I had a go at mixing my own concrete to try and save money Would love to hear your comments on this project Link for my shop is on my instagram in the bio.
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@X1Trickle6 ай бұрын
The Cat hahaha wants its print too Tom lol
@steenmolving99736 ай бұрын
More fool you for not locking the cat away after the first lot of footprints.
@johnwarwick41056 ай бұрын
Always find cat prints in concrete even if you don’t have a cat 😂😂.
@HightowerLSSD6 ай бұрын
Between you and Colin's videos, I bet this man will stay busy for a while. Good on you gents for helping him out!
@robertallen34416 ай бұрын
many years ago i made a concrete cover for a cesspit. At the time my wife and I were newlyweds, so I wrote her name in pebbles on the cover. Lets say, I was not flavour of the month.😃
@lemmy99966 ай бұрын
ABC Concrete, as seen on the Colin Furze underground garage video!!👍👍
@charlypeters26156 ай бұрын
Thats a secret, don't tell everyone 🤣
@h8feight24 күн бұрын
Question, was this before or after the secret pouring of concrete in the hole?
@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb5 ай бұрын
Fantastic solution. If only we all had buddies with Volumetric Concrete Mixers...
@cleanmachine086 ай бұрын
Those mobile volumetric concrete batch plants are a game changer. The first time I used one there wasn't a single wasted drop of concrete. Plus you get the full working life of the mix - extra half hour makes a huge difference in the heat.
@jdmowers6 ай бұрын
We are mixing concrete using a barrel mixer,for a 35nt mix For 1 cube 320kg cem 52n orign 1070kg sand.fine and coarse mix 860kg 15mm stone 1L per cube Sika WRA 1L per cube concrete Plasticser 140L water 160L water with no additives
@markedwards1586 ай бұрын
Every KZbinr needs a mascot, for Tom its a cat. A new star has been born. 🐈 ❤
@matthewfoster66206 ай бұрын
Every pour we've done has had either the cat or bloody pigeons walk through it! Adds to the character....
@Derf13136 ай бұрын
The other thing about site mixing is that you have a longer lead time before the catalyst kicks in. I've had a few trucks that either had a long drive, or got stuck in traffic, that the concrete is so "hot" that there's almost no working time & it get hard too quickly!! Thanx !
@oldbloke1006 ай бұрын
In a concrete mixer truck, the concrete should be mixed for a good 10 minutes. It would be good to get it crush tested to see if it comes up to strength. I was a mixer driver for 20 years in Australia.
@jakobrebeki6 ай бұрын
We had one of those lorries to lay the base layer for the long load parking bay at work. The concrete was coming out so quick we could not keep up with it. We had to slow him down. I could easy recommend this type of as you need it and on the spot concrete service. Have a great day Tom....
@PK_Blinder6 ай бұрын
You just knew the cat had to be in on the act... 😂😂
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
I never see it until the concrete comes
@belfalas406 ай бұрын
My cat's called Emily (among other names), and that's the sort of shit she'd pull... Great vid, thanks Tom!
@jamesedwards11666 ай бұрын
Cat had me cracking up 😂
@zombiehoggy37015 ай бұрын
As a groundworker who works with concrete daily, these are a last resort if a plant breaks down or something. For small pours, fair enough they are great BUT for house floors or bigger they are a waste of time. I would doing a foundation a few months back and had 5 jägers unload in the time it took him to mix and empty everything.
@lukekelchner54716 ай бұрын
Thanks as always for including us Tom!
@blackpoolrox64754 ай бұрын
Used one of these set ups by a company on the Fylde coast. Superb!! Efficient, no fuss, no mess cost effective!
@richardcanning73516 ай бұрын
Great job Tom. I think you need to lock the cat up every time you are concreting. 😂
@stco24266 ай бұрын
Dunno. It seems to make better foor prints in the mud than he does. 😗
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
I forgot about it
@richardcanning73516 ай бұрын
@@stco2426 😂
@welsty20036 ай бұрын
Me and the father in law work 2 electric mixers. Cement bags on a pallet, sand and gravel mix from quarry in a trailer. 1 man works the 2 mixers, 1 barrows and if we can get more help, 1 or 2 can do the levelling. Can do a surprising area in day
@lurchie6 ай бұрын
The cat prints give the concrete a artistic flair!
@HughzieTube6 ай бұрын
One of the houses I deliver parcels to has one of them fancy printed/coloured concrete drives. Right along the side of the porch and across the garage door is a load of cat footprints! lol
@Mattay20Ай бұрын
Your videos are really interesting and filled with experience. Found you through furze but really enjoy what you do.
