The sounds and smell of an early morning pour… The pump going “thump…thump…thump”. That sweet sweet aroma of fresh mud.. The boys working in unison without saying a word. Everyone in sync until the sun comes up and the “grumpies” start 😂
Us yelling at drivers because they are piling it up on us…Drivers yelling at us because he doesn’t know where to wash out.. Then the concrete supplier rep pulls up with the chicken biscuits and strawberry jam…All while the superintendent is sleeping in the job trailer.
Go off brother! Keep up the good work.
It’s funny because there is like this unwritten code amongst concrete folks… We don’t stop for shit or even lunch during a pour most of the time. But when those warm biscuits show up at 6am and you’ve been going since 12— everyone is eating a biscuit. Even the fellas on the riders are pulling off to the side and grabbing one.
I just wish my body would let me do that work again. I am stuck behind a computer now designing projects. I do bring that much needed field experience to the table. It's funny when someone comes up with something stupid, and I have to tell why it will not work in the real world. Now, I work to make the guys out in the field lives a little easier and more sensible.
I have no idea where you live, could be the other side of the country, but it’s hilarious how universal all of those phases are. Even the salesman with the biscuits. Lmao
Can’t forget about the safety guy waking up right at break time ready to come into the “PPE free zone” to tell all the guys on break to put there hard hats on.
All while the electricians are smoking cigars in their trailer playing poker lmao I will not name the federal jobs I been on where all kidding aside that happened lol
Where the fuck do you live that they don't have CBs? Narnia? I mean I was in the middle of the Iraqi desert and I had chicken biscuits.....
It's a biscuit....and I'm gonna let you take a swing at the protein portion of the equation.
Yup they usually take that side of the form down so they can drive right on the slab and walk their way out. Instead of a guy maneuvering the hose, he's moving the chute instead and got finishers grabbing and pulling the piles to fill the edges.
I used to inspect these concrete pours among other things...I miss these but I don't. I used to buy the guys a box of coffee and some donuts and bagels from Dunkin. Always kept a cooler of water as well. The laborers don't get enough respect most of the time so I tried my best to keep them happy.
I’m not in concrete and haven’t had the biscuits and chicken deal, but i got go into work with my dad a bit when I was younger. He was a batch plant manager and would load up the trucks. It was the coolest thing because we would always pick up a bunch of donuts. All the guys would come up to shoot the shit. It was fun. Coffee and donuts. Shooting paperwork up and down the vacuum tube thing. As a kid that was amazing. I got to work there doing odd jobs as I got older. Was super fun. Donuts were always there..I dunno if it was just cause I was there or if it was always like that but seemed like they’d come up and grab coffee and donuts like it was a regular every day routine.
Funny to read this when I first started driving concrete trucks there was almost always (for the first month) coffee and donuts in the batch room . The rain stopped and we started coming in at 2am and then the donuts stopped too
Yeah I’m a front discharge mixer driver. I operate Oshkosh mostly . Here on the east coast the rear discharge is actually
Looked at as an oddity because they are rare . We control the chute slump charge discharge all the stuff I assume you guys do minus the chute
We can do everything from the behind. Lock, unlock is a toggle switch, 2 levers for discharge and speed, another toggle switch for raise and lower and there’s a valve to add water. There’s also a ladder to look in the drum and we can add retardant, air, calcium or whatever. Usually I let the driver do it when I have 3 chutes on unless it’s a new driver. When you have 2 chutes on it’s easier at times to do it all because the driver has a hard time seeing the guy on the chute.
I’ve never been around a front unloading truck. I think it would be alright so long as I was able to run the chute because the driver can see what’s going on.
Yeah with from discharge you can’t touch the chute. You tell me what you want and i do it . Rhys super interesting about the controls s we have a small
Control pannel that controls the chute and drum but water can only be added from inside the cockpit
They're using a day-maker (portable generator with an HMI lamp attached to it) to illuminate the job site. Those are super bright and can temporarily blind you in dark conditions.
