Redymix

[firefox]

Redymix is 80 miles away. I don't have any cost figures yet, but I figured you all would have a gut
feeling for this. Should I figure on getting a mixer and doing it myself? I do have a 5 Ton cargo truck
for hauling the bags of cement and agregate. Actually it is rated 5 ton cross country 10 ton on the highway.
But you have to figure in diesel costs etc. and this truck is no spring chicken.

I'll be putting in two slabs. one will be 24' x 48' by aprox. 6". The other will probably be 20' x 30' x 4".

This is a year or two off, but I want to plan out in detail ahead of time.

The 80miles is from Ely to Eureka Nevada.

Thanks,
Bruce

[Redoverfarm]

Bruce you are talking about a lot of yardage. My calculator is in the truck or I could give you a rough estimate.  You would need to know the PSI that you want to factor into the mix(3-5 bag mix). You will also need gravel and sand to haul.  I live some 40 miles from a batch plant and a 3000 mix runs about $120 yd delivered. This is not to mention that you will have to hump to keep running just small sections at a time.  There are some small projects that I will hand mix but I wouldn't touch that one.

[Redoverfarm]

Bruce the largest is 21.33 cuyds and the smaller is 7.40 cuyds. They should be able to get that on three trucks. Given the distance they will probably add the water once on site. Better have a couple people help on that large a pour.

[peternap]

What Redover said. I have seen people try to mix their own and I have never seen one successfully pour a slab.

[glenn kangiser]

That is too much for me - maybe you can find someone with one of these then they can add water to the dry stuff and mix it on site -- all done by computer.. about 10 yards per load.

[firefox]

Ok, would you say budgeting $5000 for this, not counting the labor associated with the prep and the pour,
would be a reasonable estimate?
Thanks!
Bruce

[glenn kangiser]

Sounds pretty close to me.  You may want to call for concrete rates for a closer estimate. Round number guess - 30 yards at 150.00=4500 plus $500 misc.

Eureka is the big gold mine isn't it, Bruce?

[MountainDon]

Who knows what the cement component will cost a couple years from now. Looking backwards a couple-three years it was much cheaper than now.

I couldn't imagine trying to mix all that myself. 

[firefox]

That's why I asked Don. You all are a lot more savy than I am.

Eureka was a big gold mining area a long time ago, and there still is some mining in that
county, but I don't think there is a lot left now. Eureka is a very small town, but with reasonable
facilities like water, power and sewer. Even the road I am on gets plowed! Mostly because it is on a school bus route. There is NO building department. Their attitude is it is your property, do what you want on it.
This does not mean that I will put a piece of junk up, it just means that I can do things like weld without
getting all kinds of things like xray inspections etc. I know when I make a bad weld, and since I am going to be living in it, you know it will be solid. My problem is that I usually over do it, then I get teased.
Bruce