wade
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"it gets hard......really hard"
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Post by wade on Oct 22, 2008 20:35:03 GMT -5
Since I started 8 months ago, I am floored by the amount of over orderded concrete we just dump out. Just this week I bet I have dumped close to 15 yards. We have landscaping blocks that we pour with leftover, but that is only three yards or so, the rest we spread out and the County comes along and picks it up for rip rap on the river. We just give it to them to get rid of it. We dont have a recycler but what we make in landscaping blocks, makes up for it.
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Oct 23, 2008 0:28:36 GMT -5
Since I started 8 months ago, I am floored by the amount of over orderded concrete we just dump out. Just this week I bet I have dumped close to 15 yards. We have landscaping blocks that we pour with leftover, but that is only three yards or so, the rest we spread out and the County comes along and picks it up for rip rap on the river. We just give it to them to get rid of it. We dont have a recycler but what we make in landscaping blocks, makes up for it. I dont think even think about it anymore. With us we spin it off, it gets crushed to base and gets sold. Our company makes money off it. |
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Post by BillyCement on Oct 23, 2008 6:54:50 GMT -5
We do the landscaping blocks (1 yd. each), too. But, we have about 20 of them. During the busy months they are filled sometimes twice a day. We also pour flat slabs for use as bases for catch basins. I think we have three of them. They take about a yard, too. We still put a lot of leftovers through the recycler, though. Maybe another 4 or 5 yards, but that's just a guess. Probably more. A lot of customers work for "time and materials" so they will purposely order a lot more than what was really needed. Then you get the homeowner who adds another 2 yards just so he doesn't "run short". I understand adding another half a yard but some people are just out of their minds.
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gant
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Post by gant on Oct 23, 2008 8:08:44 GMT -5
last summer when we were running hot and heavy to Holcim Cement we would throw away about 40 yards a day.. we poured for about 15 different contractors down on that job at one time..sometimes we'd throw alot more than that away.. we had a contractor down there that would over order by 20 or 30 yards annd take it to his house...we have a place about a mile from the plant that we've been dumping at for about 45 years.. its a towing company and they are making their lot bigger, we just back over the hill and let it go.. we also make coffin blocks every once in awhile.. but they are a pain in the ass
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Post by BillyCement on Oct 23, 2008 9:28:26 GMT -5
Yeah, we did the coffin boxes many years ago. We didn't make them ourselves. We had a customer who did. He always ordered it with pea gravel. It was a pain, but he was a good tipper so no one minded too much.
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Post by cfconcrete on Oct 23, 2008 21:44:05 GMT -5
We have a whole yardfull of landscaping blocks, concrete barrier, sewer boxes & sump pits. I spin off I bet over 10 yards a week if it's busy....
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Oct 24, 2008 15:56:02 GMT -5
we waste so much that the crusher crew has to come out every 60 days and stay 2-3 weeks.
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Oct 24, 2008 23:47:18 GMT -5
We're lucky. We have Ewles Recycling right in our yard. Everything we spin off gets hauled over there every day. And we winrow A LOT.
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Post by Mort on Oct 25, 2008 12:31:21 GMT -5
We also have an aggregate department and a mine, so we windrow the stuff, then PAY to have it crushed, and then the agg dept. sells it. Sounds like a mafia thing, huh?
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Post by BillyCement on Oct 25, 2008 18:37:20 GMT -5
Winrow? 
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Oct 26, 2008 12:31:45 GMT -5
why be floored about it? Not your mud you didnt pay for it. Thats the way I look at it. Perfect example of waste for you. 2 years ago we had a 1,400 of 4000 psi pump mix. 400 yards of that was sent back. now thats waste. I dont get mad not my dime being wasted. It creates work for us all. I see it in a good way. Except when they load on top of it ;D ;D ;D
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Post by lounge on Nov 2, 2008 10:37:14 GMT -5
the company i work for also has a precast plant across town so theoretically we should be able to dump all our left overs there in mafia blocks feed bunks septic tanks etc. but the precast guy is never ready, if we only have a few yards well put about 800 gallons in it and dump it into our wash out pit every few months you have to dig it out with the loader. and the stuff that comes out we haul to the landfill for fill or give it to people who need it. if its more u have to truck it to one of our old pits and dump in in a hole. how many of you guy have a reclaimer unit. do the work good i have only seen pictures of them in magazines
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Post by BillyCement on Nov 2, 2008 11:50:38 GMT -5
We have a reclaimer. It works okay. It isn't meant to handle a lot of left-overs, so we have the pre-formed blocks, etc.
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Post by Mort on Nov 2, 2008 14:24:05 GMT -5
We're in the process of putting one in. They say it'll handle a full load all at once, but we'll see.
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Post by concreteman28 on Nov 8, 2008 21:25:30 GMT -5
We have a reclaimer and it works fairly well. But our water pits fill up with cement slurry pretty fast.
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Post by LEAD DOG on Nov 9, 2008 22:19:45 GMT -5
I GOT A RUNAWAY TO MY BARN THAT TOOK APPROX 270 YARDS OF LEFT OVER. SURPRISINGLY HOLDING UP PRETTY GOOD TOO! 
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