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Post by mauserman on Dec 26, 2008 19:00:48 GMT -5
My best:
"Make the slump an eight but a dry eight"
"Can you spread it about two inches thick?"
(This was in response to a load of three inch river rock I brought a guy in the dump truck).
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Post by LEAD DOG on Dec 26, 2008 22:55:44 GMT -5
C.O.D. CUSTOMER "Damn! This stuff didn't seem so heavy when I ordered it!?! 
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Post by Magoo on Dec 27, 2008 1:28:38 GMT -5
C.O.D customer "Can ya give me some advice? How do ya get it flat and where do ya start"
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Post by BillyCement on Dec 27, 2008 9:48:04 GMT -5
I was on a wheelbarrow job and I asked the customer for a shovel to scrape the chute. He said "Just make it go back up.". He was serious, too. When I said I couldn't do that he asked me "Are you new at this?". I said that as a matter of fact, yes I was new at this but I still had no power over gravity. But, my favorite was when I delivered 7 yards to some homeowners who were extending the sidewalk around their pool. Only the wife spoke English. After a few wheelbarrows she told me that her husband said that this was the wrong concrete. "The old concrete is smooth, this concrete isn't smooth.". Oh, boy....here we go.
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Post by LEAD DOG on Dec 27, 2008 21:30:24 GMT -5
AND THEN THERE'S THE EVER POPULAR "GOT CONCRETE HUH?"
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Post by BillyCement on Dec 28, 2008 17:25:04 GMT -5
AND THEN THERE'S THE EVER POPULAR "GOT CONCRETE HUH?" |
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Dec 28, 2008 23:58:32 GMT -5
COD from last month job started at 1pm order was put in at 1200 ordered by customer at 1200. I was loaded at 1345 arrived at 1500. Customer fuming mad angry very belligerent. Tells me I'm late and that I took too long. So I look at him and say " if you want I'll leave and come back and then you can tell me if I took long the 1st time or the second time" He shut his mouth went back to the backyard. charged his a$$ standby too. CMT gets his revenge!
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Post by Yard Bird on Dec 29, 2008 11:58:37 GMT -5
to many to list, but this one takes the cake, I went to a COD on a sat before unloading at 85 degrees he wanted me to put 5 gallons of Polmolive dish soap in 5 yards for a driveway. I cleared it through QC and they said no warranty if he did that. 5 yards became 8 and the air content must have been 50 percent, you could smell this as it came down the chute a mile away. He said thats the way they do it out east, who am I to argue. Needless to say once the bull float hit it it dropped 2 inches backed up 3 times to pour over the same area. he tore it out within 2 weeks, I guess back east semantics just don't always work.  , I think he's tree trimming now, who knows.  |
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Post by BillyCement on Dec 29, 2008 13:56:01 GMT -5
Dish soap in concrete? Never heard of it in this part of the East. 
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Dec 29, 2008 15:05:30 GMT -5
Pulled up to a customer's house. He ordered 8 yards to fill in a walkway around the front of his house. When I got outta the truck I noticed that there was no crew. This old man walked up to me and said, "So, how do we do this?" I asked him if the finishers would be there soon, and he said, "What? You guys don't do all that yourselves?".
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Post by mauserman on Dec 29, 2008 20:06:46 GMT -5
never hear the dish soap bit but a while back one of our best finishers poured some sidewalk for a dude from California. After he had bull floated the stuff to perfection he sighed, went to his truck and came back with a bag of rock salt. He started throwing hand fulls of the stuff on the surface and I about lost my mind!
"Jimmy! What the hell are ya doing!?!". He shook his head and said, "Home-owner says this is all the rage in California. The salt melts and leaves little holes in the top....says it makes it look vintage....".
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Post by concretejoe on Dec 30, 2008 19:06:35 GMT -5
"Jimmy! What the hell are ya doing!?!". He shook his head and said, "Home-owner says this is all the rage in California. The salt melts and leaves little holes in the top....says it makes it look vintage....". I've heard of this. I think it comes out ugly, but what the customer wants the customer gets. |
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Post by gant on Dec 30, 2008 19:56:38 GMT -5
I've seen them using laundry powder in the load.. it came out really nice..
