Thanks for posting the video Sam. Most all of us appreciate the info. Being able to see these machines in action allows us to form our own opinions for what we do. Just like what you set the channel up for in the first place. Not enough videos or information sometimes to make an educated guess on what may work for many of us. Keep up the great work! Ignore the haters.
Stop clowning about the grass what is the annual temp does it freeze, does the ground crack you don’t know and they do quality work. He would mess somebody over.
That’s what you do when you don’t have a clue on what you’re doing. Anyone who pours concrete on grass don’t care about the end result.The subgrade is the most important part of the job.
What is more fun? Running the skid steer with the mixer on the front, or watching someone else lift the 80 pound cement bags? LOL That attachment doing three bags with minimal effort sure beats the twenty other Manual Labor methods. I bet it mixes better than the rotary drums too.
Lol… I’m going to post tree related and second generation dodge videos. Concrete mixers are what you mix sand, aggregates, cement and water with. Lol. Put concrete over organic material is never recommended unless we see it done on RU-vid… rock on man. Love the channel
Same one you built your pump house slab with?? (Some of us pay attention LOL) I've got one like the oldest one there, one of many reasons my back hurts so flippin bad!! 8[ That skid-steer one is better than indoor plumbing!! 8) LOL --gary
Just put a bolt, two washers and a nut in those holes with the nuts on the outside. Problem solved. I can't believe you poured cement without removing the top soil and laying down gravel and using galvanized fencing instead of standard pre-rusted fencing. Other than that a pretty interesting vid.
You really need safety grates over the mixer . That thing will grab your arm and drag your entire body in . You shouldn't have the blade spinning near the bags either that can get you pulled in. I stand on mine but I have thick safety grates on ours. Input my water in first then add 5 bags at a time usually stoping around 25 80# bags ours can hold 30 but it's a little much for the hydrologic lines I can usually mix 2 pallets of 80# of concrete and pour in about 1 to 1.5 hours cleanup up and loading takes about 30 min
I’d rather have a truck chute it into a bucket from the driveway. Short-loads are 3yd minimum where I’m from. That looks like about 4 yards. Truck would be cheaper than bags, lots faster, lots less work, standard bucket holds more than mixer bucket. I agree that that’s a sweet setup for remote jobs though. Fresh mud gives you more time to lay it down, too.
@@VBELTandSON that’s good to know in process off choosing which one to buy. Lot mate tell not to get the Asv because of track setup and he couldn’t get to run more than week with out breaking down 200 hrs he sold it March I can get TL12 r2 here in Australia thanks all best
People aren't figuring in cartage and wait time on the concrete truck..its $150 yd PLUS cartage and wait time. When you have to fill a skidsteer bucket n haul to your work area the time adds up fast ! I bought a used mixer like this for $5k because I'm far from a quarry so cartage would be very expensive. Plus a lot of areas on my farm where I pour concrete aren't accessible for a truck. When I'm done with my projects I can sell the mixer for damn near what I paid for it !! It came in handy when I had to repair all the posts in the poll barn..could only do a few at a time..not worth getting a truck.
It is not a cement truck, it is a concrete truck. Cement is an additive to make concrete. You cannot pour or finish cement, you pour concrete and finish concrete.
Let’s say you wanted to do a barn slab all by yourself. Say 75 yards. Time is not an issue nor is manpower. But money is. If I already have a track steer and am open to buying a specific machine/attachment would this work or is there a better option. Really looking to save major money and do it over a week or two. But obviously I would like to minimize the work as much as possible. Thoughts?
I have the eterra 16 cubic foot unit and it works well. Cost wise where I'm at, it costs me about 2/3 what delivery from a concrete company costs. I paid around 8300 for the unit so I might break even if I did around 100 yards of concrete. Do your numbers and decide what's best for you. I like to look at it like I get a paid for attachment eventually, but delivered concrete is by far more efficient.
@@reliableloren2871 great info and thank you. I didn’t realize those mixers are so costly, in the back of my mind I was assuming 4/5k maybe or even lower. That changes the math. Personally I’d feel obligated to get my money back at least once by either renting it or doing a job with it plus the savings earned in doing my own project. Just musing, and thanks again
Next tine get the concrete truck and 4 wheel barrows. You could have shuttled the concrete faster than you could have mixed it. 1 wheel Barrow is 1/32 of a yard of concrete. Ask me how I know.
@@Kashaww me and 3 more guys did a cart path on a lake property once. It was 26 yards total. The ground was so steep we had to drag the legs of the wheel barrows all the way down the path.
I would of used a concrete truck and hauled it in a plywood box in the bed off a pick truck. That's one of the ways I've done it. Tilt the box so the concrete runs out when you open the gate. You can haul a half a yard at a time. Mixing concrete with bags cost a lot more than from a concrete truck.
Idk why I even talk in these videos. No one listens. 🤦🏼♂️ we mixed more than a cement truck load and still have extra material left over. material cost was a less than half of what a cement truck load would have cost. This was cheaper for us and 0 issues.
@@VBELTandSON 4 yards here cost $600 from a concrete truck. Or 160 80 pound bags or concrete mix from the big box store for approximately $550. 4000 concrete mix here I'd 135 dollars a yard from the concrete plant. I can't see how its possible to save the way you're doing it. Also you need the skidsteer and the mixer.
@@VBELTandSON But that is a tracked skid. They tend not to mess up turf as much. But I am not there so you were the better judge of that. Just asking. Oh and I did see the part where you mentioned that. "If you have an extra machine why not use the rig to make life even easier ?" Yup. I am in agreement.
Placing concrete on topsoil and grass is not good practice. Plus there should have been a 4" stone base installed. In about six months it will start cracking.
Where are you getting sacks for less than premix? Here I would pay 150$ yd for sacks with a veteran discount or 115$ yd premix with 4yd minimum. It would take a heck of a lot of small jobs like this for me to justify one of these or even your old school mixer
hi sam my name is Martin I come from Denmark and I was wondering if you would like me to come over a month and work for you and your father it should not cost you anything other than a ticket back and forth. MVH Martin Riisgaard Svendsen. 😁
That would be a CONCRETE MIXER! Cement is a powder that's in those bags just like flour. That's like calling flour and bread the same thing just like milk and ice cream. Totally different ingredients.