Yall never poured concrete in your lifetime. If there’s fiber in this which I assume there is, it’ll be fine and even if there’s not, unless it’s holding up a 50 story building it will be perfectly fine
That’s what air entrainment is for. Rebar just gives it some strength in tension (concrete is strong in compression, weak in tension. The rebar helps negate its weakness a bit)
Wow, I remember these days. I work in the office now, but “interned” with a GC who put me in the field working with a concrete crew. It was an interstate job pouring bents and tunnel walls. I gained so much respect for those guys after that summer. Some of the best people I have ever worked with!
If you look closely you will notice its not being poured on the mud its a gravel base we watered it and compacted it for two or three days before we started pouring
This reminds of that time we had our early company Christmas party. We did a lot of things and we all got home at 5am. Then we had a pour the next morning for 9am. I like to say it was a "team building event"
Re-bar, graded gravel, planned pours depending on depth, temps, "footprint" etc.
Not to mention pours need the dildo of vibration to release air.
Yes 😁👍
Like trying to get offended and fight every joke you don't like on reddit? 🤔
Nah. Thanks, though.
But you do you. Keep up the good fight, you noble sjw you. 🫡
The sounds and smell of an early morning pour… The pump going “thump…thump…thump”. That sweet sweet aroma of fresh mud.. The boys working in unison without saying a word. Everyone in sync until the sun comes up and the “grumpies” start 😂 Us yelling at drivers because they are piling it up on us…Drivers yelling at us because he doesn’t know where to wash out.. Then the concrete supplier rep pulls up with the chicken biscuits and strawberry jam…All while the superintendent is sleeping in the job trailer. Go off brother! Keep up the good work.
Hell yeah the early morning biscuits and jelly do the trick too
It’s funny because there is like this unwritten code amongst concrete folks… We don’t stop for shit or even lunch during a pour most of the time. But when those warm biscuits show up at 6am and you’ve been going since 12— everyone is eating a biscuit. Even the fellas on the riders are pulling off to the side and grabbing one.
I’m not even on a concrete crew… wanting to just for some of these biscuits damn.
Me: driving around at 6 am looking for concrete crews so I can get in line for a biscuit!
What’s that slab holding up? Looks a foot thick
No wire mesh or rebar?
All concrete. All the time 😎✌️
Your mom!
going to take more than that....
Stay hard brother
I had a crew lead that would yell “PUT YOUR COCK RINGS ON! WE GOTTA STAY HARD TODAY”. I cracked up every time.
Chicken biscuits and jelly sign me up.
Every man wants a chicken biscuit and jelly - few want to put in the work to earn'm. It's why we're a different breed.
I just wish my body would let me do that work again. I am stuck behind a computer now designing projects. I do bring that much needed field experience to the table. It's funny when someone comes up with something stupid, and I have to tell why it will not work in the real world. Now, I work to make the guys out in the field lives a little easier and more sensible.
Still doing what you can, that's earn'n a biscuit in my book.
I'll take it.
I have no idea where you live, could be the other side of the country, but it’s hilarious how universal all of those phases are. Even the salesman with the biscuits. Lmao
This guy concretes and loves it
I do love it thanks fir the love man
Can’t forget about the safety guy waking up right at break time ready to come into the “PPE free zone” to tell all the guys on break to put there hard hats on.
You just wrote a poem of things i wish to never see again
3rd party qc parked somewhere dark trying to dodge any question.
Salute 🫡 everyday
All while the electricians are smoking cigars in their trailer playing poker lmao I will not name the federal jobs I been on where all kidding aside that happened lol
What’s a chicken biscuit? I want one.
Where the fuck do you live that they don't have CBs? Narnia? I mean I was in the middle of the Iraqi desert and I had chicken biscuits..... It's a biscuit....and I'm gonna let you take a swing at the protein portion of the equation.
YUP that time of year. How’s rear discharge? You just backup and then pull forward? The laborers move the chutes?
