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Post by lkconcrete on Jan 11, 2008 20:00:49 GMT -5
Anybody have odd things come out the chute every now and then??
Just recently i was looking at one of out freshly poured sand traps and noticed a rubbery looking thing in the side of the wall. started pulling on it with my hand and it was black and really stretchy, imediately i though it was one of the workers rubber gloves and all of a sudden wack! the rubber black thing came out of the concrete and hit me in the face,, then i almost yacked cause it was a big bull frog!! lol Then another time had a dead pigeon come out the chute, a guy grabbed it, it was all grey, he didn't know what it was...then he was quite shocked when he spiked it on the ground and it's guts flew out....
why do things have to die in the agg piles!!
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Post by Ideal Driver on Jan 11, 2008 20:59:53 GMT -5
I was pouring grout in a small pump. It had lots of balls in it so there was a guy there breaking up the balls. Something came down the shut and landed on the grates. The guy dug it out and threw it on the ground. I asked what the hell that was, he said it was a mop head. Now I'm thinking there ain't no way a freaking mop head got in there. I went over picked it up I was studieing it and bent it in half then I seen blood.
It was a crow. Every bone in its body was broken. Nuttin but a big pile of mush.
A guy at the plant told me he's had several birds in loads. He says most the time the bird comes out with no feathers left. He didn't seem to shocked but since I'm a newbie I was pretty amazed!
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Post by gant on Jan 12, 2008 8:45:43 GMT -5
I had a soda bottle come out of mine lol.. one of our guys was down in the tunnel shoveling and threw his bottle on the belt and it went into my load lol
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Post by mixedupdiesel on Jan 12, 2008 14:47:55 GMT -5
I had a big piece of wood come out once, about 1ft long, lol 2x4ish a soda bottle, a pair of safety glasses into a pump.
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Post by stetterman on Jan 13, 2008 13:25:32 GMT -5
Some 7 or 8 years ago we had a driver who, whilst pouring his first load of the day, saw first a leg and then the rest of a corpse come out of his truck. It was at a plant up north, think around Amsterdam. Turns out it was a tramp with psychological problems who clambered in thru the hopper. If there's anything funny about this it has to be that the deceased first sat in the canteen and other drivers thought he was just some guy from the job agency. Can't have been a pleasant way to go.
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Post by BillyCement on Jan 13, 2008 15:31:59 GMT -5
Some 7 or 8 years ago we had a driver who, whilst pouring his first load of the day, saw first a leg and then the rest of a corpse come out of his truck. It was at a plant up north, think around Amsterdam. Turns out it was a tramp with psychological problems who clambered in thru the hopper. If there's anything funny about this it has to be that the deceased first sat in the canteen and other drivers thought he was just some guy from the job agency. Can't have been a pleasant way to go.  |
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Post by Ideal Driver on Jan 13, 2008 16:03:11 GMT -5
I gotta say I never expected anyone to say a body! I couldn't even imagine the shock value on that. "stiff" load LOL Thats not right man not right at all.  Can't help but laugh though. |
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Post by oldsmith on Jan 14, 2008 9:11:23 GMT -5
The company that use to haul our gravel would haul scrap steel then get a load for us so we would find all sorts of steel in the loads. But sometimes I find trash and I have had a cat before then the usual critter like mice, chipmunks, birds.
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Post by Matt on Jan 14, 2008 10:21:27 GMT -5
I have seen and heard of many things coming out of a load, but the corpse takes the cake! One of the most damaging incidents I know of happened years back when the company I was working for contracted a separate trucking company to haul in some of our aggregate one day. Earlier in the day the hired haulers were carrying soybeans from the recent harvest. They failed to clean their boxes out before getting loaded with our aggregate. We had drive over bins, so nobody noticed the tainted load when the guys dumped the aggregate at our plant. Nobody noticed the soybeans during the delivery and placement of the mud either. They would have just looked like a stone at that point. A couple days later the homeowner called because the top of his driveway was popping. After closer inspection, you could see that all the popping was caused by soybeans that had floated to the surface.  |
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Post by Cover Driver on Jan 17, 2008 19:07:26 GMT -5
I know a driver that had a dead fox come out of his load, nothing that exciting.
