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.
More fool you for not locking the cat away after the first lot of footprints.
@HightowerLSSD
3 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!
@johnwarwick4105
3 ай бұрын
Always find cat prints in concrete even if you don’t have a cat 😂😂.
@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb
3 ай бұрын
Fantastic solution. If only we all had buddies with Volumetric Concrete Mixers...
@cleanmachine08
3 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.
@markedwards158
3 ай бұрын
Every KZitemr needs a mascot, for Tom its a cat. A new star has been born. 🐈 ❤
@robertallen3441
3 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.😃
@lemmy9996
3 ай бұрын
ABC Concrete, as seen on the Colin Furze underground garage video!!👍👍
@charlypeters2615
3 ай бұрын
Thats a secret, don't tell everyone 🤣
@matthewfoster6620
3 ай бұрын
Every pour we've done has had either the cat or bloody pigeons walk through it! Adds to the character....
@lukekelchner5471
3 ай бұрын
Thanks as always for including us Tom!
@jakobrebeki
3 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....
@jamesedwards1166
3 ай бұрын
Cat had me cracking up 😂
@belfalas40
3 ай бұрын
My cat's called Emily (among other names), and that's the sort of shit she'd pull... Great vid, thanks Tom!
@blackpoolrox6475
2 ай бұрын
Used one of these set ups by a company on the Fylde coast. Superb!! Efficient, no fuss, no mess cost effective!
@davidabbott3927
3 ай бұрын
Well done Tom . Very smart . You have a great future x
@PK_Blinder
3 ай бұрын
You just knew the cat had to be in on the act... 😂😂
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
I never see it until the concrete comes
@Derf1313
3 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 !
@andythorne1261
3 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,
@padgemoments
3 ай бұрын
Nice job Tom!
@onlygazza
3 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 😊
@azharc123
3 ай бұрын
Looks very nice Tom.
@charlotteashleyfarm
3 ай бұрын
I’m glad it’s not just our cat that does that 🙈😂xx
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
It’s been a nightmare
@---l---
3 ай бұрын
Those are some good mates
@Reed6510
3 ай бұрын
Nice Job 👍
@claretbuck1882
3 ай бұрын
Top job bud 👍🏻
@oldbloke100
3 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.
@richardcanning7351
3 ай бұрын
Great job Tom. I think you need to lock the cat up every time you are concreting. 😂
@stco2426
3 ай бұрын
Dunno. It seems to make better foor prints in the mud than he does. 😗
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
I forgot about it
@richardcanning7351
3 ай бұрын
@@stco2426 😂
@mendovato
3 ай бұрын
A cat brings a man down to his knees😂
@lurchie
3 ай бұрын
The cat prints give the concrete a artistic flair!
@jdmowers
3 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
@deedoor30
3 ай бұрын
Getting Trolled by the cat. Priceless.
@colhonk2916
3 ай бұрын
Clever stuff.
@howkins1992
3 ай бұрын
Cracking video Tom
@HughzieTube
3 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
@Juzzy520
3 ай бұрын
Well done mate!!🍺💪💪👍
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Thanks 👍
@noisytim
3 ай бұрын
The shoeprint is a great idea, lol :D
@OutofTownwithRobinBell
3 ай бұрын
good job!
@welsty2003
3 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
@markbusby9709
3 ай бұрын
Good effort Tom, concreting in volume not easy, especially if you are looking for a power float finish, always fighting time & weather 👍
@tommyobrien9480
2 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
@Tomlamb980
2 ай бұрын
It saved me over half
@tommyobrien9480
2 ай бұрын
@@Tomlamb980 I think you are not doing your costing right.
@markbriggs6786
3 ай бұрын
Used this company on my house build very good 👍
@roberthiggins6401
3 ай бұрын
Nice concrete Tom! Bloody cat!
@Lorddanielrushton371
3 ай бұрын
Great contraption. I wish we had those here in the States. I buy quick create here, but I only use small amounts.
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Maybe one day!
@houseofgill
3 ай бұрын
Great video. Laughing so hard at the cat
@edwardhammock24
3 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.
