The guys from HD Concrete in Vancouver Canada tour us around one of their volumetric concrete mixer trucks and also explain the advantages of concrete mixed on site versus conventional, pre-batched ready mix supply.
Hi, i'm french and here whe don't have these type of trucks, whe only have the drum trucks ( limited to 8 m3 for 8*4 trucks and 10 m3 for semi ), whe have all your types of pumps ( trailers, boom and recently the placing booms). Thanks for sharing your jobs, greetings from a jaw crusher in a quarry in yhe north east of France ( the Vosges mountains)
Our tandem steer mixers will haul 10.5 (legally). We used to have trailer units that would carry as much as 15 cubic meters, but they’ve since been phased out over the years. Thank you for watching the channel my brother 🙏
Shoot, I remember working with Matt and Sid’s father and him telling me how proud he was of his teenage boys running wheelbarrow on the crew during spring/summer break. They’ve come a long ways. It really is a great story!!!
I’ve been running a pro all volumetric (formerly known as reimer) in Ontario since 2004. The latest fully computerized models are so much easier for a new or even veteran operator to run thanks mostly in part to the water pump rpm being fully adjustable making slump changes a breeze. I still run a 20 year old truck and the biggest factor I’ve found as far as quality of concrete is keeping that mixing auger spotless. Running a super plasticizer in the heat of the summer also helps to improve workability when the coarse aggregate is very dry in the summer. My dream is to keep the coarse aggregate completely saturated in the hot summer months but we don’t quite have the infrastructure in place for that.
Lots of benefits for sure. I believe they can add/remove retarder and/or accelerator on the fly as well. Is pumps guys LOVE the fact they can also make grout for us to prime out with at the start of the pour.
I believe we only have 2 trucks in our area, both ran by the same company. I’ve pumped with them a couple times. Much smaller trucks than this one and not quite as technologically advanced. Great video!
@@canadianconcretepumper1979 i have no doubt they would be the bees knees for shotcrete. I just have to go and convince the ready mix plants to buy some!
if i could have 1 toy it would be a cement tech volumetric mixer, tbh i have seen some that are made like anormal front discharge mixer, talk about sweet
Not sure if operator error, but the one time I used a volumetric truck we had to waste a little over a yard before the mix was usable. It was super wet and rocky. Also it bled like hell. Took ages to set up.
Checkin in here from TENNESSEE. Volumetric trucks here seem to do good for everything but line pumping, the mix just doesn’t seem to do well, maybe it’s an individual company
That’s a great question. I’m going to ask them about this. My guess would be that microfibres yes, big monster steel fibres, no. That’s just me completely guessing however.
Nine of ten m3 than better the drum mixer match better and easy ,and we can load 13 m3 not in Amsterdam city than the max load 5 m3 😢than we load that in 10 cuubers we have no smaller ,greetings scott ,piet from amsterdam netherlands.👍🏻
I used to feel the same. I do find that these newer trucks are far less headaches than the old school units. With a good/mindful driver, I now actually prefer these on many instances (small/residential/slow/remote pours).