@charlotteashleyfarm6 ай бұрын
I’m glad it’s not just our cat that does that 🙈😂xx
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
It’s been a nightmare
@andythorne12616 ай бұрын
thats the best idea ive seen, thought it was ideal at Colin tunnel, next I guess is a artic and stepframe setup, with a dumper, good luck,
@onlygazza6 ай бұрын
I always had this idea of making a concrete pit ramped down the same width as a loader bucket and as deep then mixing the concrete on mass with the telescopic bucket itself and just pouring it where you want afterwards, never got around to making the pit but it’s still in the back of my mind 😊
@deedoor306 ай бұрын
Getting Trolled by the cat. Priceless.
@thelightofficial6666 ай бұрын
For a lamb you are very competent. When you become a full blown sheep god help us
@davidabbott39276 ай бұрын
Well done Tom . Very smart . You have a great future x
@mendovato6 ай бұрын
A cat brings a man down to his knees😂
@eriklindh43396 ай бұрын
I mix a lot of concrete in a tractor mixer, pan mixer. with a 2m chute so that you reach 4m from the tractor's rear tire. we buy cement in big sacks 300kg/pc. a water tank with a timer-controlled pump, which is started remotely from the loader. on the loader I have a bucket that is big enough to take 2 full buckets for a mixture. I do 6-8m3 per hour 👍
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
Handy to know
@Reed65106 ай бұрын
Nice Job 👍
@tommyobrien94805 ай бұрын
Great job and you are spot on when you say brushing concrete is not a good idea, but those mixers will definitely Not save you money a waste of time and effort
@Tomlamb9805 ай бұрын
It saved me over half
@tommyobrien94805 ай бұрын
@@Tomlamb980 I think you are not doing your costing right.
@---l---6 ай бұрын
Those are some good mates
@GRUBB-MUDD6 ай бұрын
Nce job from America
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
Thanks
@The-Mighty-Orange6 ай бұрын
I would have to mix all that with a shovel, and a belle mixer, I'm old school 😂
@stevenwright68696 ай бұрын
I use a tegale dockeys year old tractoer mixer just happy I have that used to have a tub mixer somone else liked the tub mixer more then me helped themselves to it. I now just take my time doing bit as and when. I like doing stuff at my own speed then I know it's done right. I just use 65 shovels of what we call asrised in this area 🤷🏻♂️, as it's cheaper buying that then sand and gravel that's been washed I think the professionals call it ballast I can pick up 8 ton with the tractor and trailer 5 miles up the road and 2 members of my family work at the place so get a bit of a discount. But obusialy can't guarantee the amount of sand to gravel but never seemed to be a problem. Then I add 5 bags of cement not sure if that's to much or not enough but it's the same mix my grandfather used and none of that cracked that's been down since the second world war. Then we nomily do 6-8" depending on the amount of traffic will have over the concrete. with 4mm rebar and I've started adding fibreglass I can't really comment on if that's worth it or not as I don't no. We do a wet mix so the concrete sort of looks after it's self. I borrow my mates petrol tamping thing I have to say that's a very good bit of kit. I am not expert on concreting but I been doing like this since I was a youngster with my father and grandfather all seems ok🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
@Jim-Scott6 ай бұрын
Ooh, a baler! I've spent many, many hours laying under a Hesston. Can you come up with a portable inspection pit for use in the field when you drop a string and have to rethread? Keeping one in the toolbox with the penknife, screwdriver, 10" Bahco adjustable and bit of emery paper would be very useful.
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
Re tieing strings is the worst in a field of hard stubble
@concernedcitizen31636 ай бұрын
@b980 its at least 30 or more years since i baled rape straw. still have the gouges out of me back .
@padgemoments6 ай бұрын
Nice job Tom!
@peterclarke33006 ай бұрын
I thought you might do a Olly and have a feed mixer Tom 🤦♂️👏👏👍👍
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
Next time!
@roberthiggins64016 ай бұрын
Nice concrete Tom! Bloody cat!
@buzzkillington33546 ай бұрын
Would be very handy to have a volumetric in the fleet could make decent money with the price of concrete at the moment
@LBguru746 ай бұрын
Great video Tom. Just to let you know CEMI is good for early setting but CEMII will continue to gain even more strength after 28days making it more durable. CEMII also contains significantly less carbon.
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
Thanks
@azharc1236 ай бұрын
Looks very nice Tom.
@markbriggs67865 ай бұрын
Used this company on my house build very good 👍
@euan73106 ай бұрын
Waiting on the bird prints next 😂😂
@Juzzy5206 ай бұрын
Well done mate!!🍺💪💪👍
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
Thanks 👍
@briangadsby66536 ай бұрын
Looks like the concrete had gone off plenty by the time you came along to pan it ,Just had a price for C45 to do our yard about 150m cube with 360 kg cement per meter at £129.50,Should have done it 5 years ago would have cost a lot less money and we would have had good use of it ,Never seen a farm with to many sheds or to much concrete
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
Yer it’s coming down in price it was 155
@Farming-Technology6 ай бұрын
That's a good price.
