<font color="blue"> "I've told them we'll need some help mixing and pouring fifty mixer loads to do the floor tomorrow....I figure it'll take somwhere between sixty and seventy." </font>
Harve, for some time now, I've been wondering about the use of a small cement mixer like yours. 1/3 of a yard at a time doesn't seem like much. Sixty loads would be 20 yards.
First question, how long does it take to load the mixer, mix it and empty it? I assume that while your young lads are loading and mixing another load, you have time to dump the previous load and come back fo rthe next, so no time is wasted, and that your other crew members are spreading and screeding the load you just dumped, so the controlling factor is the loading and mixing time. If I figure 10 minutes per load continuous with no down time, that's still 10 hours straight of hard manual labor for at least 5 guys.
Second question: At what point does it pay to have a couple of ready mix trucks and a pumper if you can't get the ready mix trucks to the site?
Third question: How much sand, gravel and cement have you had delivered there?
Last question (just occurred to me): Will you have more than one mixer set up for this big pour? I can't imagine 10 to 12 hours of steady loading, mixing, dumping and spreading, and I can't imagine the pace that would do it faster than 10 minutes per load!
