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In our area one yard or less of concrete delivered costs $300. I think I'm getting robbed. as the quantity goes up the price goes down. It bottoms out at about $140/yd. We sometimes do small pads to set granite steps on, and they usually work out to just about a yard. Thats a lot of batches for our small mixer, but I can't bring myself to pay the $300 to get it delivered. How much is too much to mix yourself?

[Stonehenge]

Holy smoke! Around here it's $60-80/yd, plus trucking, which is usually around $70-100.

If we can't mix it in a wheelbarrow, we call in the mixing trucks.

[chesie]

Paid $378 short load charge for 1 yard couple weeks ago.

[Bill Schwab]

Because any concrete in our area is pumped, automatically, the pump fee is $200.00 from the gate. We have short order trucks, single axle Peterbuilts with 4 yard barrels they call Clean Up trucks for when a load runs short. Minimum on those is $350.00, so, you got a $550.00 minimum...Concrete with pumping is a minimum of $125.00 a yard for large loads. And I just got the latest horror reality.....

Drove by a fuel station today...Notice I say drove by....Diesel, $3.78 a gallon. It must have been this station only, but, it is sitting at $2.70 a gallon everywhere else..... Don't think that isn't going to effect the price of concrete next week!

Needless to say, we throw 7 sacks of portland on the dump truck, a yard of sand, and a yard of 3/4" and make our own mud with half the BS.

[PSUscaper]

Yes.....

got a bill from my bulk stone supplier yesterday. on it was a 3% "energy charge".......and the only thing I got this past month from them I picked up myself. There're tacking it on everything now, not just the trucking, I can understand it..........but I don't like it!

[treedoc1]

No mixer needed...
2 sheets of plywood side by side
a couple of flat shovels
start the circular dance
Fast and clean

Don't need to muck up those wheelbarrows trying to get that dry mix out of the corners.

[jwholden]

A family member had 'old school' masons build a significant amount of stone walls on his property. They mixed the mortar right next to the sand pile. A Case 580 scoop of sand, some bags of type 2, mix well, and scoop it up with the machine to get it to where it is needed.

One guy was mixing something like 8-10 yards of mortar this way, in addition to moving some stone as well.

The plywood idea sound a lot neater, wish I used that when I was setting granite slabs last year and belgian block jobs.

I used a mixer for belgian block once and I thought it made the mix too wet.