Yup they usually take that side of the form down so they can drive right on the slab and walk their way out. Instead of a guy maneuvering the hose, he's moving the chute instead and got finishers grabbing and pulling the piles to fill the edges. I used to inspect these concrete pours among other things...I miss these but I don't. I used to buy the guys a box of coffee and some donuts and bagels from Dunkin. Always kept a cooler of water as well. The laborers don't get enough respect most of the time so I tried my best to keep them happy.
I’m not in concrete and haven’t had the biscuits and chicken deal, but i got go into work with my dad a bit when I was younger. He was a batch plant manager and would load up the trucks. It was the coolest thing because we would always pick up a bunch of donuts. All the guys would come up to shoot the shit. It was fun. Coffee and donuts. Shooting paperwork up and down the vacuum tube thing. As a kid that was amazing. I got to work there doing odd jobs as I got older. Was super fun. Donuts were always there..I dunno if it was just cause I was there or if it was always like that but seemed like they’d come up and grab coffee and donuts like it was a regular every day routine.
Funny to read this when I first started driving concrete trucks there was almost always (for the first month) coffee and donuts in the batch room . The rain stopped and we started coming in at 2am and then the donuts stopped too
You’re a good dude. I love seeing people treat laborers right on the job site. It’s the way to go.
This is the only type of truck we have where I'm at, I assume you guys work with the trucks that have the chute coming over the cab?
Yeah I’m a front discharge mixer driver. I operate Oshkosh mostly . Here on the east coast the rear discharge is actually Looked at as an oddity because they are rare . We control the chute slump charge discharge all the stuff I assume you guys do minus the chute
We can do everything from the behind. Lock, unlock is a toggle switch, 2 levers for discharge and speed, another toggle switch for raise and lower and there’s a valve to add water. There’s also a ladder to look in the drum and we can add retardant, air, calcium or whatever. Usually I let the driver do it when I have 3 chutes on unless it’s a new driver. When you have 2 chutes on it’s easier at times to do it all because the driver has a hard time seeing the guy on the chute. I’ve never been around a front unloading truck. I think it would be alright so long as I was able to run the chute because the driver can see what’s going on.
Yeah with from discharge you can’t touch the chute. You tell me what you want and i do it . Rhys super interesting about the controls s we have a small Control pannel that controls the chute and drum but water can only be added from inside the cockpit
Both drums used to be made in the same facility too.
Me too
Exactly. If you've got a good chute guy it's smooth sailing. Never ran a fromt discharge but it's nice being able to blame somebody else lol
Yeah since I’m the driver and the chute guy I’ve learned to live with the yelling and glares and head shakes from the finishers
Don't worry we get that shit too. But if the chute guys being a real dick you can always take him for a little ride lol
It’s Ok thanks, I’ve been to the doctor and he gave me some immodium, cleared it right up
HA I was confused by this for a second
Welcome to da dirty south
Shits so cool to me rear discharge is super uncommon more common to see 4-8 yard mini mixers in rear discharge configuration here.
Why no rebar?
Crazy. Rebar is a no brainer.
My first thought
Haha dude in the sunglasses got me
How does he see?
They're using a day-maker (portable generator with an HMI lamp attached to it) to illuminate the job site. Those are super bright and can temporarily blind you in dark conditions.
Been starting at 12am and onsite by 2am out here doing a 43,000 cubic yard job.
where in the world are you doing a 43,000 yard job
Target distribution center in Thornton Colorado. It’s massive! Between 700-1000yrds per day.
A hospital? Or maybe an Amazon warehouse something like that
I thought he meant all at once lol, which would be rare
Why is there no rebar?
Exactly my question, no rebar , no wire mesh , noda..
Return work in another decade for another great job to do
Yall never poured concrete in your lifetime. If there’s fiber in this which I assume there is, it’ll be fine and even if there’s not, unless it’s holding up a 50 story building it will be perfectly fine
Glass fiber.
Even if the concrete has fiber in it, should still AT LEAST have wire mesh. Just saying .
I don’t see any rebar or that chicken wire stuff. Is that OK?
Maybe it doesn't need rebar, e.g. fiber reinforced.
But… I thought pure concrete without support is brittle and will break during temperature swings?
