Hello best friends, its me the guy who asked if I should become a concrete plant manager 2 months ago. I am now. I promise I will send you guys only the hottest loads already going off slightly wetter than you ordered,1 hour late with 200 dough balls in them.
>>2963360Congratulations! Good luck and I hope they gave you a nice raise!
>>2963360>I promise I will send you guys only the hottest loads already going off slightly wetter than you ordered,1 hour late with 200 dough balls in them.Nice.
>>2963379in all honestly I was a great driver. I was never rejected in 2 years, always tested bang on for slumps. I flooded a load one time which everyone ever is good for once. Never argued with a customer or complained, only a couple of times did I have to say "this isn't going to work, get the excavator over here" or "if I set up this way when I start pouring the weight is gonna knock this sumbitch over". I had several finishers compliment me as being an extremely competent driver. I've put those fuckers in some squirrely situations backing zigzag a long ways without hitting anything. Trailer pump guys always hated me because they don't know slumps and think a 9 inch slump is a five but fuck them, I have water and we still got along just fine. Looking forward to moving up in the world. The guys who interviewed me stressed they all started as drivers or loader operators and if I stick around I stand a good chance of being a big wig. I have a pretty good understanding of how the plant works already and have run my main one a lot, and alone several times. I'll miss some aspects of being a mixer driver but it gets old.
good job anon, I'll vote for you in the 2032 prezlections
>>2963360state employee herethe schizophrenic living across from the plant keeps emailing me dust complaints from different emails as if I don't know they are all from himdo something about it before he CCs the governor again
Congrats anonHow much to get my driveway paved? Wrenching on my shitbox in the winter on snowy gravel ain't cuttin it anymore.
>>2963540measure the square footage you want paved and add 4 inches for the third dimension and run it through a yardage calculator. Depending on who you are and the company you can get 10 yards for roughly ~2000 but that's just for the truck to show up. You will still need to frame it and get at least one of your buddies to watch a few videos on framing and help you for some beers. And then buy the come alongs and probably a bullfloat unless you really don't care. You don't need magnesium screedboard for your driveway though just use a 2x4. Hell if you guys are good at it and can do it in under an hour consider forming a concrete finishing business. The trick is don't pour out the whole truck and fuck yourself, do like 2-3 yards at a time and screed it flat then get back to pouring. The driver knows how to deliver concrete, it's a 50/50 split if he knows or is going to help you.
>>2963360not /diy/
>>2963360Hey man i actually have a question regarding concrete that maybe you can answer. I have a job where a small part of it is a steepish slope that i want to pour with a 3 inch slump. The rest of it is flat and I want to pour that with a 4-5 inch slump. Is it normal for people to just pour the slope first, then ask the driver to add more water and then pour the rest? Do drivers carry enough water in their trucks to do this?
>>2964074>measure the square footage you want paved and add 4 inches for the third dimension and run it through a yardage calculatorYou know you can do length in feet x width in feet x .33 to calculate the yardage needed for a 4 inch thick slab
>>2964074Honestly i'm always shocked when people recommend DIYing concrete from a truck. I don't doubt that people do it all the time but for me as a carpenter who occasionally does concrete that shit is nerve wracking as fuck and i always pay finishers to be there on the day to do that stuff.
>>2963360i quit my job a year ago because i got depressed that all of my tax money was going to jewish wars.i'm not as depressed anymore. is it worth being a cement truck driver? i have a cdl/tanker/hazmat and want something simple i can just go do then come home with no weight on my shoulders
>>2964088I feel like being a truck driver would be so stressful at times that you would come home exhausted every day. People have a lot of money on the line when it comes to pouring concrete.
>>2964074Go thicker than 4 inch for a driveway wtf
>>2964084Yes. At the very least a concrete truck will have 90 gallons of water. Its more common to have 130, usually. >>2964085I dont finish concrete.>>2964088Yes as long as you find a company that has work. You will be home every night. You have to be good at driving the truck though. Almost hitting something by an inch is an almost daily occurrence sometimes but it isn't hard, just dont actually hit anything. The hardest part even if you have consistently good hours is they will probably he consistently inconsistent. Sometimes you're gonna come in at 11:30 at night because you can't pour a 700 yard slab with traffic.
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>>2964087Yeah idk I see it all of the time so I have a pretty good understanding of how it works. I wouldnt pour my own house but a driveway or a patio or something fuck it. But yeah I've been on COD jobs where the customer clearly has no idea what they're doing (even if they framed and graveled it up very well) and then you have to judge how much of their pride you'll hurt in front of their family if you start making suggestions that show they dont have a clue. Some people are receptive, most have something to prove and want to suffer. Takes a little finesse to tease out which situation you're dealing with without hurting anyone's pride. But those kinds of jobs at least where I live are super rare.
>>2964102Yeah the forming and prep work is all easy and can be done at a leisurely pace if your life allows but once the concrete truck is there it's like a timer is on and you need to get it out of the truck, screeded level, bull floated and finished within a certain amount of time or you just threw away thousands of dollars. And screeding, floating and finishing are all difficult tasks that require experience to be done correctly. Maybe you're more patient that the truck drives i have to deal with ha ha.
>>2964106I'm one of the best. That mus is good for at least three hours as long as you tell the driver to keep if workable its fine. The min problem is people thinking anything actually gets poured at a real 5, it never happens. Its going to be realistically a 7 or 8. Wet it up to the point you can actually move that shit around, get 2 or 3 yards out, screed it and move on. After spray some water on if and float it then brush it if you want. The trucks have plenty of water even if it takes you two hours but keep it workable. Nobody pours a 4 unless its a hand curb or steps in a footing and nobody pours an actual 5 for anything else ever. I see mud get tested every single day, the slumps that get functionally utilized arent what you think. Even big commercial jobs that order a 7 with water reduced will put another 20 gallons on 10 yards.
>>2964118I made some typos but I think the message is clear enough, I need to go to sleep but I can check this thread tomorrow
>>2964097This. I'm just a hack farmer, but hell at least do 5 or 6" >>2964102I don't claim to know what I'm doing and will take any and all advise from the concrete truck guy at any time. Some of em even hop in and help from time to time, not expected, but damn well appreciated. I'm too old, fat and out of shape to mess with concrete much. It absolutely fucks me up. I'm really not all that fat either, but I have zero flexibility and everything hurts.
>>2964119>>2964118Thanks bro, I appreciate the advice a lot. Is it typical for people to order a higher psi concrete to make up for the higher water content when they add water?
