Any of you on any BIG jobs?

[gant]

I was just wondering if you guys were on any big jobs right now?? I'm on the Holcim Cement plant here in MO.. we're doing on average 1000 yards a day there.. 60 hours a week

[BillyCement]

"Big" for us is a job that requires about 150+ yards. Two weeks ago we had a 500+ job. Those are the kind I like. No need to handle the extra chutes, no time wasted with wheelbarrows. Just dump in the pump and go. No tips, either. But, I can live with that.

[db2179]

we are just started 2 jobs one is about 17000 yards the other about 12000 yards sould be alot of fun.

[gant]

we will be on this job for another 2-3 years.. our plant pretty much quit doing everything but this job... we have been running non stop back and forth for the last 9 months down there..there are about 8 different contractors down there that order from us..I think I've actually poured from inside the cab maybe 10 times in the last 6 months for so.. mostly pump, or conveyer, bucket or buggy.. oh and we are supposed to get 250,000 yards out of this job

[slumpy]

damn you guys you must be racking in the money it's slower than slow in michigan we barely get 40 hrs in a week and im sure Matt see's the same thing and were the largest ready mix company in michigan and there's nothing very big going on at all

[gant]

we're gettin 55-60 a week.. this week i only have about 20 because of the rain.. and 8 of that was holiday lol.. but we're doing over 1000 yds a day and have been starting at 3 am for some of the big pours.. 2 days lastweek we had to be on the job at 4 am for a 420 yd. pour.. we got it done by 7 am two days in a row..we averaged over 210 yards an hour the company that ordered it owes us lunch now.. we made them a bet

[concretejoe]

Nothing real big here now. A lot of yardage though. It's more spread out. That makes for a long day. I'd much rather have a 1,000 yard dump and run than 1,000 yards all over the place.

[gant]

we just did 1400 today.. started at 2:50 and got off at 4:50 and my truck went down lol

[batchmaster]

The company I worked for had a job in their backyard that was about 100,000 yards, and they did nothing but that job, squeezing in a few others here and there, out of a brand new plant in a market they were trying to break into, that plant is closed now. Once that job was done they had nothing to fall back on, no day to dayers that keep you going. Hopefully that doesn't happen to anyone.

[Mort]

We've got a bunch of small/big jobs (parking garages, a 12-story hotel, senior housing, etc.), but the really big one is widening I-5 through a major city. Its not like in the midwest, where you just add some dirt to the side of the road and put asphalt over it. You have to add lanes and on/offramps through a busy hilly city. That's a bunch of concrete.

[dolese203653]

I've been with our company over 8 years. When I started, Smith & Pickel was building Chesapeake Energy's world headquarters. Now we are on building 16 and still going. Flintco has been building hospital additions within 1 mile of our plant for the same amount of time. I guess why our plant has over 50 days this year of 1000 yards a day. Helps to be a central mix plant too!

[herslip98]

We had a 1700 yard pour today. Started at 3:30 this morning and i punched out at 3:30 this afternoon. We used two portables at wetbatch and a ross drybatch, And not one load out of spec. Im going to bed now.

[gant]

we've slowed down, a little.. the job we are doing has caught up for now.... but we are only 55% done with concrete down there.. plus we've been getting rain 2-3 days a week for the past 2 months..and the residential is picking up here as well..

[dwfnga]

???Not doing much right now we just opened this plant in March and it's still early in the season for us, Only a couple of our plants are doing anything so we go out of town alot but we have a big Factory warehouse job (Yanmar) starting up in June that should keep us busy for about 18 months. Then hopefully the housing market will be up again.

[Ideal Driver]

Got one that's going to be starting soon. Its about thirty miles away and our maintenance guys are putting up a portable plant for it. 24,000 yards for a resort on a lake in the area.

[cfconcrete]

We're gonna be doing an athletic complex (10,000 yds) 2 hotels, and a parking garage, all right in our hometown, and some municipal work, the residental work is SLOW....

[LEAD DOG]

WE GOT INTERSTATE 271,77 & 480 BRIDGE DECKS (night pours). IN CLEVELAND WE GOT THE FULTON ROAD BRIDGE OVER THE METRO PARK ZOO (40,000 yds.). STATE ROUTE 94, STATE ROUTE 8.WIDENING & REPAVING....THAT IS, IF WE CAN GET THE FUEL TO DO THEM . BESIDES THAT, THERE'S NOTHING TO WRITE HOME TO MOM ABOUT IN OHIO .

[gant]

we've got over 100,000 yards left at this job we are on.. plus they are expanding I-55 and the hwy 40.. we have over 75 bridge decks and about 6 high rises to do this summer..

[Mort]

Well, our I-5 expansion is finished for the most part. They're doing some work on I-90, but that's our other plant. Boeing is expanding so we've got a bunch of stuff there, but a lot of it is dumptruck concrete paving (better be damn sure that mud is in spec).

Aside from that, its not any of the gigantic stuff like Gant is working on. Lucky bastard.

[gant]

we're still a little slow right now.. weather has been terrible..and the job we are on is caught up for now.. but it is supposed to take off again soon.. and apparently there is an Iron Smelter going in about a mile from our plants back gate.. there is an old closed road that leads to where the job is going to be.. we wont even have to get on any main roads..