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Post by cfconcrete on Jan 2, 2009 16:48:21 GMT -5
Dish soap in concrete? Never heard of it in this part of the East. No, that's not the way we do it "back east" Here in the east, most customers & contractors are waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy to dumb to think of that... |
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Post by cfconcrete on Jan 2, 2009 16:50:58 GMT -5
never hear the dish soap bit but a while back one of our best finishers poured some sidewalk for a dude from California. After he had bull floated the stuff to perfection he sighed, went to his truck and came back with a bag of rock salt. He started throwing hand fulls of the stuff on the surface and I about lost my mind! "Jimmy! What the hell are ya doing!?!". He shook his head and said, "Home-owner says this is all the rage in California. The salt melts and leaves little holes in the top....says it makes it look vintage....". Yes! All the pock marks & potholes are very vintage looking on the roads here after a long winter! |
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Post by sgt1970442 on Jan 3, 2009 7:51:21 GMT -5
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Post by mauserman on Jan 9, 2009 17:22:46 GMT -5
to many to list, but this one takes the cake, I went to a COD on a sat before unloading at 85 degrees he wanted me to put 5 gallons of Polmolive dish soap in 5 yards for a driveway. I cleared it through QC and they said no warranty if he did that. 5 yards became 8 and the air content must have been 50 percent, you could smell this as it came down the chute a mile away. He said thats the way they do it out east, who am I to argue. Needless to say once the bull float hit it it dropped 2 inches backed up 3 times to pour over the same area. he tore it out within 2 weeks, I guess back east semantics just don't always work. , I think he's tree trimming now, who knows. Yard, I told my dispatcher your story and he smiled. He said in small doses it can raise air and he had heard of it before. I had never heard of it before - live and learn ! |
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Post by oldsmith on Jan 9, 2009 18:14:27 GMT -5
We've done that before but not that much. One time we ran out of air and had to do it. Had to check the air in ever load a couple times tell we got it in range. We have these little things that look like a lime that we throw in flow fill. I think it is more or less soap. What it does is doubles the product so 5yds of fill turns into 10yrds or more I think. Better watch out when you throw it in though, within a couple sec. the stuff just starts overflowing your drum so you have to be on site ready to pour when you put it in.
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Post by concretejoe on Jan 10, 2009 2:06:24 GMT -5
Yeah, air entrainment is basically soap.
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Post by cfconcrete on Jan 12, 2009 20:05:59 GMT -5
I've gotten asked more than once if I can "shovel some back in your truck, we dumped more than we need".
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Post by Mort on Jan 13, 2009 13:12:15 GMT -5
Hehe, yeah, I've gotten that one too. Just tell them yeah, as long as they have a lawn chair for you to sit in while you watch them do it.
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Post by BillyCement on Jan 13, 2009 14:47:51 GMT -5
Hehe, yeah, I've gotten that one too. Just tell them yeah, as long as they have a lawn chair for you to sit in while you watch them do it.
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Jan 14, 2009 17:21:09 GMT -5
I like to put the hopper up and have one of the guys stand on the chute and throw the mud in through the back of the drum. Good times. ;D
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Post by mauserman on Jan 23, 2009 20:03:47 GMT -5
I used to pour pretty regular for a guy who had owned a ready-mix company in the 1970's. One day I pulled up on his job site, started hanging my chutes and had his son ask me, "What kinda slump ya bring me?".
I looked at the gauge and said," Well, the slump gauge is calling it a '5'." Kid looked at me kind of confused and said, "Slump gauge? What the hell is that?".
I showed him the gauge and explained the concept to him. He nodded in a way that pretty much convinced me he was clue-less.
After the pour I was up top washing my fins down when the kid brought his dad over and, in a low voice, told him all about the slump gauge.
It was like watching a couple of eight year old boys with their first Playboy magazine - they weren't sure what they were looking at and wanted to know more about it but were just too ashamed to ask.
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Post by BillyCement on Jan 24, 2009 7:24:15 GMT -5
I used to pour pretty regular for a guy who had owned a ready-mix company in the 1970's. One day I pulled up on his job site, started hanging my chutes and had his son ask me, "What kinda slump ya bring me?". I looked at the gauge and said," Well, the slump gauge is calling it a '5'." Kid looked at me kind of confused and said, "Slump gauge? What the hell is that?". I showed him the gauge and explained the concept to him. He nodded in a way that pretty much convinced me he was clue-less. After the pour I was up top washing my fins down when the kid brought his dad over and, in a low voice, told him all about the slump gauge. It was like watching a couple of eight year old boys with their first Playboy magazine - they weren't sure what they were looking at and wanted to know more about it but were just too ashamed to ask.
I've been driving mixers since the 70's and until I found this website I'd never heard of a slump meter either. I don't think anyone in NJ has one. |
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Post by gant on Jan 24, 2009 9:48:33 GMT -5
wow.. I'm suprised they are a very useful "guide" but nothing is better than looking at your load
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Post by Mort on Jan 25, 2009 1:50:07 GMT -5
Some of our trucks have them in the cab, and back by the rear controls. I just use them in the OshKoshs, when I can't really see the load all that well.
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Post by gant on Jan 25, 2009 8:46:05 GMT -5
Mine has one in the cab and one on the pedistal.. My old truck had one behind the cab so to read it I'd have to turn my head and look out the back window while I was driving lol.. I guess the one in the cab is safer..
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, I think he's tree trimming now, who knows. 