But I remember once in a hanson depot I have a perfect load I didn't need to slump. ;D
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Post by marc on Jan 20, 2008 8:23:38 GMT -5
Some 7 or 8 years ago we had a driver who, whilst pouring his first load of the day, saw first a leg and then the rest of a corpse come out of his truck. It was at a plant up north, think around Amsterdam. Turns out it was a tramp with psychological problems who clambered in thru the hopper. If there's anything funny about this it has to be that the deceased first sat in the canteen and other drivers thought he was just some guy from the job agency. Can't have been a pleasant way to go. Pumpys always complain about boney loads Weirdest thing ive had was a s |
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Post by hicups on Jan 25, 2008 14:31:53 GMT -5
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww but LMAO was the load stiff?  ? OMG this subject was too gross! |
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Post by blacksheep99 on Feb 28, 2008 22:01:29 GMT -5
WE HAD A LOADER OPERATOR A WHILE BACK THAT USE TO RAISE AND FIGHT ROOSTERS  . THE GUY WOULD ALWAYS THROW HIS LOSERS IN THE SAND HOPPER. NEEDLESS TO SAY THESE ROOSTERS WOULD END UP IN THE DELIVERED CONCRETE. THIS ONE PARTICULAR MONDAY WE HAD A 500yd.+ SLAB TO POUR. FIRST LOAD ON THE JOB AT 0730HRS. BY 1130HRS. THE CLEAN UP LOAD WAS ON THE GROUND AND LAYING NEXT TO THE CONTRACTORS WASHED UP BUGGYS WERE 15 COMPLETELY PLUCKED CLEAN DEAD AS HELL ROOSTERS ! THE CONTRACTOR HAD ONE OF OUR SALESMEN THERE TO EXPLAIN THE SITUATION . ALL THE SALEMAN COULD DO WAS BUY THE WORKERS BUCKETS OF FRIED CHICKEN AND POP  . THE SALESMAN ALSO TOLD THE CONTRACTOR THAT THERE WAS NO CHARGE FOR THE EXTRA FIBER MESH FROM THE ROOSTERS ;D!....IF I'M LYING I'M DYING! A TRUE STORY!  |
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Post by bj3976 on Mar 8, 2008 12:04:18 GMT -5
A few years back in the fall we had a late night. Prior to my last load I was in a new development washing down and it was pitch black. I was using my Maglite flash light so I could see what I was doing. Holding the flashlight between my neck and shoulder, yup it fell in. I just watched the light disapear into my left overs. angry over loosing my $30 dollar light I quickly shot back to find there was a load left, I loaded on top of the left overs and went on my way. As we started to pour I could here it coming making noise with every turn. Then it comes down and the thing is still on the crew didn't notice but all of a sudden there was a blast of light. It startled one of the crew guys so much he fell back into the crete. I said there it is. Washed it off still worked. (broken swith , & polished) I still use it today. Over an hour in the truck!  |
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Post by mixedupdiesel on Mar 16, 2008 21:31:27 GMT -5
This past Tuesday, I had a 40 or so ft long piece of conveyor belt in my load. Good thing we caught it at the plant as it was a pump job.
The QC guy got some off of me after I was loaded, and as I turned the drum back into charge I saw something up there, and so I stopped the drum and backed it up again, and sure enough just before the crete started coming, something was there. So I grabbed it and got a couple feet out, and didn't know what in the frick it was. Kept pulling and got about 6ft, then started the drum up again, and just kept pulling, and walking. By the time i got about 30ft away, the QC guy and I were laughing our rears off at this, and it appeared I was walking the truck, lol.
I took the piece home with me, souvenir, lololol
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Post by jeffintx on Mar 19, 2008 13:16:43 GMT -5
Water moccasin. Came out and started swimming across the slab. Mexicans ran like hell!
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Post by readymixer77 on Mar 19, 2008 17:58:23 GMT -5
The weirdest thing was one morning start up to pre trip my truck we had a good rain the night before so I put the drum in discharge and heard a kinda knockin around so I went to the back to see what it was well along with the rain water out came a raccoon scared the hell out of me
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Post by LEAD DOG on Mar 24, 2008 17:37:50 GMT -5
WE HAD A LOADER OPERATOR A WHILE BACK THAT USE TO RAISE AND FIGHT ROOSTERS . THE GUY WOULD ALWAYS THROW HIS LOSERS IN THE SAND HOPPER. NEEDLESS TO SAY THESE ROOSTERS WOULD END UP IN THE DELIVERED CONCRETE.
