1/2 ton cement mixer.......

JRscooby wrote:

time2roll wrote:

JRscooby wrote:
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.

Not to mention the renter will add the wrong amount of water and blame the company for the bad concrete.

The few loads I drove a mixer, it was impressed on me the job supervisor had to mark the ticket every time water was added

Grit dog wrote:

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.

The plants I hauled into would load a mixer with rock, spin for a few minutes, then run the rock back into stockpile. Put sand in first, because sand will likely be wet, then dry rock. Cement would go in last.
I could see how a company the did a lot of small jobs might come out owning something like that to self haul, avoid the extra cost of short loads delivered.
There is/was a company in the area that had bins, tank and mixer mounted on a truck. I talked to the driver, said it was hard to keep customers happy. Everybody wanted their little dab at the same time.

My point is, this seems like a poor solution to a non problem. If you need anything more than that mixer, get a truck. If not get a small mixer and mix on site. That mixer just seems like over or under Jill for any project!