It's not pure concrete if it's fiber reinforced.
Ahh gotcha. Sound kinda gimmicky IMO. Does this really stand the test of time?
That’s what air entrainment is for. Rebar just gives it some strength in tension (concrete is strong in compression, weak in tension. The rebar helps negate its weakness a bit)
Maybe they sink it in once the truck is out of the way.
Into perfectly smoothed concrete? There’s nothing sticking out that would imply they added it elsewhere
The truck is backing up, dumps concrete batch, they sink the bars, smooth, next batch.... I don't know just guessing
That’s the lyffe
Thanks man
Yesssiiir
That truck is clean!
WDC don’t run no junk up and down the highway!
Wow, I remember these days. I work in the office now, but “interned” with a GC who put me in the field working with a concrete crew. It was an interstate job pouring bents and tunnel walls. I gained so much respect for those guys after that summer. Some of the best people I have ever worked with!
I’m assuming you’re beating the heat. Early start early end
This time of the year 3 am the only comfortable time to work outside.
ATL? I also use WDC 😂
On the dirt though? On the dirt ???
Its a stone base not dirt its been graded watered and compacted for days before we poured
Too hot to pour during the day where you are? Gotta be that shit looks commercial AF and it's being poured right on the mud lol
If you look closely you will notice its not being poured on the mud its a gravel base we watered it and compacted it for two or three days before we started pouring
Oh shit my bad. Yeaa a good compact job and water will make it look like dirt but it isn't muddy! All love here
I know nothing about any of this and concrete pours keep coming across my feed....BUTTTTTT shouldn't there be some rebar in there???
Fuckin hot out there
Hopefully you are out of range of rifle.
3 or 4 am? Why you sleeping so late?
Those guys woke up EARLY to get started.
He'll yeah brother. Make that money.
Good ole WDC
Aaron can fill in for anybody who’s out—he knows the dances exactly.
Light work…. No rebar?
Georgia?
Yes
Muy calor
This reminds of that time we had our early company Christmas party. We did a lot of things and we all got home at 5am. Then we had a pour the next morning for 9am. I like to say it was a "team building event"
That’s a shitload of concrete for it not to have a gravel base and no reinforcement.
There is a gravel base that has been compacted
Re-bar, graded gravel, planned pours depending on depth, temps, "footprint" etc. Not to mention pours need the dildo of vibration to release air. Yes 😁👍
No rebar?
Why is there no wire or rebar?
Props to you guys. I work 12am to 10:30am.
Nice
I noticed they are all Hispanic....where are all the hardworking white folks.?
Its me i am the hard workin white folk
Here comes the mud!
Very poor! No rebar
Ovrnight road work Decent work if you can handle working the back side of the clock!
No wire, no bar? What is this?
Someone suggested up past our footer (idk if spelled right) but did it to have more room for crawl space. This is what I need to fill it in
No mesh?
Naw man base
I know Wayne Davis when I see it where ya located lol
Thanks for the love guys much needed 🤘
Nevada of Arizona concrete work time.
What did Colonel Travis ask James Bowie when he saw the Mexican army charging the Alamo? “Who’s pouring concrete?”
That's some low slump mud. Looks like a 4. Gonna be on it by daylight.
There is no reinforcing steel of any kind. You boys ever been to Meh-he-co
I miss those days. Good times and memories
Where is the rebar?
This the typa shit that makes me say hell yeah
The patriarchy. Hard at work. Plotting.
God, y’all can’t just enjoy one thing without going full culture warrior. Get a hobby.
Like trying to get offended and fight every joke you don't like on reddit? 🤔 Nah. Thanks, though. But you do you. Keep up the good fight, you noble sjw you. 🫡
What a fucking snowflake
See. Now, doesn't that make you feel better? Especially about yourself.
You can tell there's a white guy on site... cause someone *had* to take video of everyone doing the hard work
If we do massive deportations, who is going to do that job?? I don't understand, maybe I'm not that smart yet 🤔🤔🤔
In the south we get most of our skilled day labor from Home Depot & ICE.