I paid $90/yard for 5 yards ready mix delivered, here in south Florida about 2
months ago.
On May 5, 2011, at 11:23 PM, Tom Anderson <andersonww5l@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Patrick:
>
> You might also check if you have a "U-cart" or similar named operation in
> your area. They sell you the already mixed concrete (I used them on a 40 ft
> Rohn 25 base back in the 1980s). You just pay for the already mixed
> concrete. It somes in a trailer of varying sizes and you pull it to your
> site and back the trailer up and dump it in the hole. All we were required
> to do was wash out the cart before returning it. I just took it to a quarter
> car wash and invested $1 or so to wash the cart out.
>
> In the mid 1990s I hired a toweer contractor to put the base of a crank up
> Tri-ex 51 ft tower because where we moved is permeated with underground
> springs and the first hole 4x4x6 we had dug filled up with water overnight.
> We filled that in and the contractor dug and poured the concrete in 1 day.
>
> Tom, WW5L
>
> --- On Thu, 5/5/11, Patrick Barkey <n9rvee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Patrick Barkey <n9rvee@gmail.com>
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Concrete cost comparisons
>> To: towertalk@contesting.com
>> Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 6:22 PM
>> Here were the recent computations I
>> performed when considering
>> different types of concrete options.
>>
>> Amount needed: 2.1 yards
>>
>> 1. Red-Mix cost: $345.98, includes:
>>
>> $97/yard cost
>> $75 min. load fee (because its a small amount)
>> $68 mileage fee (I live in the sticks -- don't all true
>> hams?)
>>
>> 2. Quikcrete cost: $362.54, includes:
>>
>> $3.85 per 0.6 cu. ft. bag
>> 94.1 bags needed
>>
>> no charge for mixer (borrowed from neighbor)
>>
>> 3. Mix your own cost
>>
>> Lost my worksheet for this, but I calculated a cost of $190
>> for just
>> the Portland cement. Given that I would have to make
>> two hauls in my
>> pickup bed to get the gravel and sand, I quickly concluded
>> that
>> Redi-Mix was the only feasible option.
>>
>> - Pat
>> N9RV
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