@colhonk29166 ай бұрын
Clever stuff.
@edwardhammock246 ай бұрын
I'm about to do a house. This looks to be a good alternative to minimix where you could be left with part loads.
@markbusby97096 ай бұрын
Good effort Tom, concreting in volume not easy, especially if you are looking for a power float finish, always fighting time & weather 👍
@peterthomas1205 ай бұрын
Don't blame you tom save money where you can
@dfross876 ай бұрын
We do smaller jobs like this ourselves (because where we farm is too far from anywhere to easily get concrete delivered), but the BIG jobs we contract out to a mob who bring in a much larger version of that truck (some assembly required on site). Plus there has to be enough room for them to bring all the raw materials out and dump them. And space to drive around to load materials into the mixer. Last big job was the main workshop floor. No way I was mixing 400+ cubic metres 2 cubic metres at a time🥴! Mixer plant and a concrete pump and some hired minions make for a much easier job (and a lot more strain on the wallet 🤯).
@schmails6 ай бұрын
Tom Lamb. He's a Farmer.... and cat strangler. 🙂. Looks Great! Thumbs up to ABC Concrete! (but I'm in The States).
@scrapgoduk6 ай бұрын
For a moment you thought about winging the screwdriver, would of made a worst mess. haha
@philipwood1236 ай бұрын
The cat is the star. Made me LOL
@Monkeysic6 ай бұрын
That cat 😂😂😂. I am getting a 40x48 foot pad poured for a shop and it will be around 11k us dollars. Concrete is so $. Use to be the poor man's building material not anymore. That truck is the cats whiskers! Super slick!! Haven't seen anything like that around here!
@Lorddanielrushton3716 ай бұрын
Great contraption. I wish we had those here in the States. I buy quick create here, but I only use small amounts.
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
Maybe one day!
@houseofgill6 ай бұрын
Great video. Laughing so hard at the cat
@DEADB33F6 ай бұрын
Trouble with mix-on-site stuff is that it relies on the skill of the driver/operator to get a reliably good mix. Have used this system twice. First time had great results, second time was shocking (to the point where we refused to pay), so I said never again. ...I'm only 10 mins from Newark concrete though and their readymix prices aren't too bad so long as you need a full load. For anything up to a couple of cube I've got an electric mixer which just about gets the job done.
@ronarant28976 ай бұрын
Tom the cat was just following your lead by leaving her paw prints!
@Piglife1016 ай бұрын
I was told a few years back the volumetric were classed as plant equipment so could be driven on a car licence! No tacho and up to 50 tonne on a rigid or something as well
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
First I’ve heard of it
@markfryer98805 ай бұрын
Sounds suss to me. That is definitely classed as a Heavy Rigid Vehicle here in Australia as it has more than two axles, Light Rigid or Medium Rigid. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@buddysinsight98346 ай бұрын
I would invest in a bull float Tom it will flatten it much better when the concrete is still wet. They didn’t really tamp it to get all of the pits out first. Scrapping only just leaves it full of holes.
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
I’ve got one but we were just being lazy
@FatLadofYork6 ай бұрын
We have an old volumetric mixer on an old drag trailer chassis & pto driven off a fastrac.
@jamesi.fraser4596 ай бұрын
That truck is quite the machine, not like hat here in Eastern Canada 🇨🇦 .
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
What do you use
@jamesi.fraser4596 ай бұрын
@@Tomlamb980 Eastern Canada mainly three axle pre mix drum style dispensing trucks. 8-10 +cu. yard loads
@trevorsidley76976 ай бұрын
Definitely food for thought. This is the only comment I can make Tom without laughing about the Cat. They ALWAYS want to do it.
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
I know
@GFSwinger16936 ай бұрын
Gangsta cat!
@ashleyflint35015 ай бұрын
Hope there were no lupin seed left in the truck tray that carried your sand and gravel , not like my friends concrete floor which now has lupins growing in it !
@timcoombe78806 ай бұрын
Cats gotta cat!
@ryanlotgd6 ай бұрын
dang cats mine is the same dosnt matter if im lifting a floorboard or going into the loft he can be outside somewhere hes first in every time and takes several hours to reappear
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
Bloody things
@TheRealInscrutable6 ай бұрын
For texture try a roller covered in cat paw prints. More cat!
@callumkendall51006 ай бұрын
Use both volumetric and barrel mixers depending on the size of the job. Where are you getting the cement from in bulk?
@claretbuck18826 ай бұрын
Top job bud 👍🏻
@amonynous90416 ай бұрын
LOL, the cat. ♥
@gwenyngruffydd6 ай бұрын
From my experience you can’t mix it for cheaper. Buying ready mix has always been cheaper round here. Especially when you buy the cement by the 25kg bag. And work out the extra labour it takes to mix at home. Unless you have a pan mixer and digger yourself otherwise you will pay the hire on that too.
