1/2 ton cement mixer.......
I'll leave at this. Only real issue towing is was the 5000 or so lbs of moving mass on trailer. Otherwise at 7-8000 lbs total it was not a big deal... My son took a picture jack knifed in ...
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JRscooby wrote:dodge guy wrote:
So are we to expect to run back and forth to the cement place to get a load? That would barely be enough for 10X10 pad! Seems to me this is for mixing bagged concrete on site. I rented a smaller one to do my Hit Tub pad. Worked perfect. And I used my 01 Explorer.
I fail to stand under this question. This trailer looks like a good way to avoid short load charges. IMHO it would be even better if you could pick up the sand, rock, and cement loaded in the hopper, add water and mix when get to site. Not likely to happen, because once the water is in the owner knows the renter will hurry to unload it.
If you have more than a cy or 2 to place, you get a mixer truck, or yes run back n forth. I'm sure you could rent it as a big mortar mixer, but I bet the concrete supplier want's the same $ full of concrete or empty.
The hypothetical dry batch scenario is not a reasonable solution as the drum would need to be dried out 100% between each load.
When I have to have concrete dry batched, it's about double the charge as it takes a truck out of service way longer per load plus the effort to dry it out.
My last dry batch scenario, just looked it up today as I am pricing another project that requires it. In 2018, 1 way haul of just over an hour, dry batch, 3 trucks on 2 different days, 6 total, was about $16,000. This was for about 25cy of concrete and about $5k or that was the mix design and additional admixtures (for a 2 day 6000psi mix). Or over $400/cy for just the concrete, vs approx $100/cy currently in that area for 4000psi air entrained structural concrete.
