounds of it if you could get a good deal on concrete bucket it would seem like a no brainer to me. :thumbsup:

 

[gabby]

Just got a job with a "remote pour" of concrete (45 K gen set on a remote pad) I get a lot of these jobs and wondered if it isn't time to get a concrete bucket. Would think it would pay for itself in wheelbarrow labor in just a few jobs.
Anyone got one?
Comments?

What is it? How about a picture or a link?

 

[bironacad]

Is this what you had in mind?
Thielen Machine and Welding - Skid Loader Attachments

 

[Builder]

Is this what you had in mind?
Thielen Machine and Welding - Skid Loader Attachments

That one is much nicer. Has a long snout for precice placement. The one I'm looking at has a hatch that opens in the front that allows concrete to come out.

 

[jake98]

Concrete is so much easier to move before you put the water in it.

 

[Martian]

Concrete is so much easier to move before you put the water in it.

Don't think he's using bags or we wouldn't be talking about a concrete bucket but pallet forks...