@olski0016 ай бұрын
It could have been worse Tom, you could have paid someone to pour a specialist liquid screed in your new kitchen and a cat practically swims through it. Had to wait for it to firm up, knock off the high points and then buy a 25KG bag of specialist screen to fill in a load of paw sized holes 🤦🏻♂️. Can your mix be pumped?
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
Oh mate
@olski0016 ай бұрын
Shame it won’t let me post the photo on here!
@OutofTownwithRobinBell6 ай бұрын
good job!
@br67686 ай бұрын
That machine sounds like a Willy Wonka factory.. I was expecting everlasting gobstoppers to start rolling out the other end lol
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
Your right
@noisytim6 ай бұрын
The shoeprint is a great idea, lol :D
@stco24266 ай бұрын
Very interesting and well filmed. So do you get ~10m3 out of a load? Expect you could refill the lorry during the pour to keep things moving along, but it'll get more work to level etc and you'll need a lot more areas prepared, rolled and formed up. If you were to use fibres where would you add these, please? Whenever I've made concrete it's been by adding cement to '20 to naught' aggregate rather than mixing gravel and sand so you're well ahead of me on all accounts. Never knew about SEM 1 v 2. Thanks for making and sharing. (subbed).
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
I’d like to use fibres as usually do but didn’t have any on this occasion
@stuffbyneilsmith6 ай бұрын
Love how the cat paw prints annoyed you but you still had to write your name in it 😂
@PiezPiedPy6 ай бұрын
He needs to add a bog brush to that piece of kit ;)
@AndyCallaway6 ай бұрын
Lol. That cat.
@2305macleod6 ай бұрын
Concrete smells like fish to cats. That's why they are always walking on it.
@howkins19926 ай бұрын
Cracking video Tom
@kezzatries6 ай бұрын
Meow😮 never seen such a mixer b4, I like it, wonder if they make a smaller version hmm
@dfross876 ай бұрын
Some areas they have small ones. A mate got one in to concrete the floor for his new shed. Carried enough to mix up to 5 cubic metres, in 0.1 cubic metre increments. Fixed fee + the amount of concrete used.
@ashajplantsupport31246 ай бұрын
Yer we use pan mixer om the farm there a vid of us useing it on my channel we got cat prints on 3 bits of concrete we done aswell
@bostedtap83996 ай бұрын
Do you know what you're doing? not on a Saturday, proper British reply. Very interesting Tom, great job, hopefully 👍 👏 🙏
@suresren6 ай бұрын
I have known people to use sand and gravel dug straight from the ground with a mixture of large stones to small stones for concrete,
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
I have to
@daleireland5 ай бұрын
That’s some of the roughest concrete finishing I’ve ever seen. With just a tad more effort, that could have come up 100% better. Invest in a bull float, a stick trowel & a finishing broom.
@andrewwmitchell6 ай бұрын
The cat stole the show. Hahahah. 😹😹
@davetalton69396 ай бұрын
‘Kin cat!
@keitharmitage30356 ай бұрын
Buy yourself a bull float to use just after pouring. will make floating a lot easier
@daz.j6 ай бұрын
more cat prints everywhere loads of grip lol
@Darklegend6666 ай бұрын
The guy who did our imprint concrete yard reconed the spot mix type trucks didn't get as good a mix as its only mixing in that short auger. However he did order half a cube too much from the normal wagon ! It's very handy to be able to vary the mix as you go though, when we poured our stable slab it was computer controlled and he just tapped the button when i wanted a slightly wetter mix. What do you think, is it "less well mixed" on these spotmix wagons??
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
I’d say possibly not a well mixed but it still does the same job if they were no good nobody would use them
@davidbrown83656 ай бұрын
Next Colin video = he makes a tractor trailer with volumetric mixer (home made) - and mixes all the secret garage concrete himself
@constructiondave6 ай бұрын
Think i'd have had the power-pan on a bit sooner, looked like it was hard to close the surface by that stage. Great video nonetheless 👍🏼
@Tomlamb9806 ай бұрын
That’s what happens when you go for breakfast and stay to long
@grassabrutta5 ай бұрын
Looks very good. Quality and speed. Can you provide your cost breakdown ?
@Tomlamb9805 ай бұрын
I’ve got to work it out
@chrisgosling60836 ай бұрын
a few years ago i was ding a screed job and my mixer died, so i ended up mixing 2m3 of screed by hand and laid it in a day, i did have trouble moving the next day!! never again, i am older and wiser, now i like to work smarter not harder , looking good, lucky you did not end up with a permeant cat statue, so if it goes missing when you do the net pour it may have ended up a permeant addition, i know concrete is suppose to have "body to it but i dont think they cat ones , looking good all ways interesting seen what you are getting up to " 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