Hauling mixed concrete?

[GLyford]

Only Help I got was better half helped screed it off as I went.

And just that is an amazing amount of help. Running the mixer and carting the cement is a full time job for 1 person, so the screeding interrupts the flow. If that is being taken care of a lot of the worry is gone and you can just get your "groove" on and keep on mixing.

Was talking to a concrete guy just yesterday, and he was saying he hires a new screed guy every 4 years...burns them out, because screeding is ALWAYS done at "foot" level, bent over. If your guys working the concrete rakes are good, the screed guy doesn't have to move a lot of weight. But if they are removing piles and filling in low spots with the screed, then going back over again to relevel you'll just flat wear them out.

 

[ovrszd]

And just that is an amazing amount of help. Running the mixer and carting the cement is a full time job for 1 person, so the screeding interrupts the flow. If that is being taken care of a lot of the worry is gone and you can just get your "groove" on and keep on mixing.

Was talking to a concrete guy just yesterday, and he was saying he hires a new screed guy every 4 years...burns them out, because screeding is ALWAYS done at "foot" level, bent over. If your guys working the concrete rakes are good, the screed guy doesn't have to move a lot of weight. But if they are removing piles and filling in low spots with the screed, then going back over again to relevel you'll just flat wear them out.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for concrete guys. Young man's game for sure!!!!

 

[Creamer]

I have a tremendous amount of respect for concrete guys. Young man's game for sure!!!!

Amen to that! You are always working bent over with heavy stuff.

 

[bigtiller]

Amen to that! You are always working bent over with heavy stuff.

Yep, and everything is way down there on the ground My bendover doesn't work like it used to.

 

[Egon]

Pouring Concrete, always fun, expesially on a nice hot day.

With an experienced crew the labour factor goes way down. The fellow on the chute just lays down the right amounts so a couple fellows on floats can get a nice even surface. Screening is a minimum with only small amounts of concrete on the screed at one time. In fact there will be times when it looks like all the fellows are standing around and watching.

No fellows out shovelling in front of the screed.

 

[Paddy]

I have mixed many small batches of concrete. When we were building I had piles of Crushed stone, pea gravel and sand. Simple as a ratio of 123, 1 portland, 2 pea gravel, 3 crushed stone.

I mix in my front end loader, use 5 gal buckets for measuring. You'd think mixing a big batch with a hoe and shovel would be bad, it's not if you don't guess on the water. The closer you get the water volume, the easier the mixing.

In Mexico they do this in the street. A dump truck brings in the crushed stone and dumps it on the street. Then it is flatened and a layer of smaller stone is spread on top. Finally the portland goes on top. Huge heap now! Then 4 or 5 guys work it from the sides only adding water where they are mixing. Once they have two buckets mixed, they carry it to the slab.

 

[ovrszd]

I have mixed many small batches of concrete. When we were building I had piles of Crushed stone, pea gravel and sand. Simple as a ratio of 123, 1 portland, 2 pea gravel, 3 crushed stone.

I mix in my front end loader, use 5 gal buckets for measuring. You'd think mixing a big batch with a hoe and shovel would be bad, it's not if you don't guess on the water. The closer you get the water volume, the easier the mixing.

In Mexico they do this in the street. A dump truck brings in the crushed stone and dumps it on the street. Then it is flatened and a layer of smaller stone is spread on top. Finally the portland goes on top. Huge heap now! Then 4 or 5 guys work it from the sides only adding water where they are mixing. Once they have two buckets mixed, they carry it to the slab.

In Korea if they are working on a multi-story building they build scaffolding up the side of the building and hand bucket the concrete to the top passing it from one to the next worker. I've got a pic somewhere in my archives, I'll see if I can find it.

 

[Oldoak]

In Korea if they are working on a multi-story building they build scaffolding up the side of the building and hand bucket the concrete to the top passing it from one to the next worker. I've got a pic somewhere in my archives, I'll see if I can find it.

Are you suggesting the O.P. haul it home one bucket at a time?

 

[ovrszd]

Are you suggesting the O.P. haul it home one bucket at a time?

Yes....

 

[dfkrug]

This sounds like a great time to buy a 3pt cement mixer. Drive over to the bags,
toss a few in and some water then let it mix while you drive over to the pour site. Certainly not the cheapest
method but, being a tractor site, it's the most tractory.

Amen! I was wondering if someone would bring that up.

I have paid for mine many times over, and I can still do smallish pours despite my creeping decrepitude.

The last time I used it, I elected to buy 100 bags or so of the 5000psi pea-gravel concrete at the big
box store. I exploited their young and energetic staff to load my PU. I still had to unload it, however, so
I got the 60# old guy bags. In the past I have always used my own piles of gravel, sand, and half-sacks
of Portland. I find that the latter method is actually easier, as shoveling the aggregates into the drum
is easier than loading the bags.

Over the years, I have used every method I have heard of, except dumping piles in the street and
manually mixing it.