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Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:55 pm
by Dave_L
They just make your lives so much easier.......well worth the money, same goes for concrete pumps. What you see below are infact two wagons, one 6.5m3 conveyor wagon with a 7.5m3 feed wagon to enable us to complete the pour in one hit. Started at 7.30am and finished by 9.15am.
Pumped floor screeds are another thing especially with underfloor heating, why work hard for when the price premium for doing it mechanically is so small??
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 7:01 pm
by Dave_L
This perhaps gives a better perspective to the plant setup. You can see the conveyor truck and the feed wagon.
Again, as always, the plant and final finish is only as good as the operator and I'm pleased to say John from S Morris Concrete is excellent. There's no prizes for a gung-ho mixer driver......
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 11:23 pm
by GB_Groundworks
They're great but not enough of them about
We use Mcfarlan pumping or our volumetric lads have a small pump £125 first hour then £60 an hour why struggle
We've got a pour about 4 metres from road into a 2m deep pit. One of these would be great but not an option I've found up in Leeds, we'll use a 400mm twin wall pipe hung off digger then once shutters are in we'll pump it in.
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 11:44 am
by Tony McC
We once did a 27m³ pour in the cellar of a pub refurb on Barlow Moor Road in Manchester and the main contractor would not pay for a pump so every sodding barrowful had to be steered down a triple flight of plank-covered steps by four of us working in convoy.
The only good thing that came out of that job was that we discovered a 'forgotten' cellar room that had around 60 crates of dust-covered spirits which somehow disappeared one evening after the brickies, chippies, sparks and plasterers had gone home leaving the site to us groundworkers. 