Concrete placement bucket

[toolslinger]

When my folks built their place in PA, they put it on piers. Not something simple like sonotubes... Plywood formed, 4 sided, tapered piers. The low side units are probably 9' above grade, and the base is around 24" square. That's a lot of concrete.
It was all mixed, and poured by two guys in the early 70's. My father loaded and ran the mixer, and my uncle ran back and forth to the forms with a cut 55 gallon drum attached to the bucket of a JD300. No premix for them... They'd buy 100 bags of concrete every weekend, and had sand, and gravel delivered.
So, could you do it... Sure.
If there's another way to pump it, or truck it direct, I'd look real hard at that...

 

[nyone]

When my folks built their place in PA, they put it on piers. Not something simple like sonotubes... Plywood formed, 4 sided, tapered piers. The low side units are probably 9' above grade, and the base is around 24" square. That's a lot of concrete.
It was all mixed, and poured by two guys in the early 70's. My father loaded and ran the mixer, and my uncle ran back and forth to the forms with a cut 55 gallon drum attached to the bucket of a JD300. No premix for them... They'd buy 100 bags of concrete every weekend, and had sand, and gravel delivered.
So, could you do it... Sure.
If there's another way to pump it, or truck it direct, I'd look real hard at that...

I have also done the sand, stone and portland and mixed it my self also. In fact that's what holding half my house up. For the price I dont think il be saving any money vs buying bagged concrete.

 

[cwbyeng1300]

Did you get alot of separation? My driveway is prety smooth and can drive a car up it if you hit the hill good. No big ruts or bumps.

Probably had some, but we poured slow out of the bucket - that was about 15 years ago & the 120' tower is still standing on the ridge. The onsite engineer watched the pour & approved it, but we all agreed it wasn't the best solution to the problem - but it was the only way to get the concrete up there. We had to use two 4x4 trucks chained together just to pull a 10k load to the site. D8 dozer would spin out pulling a truck in...

 

[Smokeydog]

Concrete buckets can be rented or bought at Bobcat stores. Hydraulic controlled discharge if you have 3rd function. U-mix or ready mix. Don’t water down mix either way. Takes many knowledgeable pairs of hands. 5,000psi concrete.

 

[nyone]

I called the local batch plant and they get $200 a yard plus this fee and that fee I wouldnt be saving anything vs bagged concrete so bagged concrete it is.

 

[ruffdog]

The contractor neighbor has one of these for remote jobs.

https://www.bobcat.com/na/en/attachments/concrete-mixer

 

[caver]

or one of these BMX-250 Skid Steer Concrete Mixer Attachment
that Camarata kid has/had one he tried out on his YT channel. Probably pricey.

 

[4570Man]

or one of these BMX-250 Skid Steer Concrete Mixer Attachment
that Camarata kid has/had one he tried out on his YT channel. Probably pricey.

I have a smaller one. It works good.

 

[ljjhouser]

If you use bags, have a lot of help and rent a very large mixer (or two). Using 80# bags, looks like about 160 bags to mix for 3.5 yards. And watch your set time.

 

[diesel85]

If you use bags, have a lot of help and rent a very large mixer (or two). Using 80# bags, looks like about 160 bags to mix for 3.5 yards. And watch your set time.

I agree. If prohibitive or risky to get a concrete mixer in the site, a large mixer and extra hands is the way to do it.

Like I said, when I was doing my patio, the extra hands and that mixer made it go very quick and easy. Lot quicker than I thought it would've been. In fact, out of the whole project, doing those footers were the most daunting, but because I had the right people and a mixer, it was cake.

Up north of me, there are lots of places I know that were built using a mixer and bags of concrete because it was prohibitive to get a regular mixer truck in or a pumper. With enough help, the finished product looks exactly the same.