gant
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Post by gant on Jul 16, 2008 6:05:31 GMT -5
does anyone else like street pours??I love them..we've got a 500 yard street pour and 250 yards worth of pavement on a new highway today.. we havent done over 500 yards in about 3 months.. im kind of excited..we went from 1500 yards a day for the past year and a half to 150-200... it will be nice to get out there and bust a little today..
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Post by LEAD DOG on Jul 16, 2008 18:24:06 GMT -5
YEAH GANT,
I VAGUELY REMEMBER PAVING WORK. OF COURSE THAT WAS WAAAAY BACK IN THE DAY....LIKE ....3 MONTHS AGO. ANY PAVING WE DO NOW IS CURB AND GUTTER STUFF  .
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Post by dwfnga on Jul 16, 2008 19:26:50 GMT -5
Gant I have to admit I love street pours anytime I can get out there and get in the way I love it. We are in the middle of one now not real big but good for a few yards everyday.
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gant
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Post by gant on Jul 17, 2008 5:09:54 GMT -5
the one we did yesterday was for a subdivision... then we did some exit ramps for a new highway... a couple weeks ago i did some highway repair.. it was nice blocking a whole lane of traffic...
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Post by LEAD DOG on Jul 17, 2008 20:49:08 GMT -5
the one we did yesterday was for a subdivision... then we did some exit ramps for a new highway... a couple weeks ago i did some highway repair.. it was nice blocking a whole lane of traffic...  |
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Post by gant on Jul 18, 2008 5:43:12 GMT -5
you kinda feel important you know.. "they closed off that entire lane of traffic and it is backed up for miles just so I can drive past them all on the shoulder and deliver concrete to it"
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Post by Mort on Jul 18, 2008 8:08:12 GMT -5
That is kinda nice, isn't it? I just wish people would realize that you can't haul azz through construction zones. Maybe we should all get some scooters and rip up and down the halls at their office building. I bet they'd change their tunes really quickly after that.
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Post by concreteman on Aug 9, 2008 9:01:25 GMT -5
I agree with Lead Dog...pissin off car drivers is great fun...
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Post by cfconcrete on Aug 9, 2008 9:21:03 GMT -5
I did curb & catch basins last week for the city.
One of the laziest weeks of my life....
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Aug 9, 2008 14:12:10 GMT -5
the one we did yesterday was for a subdivision... then we did some exit ramps for a new highway... a couple weeks ago i did some highway repair.. it was nice blocking a whole lane of traffic... you know they b!tch and complain that the streets/highways are jacked up and how they need to be fixed. Once your out there fixing them and lanes are closed traffic is backed up they even get more angry so I laught and <^> and ask "bad traffic huh?" keep on pouring fellas! |
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Post by gant on Aug 9, 2008 17:23:54 GMT -5
I got rented to one of our other plants for 4 loads yesterday for a street pour.. we have a central dispatch system and evertime this same plant gets over 200 yards they get sent 15 trucks to take care of it and they have 12 of their own already.. they sent 7 of our trucks to different plants yesterday to "haul one load and come back" is what they told our batchman so we could go..well the batchman had 6 jobs going on and only 4 trucks.. talk about pissed..
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Aug 9, 2008 17:48:06 GMT -5
I got rented to one of our other plants for 4 loads yesterday for a street pour.. we have a central dispatch system and evertime this same plant gets over 200 yards they get sent 15 trucks to take care of it and they have 12 of their own already.. they sent 7 of our trucks to different plants yesterday to "haul one load and come back" is what they told our batchman so we could go..well the batchman had 6 jobs going on and only 4 trucks.. talk about pissed.. Mort, believe me I know the feeling we always get sleeperd out to other plants mid pm and when we get there that plants drivers are washed out and its like wtf?! Why cant these dudes do their own work. |
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Aug 9, 2008 20:04:57 GMT -5
^^^ Our company does that a lot, Mudder. I see trucks from 16 and 18 at our plant, and they sit there waiting to load in front of us when we don't have enough to go around. Sucks.
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Aug 9, 2008 21:48:05 GMT -5
^^^ Our company does that a lot, Mudder. I see trucks from 16 and 18 at our plant, and they sit there waiting to load in front of us when we don't have enough to go around. Sucks. Its pretty bad oin thursday we had guys from plants 30, 4 and 28 at our plant im like ok. must be time for me to go home. sure enough hey wash it out. |
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Aug 10, 2008 1:11:51 GMT -5
We got guys from 30 down our way all the time.
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