THIS ONE PARTICULAR MONDAY WE HAD A 500yd.+ SLAB TO POUR. FIRST LOAD ON THE JOB AT 0730HRS. BY 1130HRS. THE CLEAN UP LOAD WAS ON THE GROUND AND LAYING NEXT TO THE CONTRACTORS WASHED UP BUGGYS WERE 15 COMPLETELY PLUCKED CLEAN DEAD AS HELL ROOSTERS ! THE CONTRACTOR HAD ONE OF OUR SALESMEN THERE TO EXPLAIN THE SITUATION . ALL THE SALEMAN COULD DO WAS BUY THE WORKERS BUCKETS OF FRIED CHICKEN AND POP . THE SALESMAN ALSO TOLD THE CONTRACTOR THAT THERE WAS NO CHARGE FOR THE EXTRA FIBER MESH FROM THE ROOSTERS !....IF I'M LYING I'M DYING! A TRUE STORY!
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Post by wetload on Mar 31, 2008 19:13:00 GMT -5
i had a chicken and a squirrl in my loads before!
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Post by concretejoe on Apr 7, 2008 22:13:39 GMT -5
Half of a rabbit. The other half was still back in the stockpile. I've had a bird fly into the drum on the way to a job. Other than pieces of the plant that's about it.
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Post by dolese203653 on Apr 13, 2008 19:19:16 GMT -5
One of our drivers had a box turtle approx. 8 inches accross come out of the drum and still be alive. That means he was dredged out at the sand plant, loaded on a sand train for our materials yard, unloaded onto the pile of concrete sand, then loaded onto conveyor belts at our central mix plant. The turlle was in our backstock pile till brought up into our holding silos. Then into the central mix drum,into a mixer and delivered to the job site. We stopped pumping thinking it was a concrete "fin". Found out it was a turtle, and took him back to the plant.We released at our onsight pond and he/she is still there..
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Post by raymond on Apr 21, 2008 20:07:20 GMT -5
I've had all kinds of goofy things land on my grates over the years... Anchor and chain, boot, oar, rope, conveyer belt pieces, numerous furry animals, tire...(but that got hung up right out of the barrel), shovel, broom....but never-ever-anything human...yuk!
A QC guy was leaning over my hopper to look up the chute to see how wet the load was and his phone fell out of his pocket and into my hopper. I was pumping and didn't see it happen...Anyhoo, he ran over to where I was, told me what happened and asked that we look for his phone so he could at least take it back for replacement...(company phone) That little phone popped out on the slab after about 12 strokes getting pushed through a 52m boom. He hosed it off and the little sucker worked!! It was one of those standard issue NexTel HD phones. The only thing that didn't work right was the speaker phone...but hey, there's no reason the whole jobsite needs to hear a phone call anyway, right?
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Jul 25, 2008 21:43:16 GMT -5
I was pouring out into a boom pump, and the little lady pouring out next to me had what I thought was the boot on her main chute come sliding down onto the grate. She picked it up, threw it on the ground, and hosed it off. It was a
plastic garbage can lid from the plant. Guess some jokester threw it in her drum the night before.
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Post by lounge on Aug 1, 2008 19:28:40 GMT -5
well i had some random parts one the day the mechanic was being a smart a!! one time i was puring a wall and i had a dead pigeon come out the contractor picked it up and started making it do the can can then his wall blew out. had a screw driver i had lost in the cement silo when i was working on the bag house
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Post by Yard Bird on Dec 29, 2008 12:53:05 GMT -5
I had a dead cat, or at least I think it was a cat flop out and come down the chute. This critter had no hair on it from rolling around during mixing, it must have been in the feed bin or sand. I just told the customer that Fiber in this load was no extra charge . |
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Post by mauserman on Dec 29, 2008 20:15:53 GMT -5
When I was a new driver I nearly whooped the batch man's son's ass when this monster bull frog came down my chutes while pouring a trailer house footing for a family. I just knew the little smart ass was messing with me.
His dad was cool though and set me straight about froggies hibernating in the sand.
One company I worked for batched a skunk.
Said the mix stunk as they poured it but it it cured out alright.
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Post by mudhound on Jan 22, 2009 21:15:12 GMT -5
I got a workboot in a load last week, we get mudflaps all the time though. I have seen a whole section of a fin come loose inside the drum, and it came out over the hopper and bounced off the chute and landed in the pump, it was about 5 feet long all twisted up!
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Can't help but laugh though.
? OMG this subject was too gross!
. THE GUY WOULD ALWAYS THROW HIS LOSERS IN THE SAND HOPPER. NEEDLESS TO SAY THESE ROOSTERS WOULD END UP IN THE DELIVERED CONCRETE. 
. THE SALESMAN ALSO TOLD THE CONTRACTOR THAT THERE WAS NO CHARGE FOR THE EXTRA FIBER MESH FROM THE ROOSTERS ;D!....IF I'M LYING I'M DYING! A TRUE STORY! 