@euan7310
3 ай бұрын
Waiting on the bird prints next 😂😂
@philipwood123
3 ай бұрын
The cat is the star. Made me LOL
@thelightofficial666
3 ай бұрын
For a lamb you are very competent. When you become a full blown sheep god help us
@ronarant2897
3 ай бұрын
Tom the cat was just following your lead by leaving her paw prints!
@stevenwright6869
3 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🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
@The-Mighty-Orange
3 ай бұрын
I would have to mix all that with a shovel, and a belle mixer, I'm old school 😂
@Monkeysic
3 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!
@GRUBB-MUDD
3 ай бұрын
Nce job from America
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Thanks
@schmails
3 ай бұрын
Tom Lamb. He's a Farmer.... and cat strangler. 🙂. Looks Great! Thumbs up to ABC Concrete! (but I'm in The States).
@stuffbyneilsmith
3 ай бұрын
Love how the cat paw prints annoyed you but you still had to write your name in it 😂
@eriklindh4339
3 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 👍
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Handy to know
@amonynous9041
3 ай бұрын
LOL, the cat. ♥
@buzzkillington3354
3 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
@callumkendall5100
3 ай бұрын
Use both volumetric and barrel mixers depending on the size of the job. Where are you getting the cement from in bulk?
@icecorner87
3 ай бұрын
NIIIIIIIIIIICE
@peterclarke3300
3 ай бұрын
I thought you might do a Olly and have a feed mixer Tom 🤦♂️👏👏👍👍
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Next time!
@zombiehoggy3701
2 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.
@trevorsidley7697
3 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.
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
I know
@LBguru74
3 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.
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Thanks
@Jim-Scott
3 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.
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Re tieing strings is the worst in a field of hard stubble
@concernedcitizen3163
3 ай бұрын
@b980 its at least 30 or more years since i baled rape straw. still have the gouges out of me back .
@FatLadofYork
3 ай бұрын
We have an old volumetric mixer on an old drag trailer chassis & pto driven off a fastrac.
@scrotiemcboogerballs4967
3 ай бұрын
Amazing. Us it mixed enough in the short period of time?
@qshed
3 ай бұрын
We built our extension 12 years ago used volumetric for the footings. Driver was great looking in the trench yep you need 6.5 cube. He was bang on. Was it Ketton cement by any chance Mr Tom
@kezzatries
3 ай бұрын
Meow😮 never seen such a mixer b4, I like it, wonder if they make a smaller version hmm
@dfross87
3 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.
@GFSwinger1693
3 ай бұрын
Gangsta cat!
@dfross87
3 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 🤯).
@buddysinsight9834
3 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.
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
I’ve got one but we were just being lazy
@stco2426
3 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).
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
I’d like to use fibres as usually do but didn’t have any on this occasion
@andrewwmitchell
3 ай бұрын
The cat stole the show. Hahahah. 😹😹
@scrapgoduk
3 ай бұрын
For a moment you thought about winging the screwdriver, would of made a worst mess. haha
@timcoombe7880
3 ай бұрын
Cats gotta cat!
@jamesmitchell755
2 ай бұрын
Very interesting video. How much did the materials cost per cube?
@peterthomas120
2 ай бұрын
Don't blame you tom save money where you can
@bostedtap8399
3 ай бұрын
Do you know what you're doing? not on a Saturday, proper British reply. Very interesting Tom, great job, hopefully 👍 👏 🙏
@ashajplantsupport3124
3 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
@jamesi.fraser459
3 ай бұрын
That truck is quite the machine, not like hat here in Eastern Canada 🇨🇦 .
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
What do you use
@jamesi.fraser459
3 ай бұрын
@@Tomlamb980 Eastern Canada mainly three axle pre mix drum style dispensing trucks. 8-10 +cu. yard loads
@TheRealInscrutable
3 ай бұрын
For texture try a roller covered in cat paw prints. More cat!
@ciaranconeely8579
3 ай бұрын
👍👍👍.
@Piglife101
3 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
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
First I’ve heard of it
@markfryer9880
3 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 🇦🇺
@PiezPiedPy
3 ай бұрын
He needs to add a bog brush to that piece of kit ;)
@DEADB33F
3 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.
@briangadsby6653
3 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
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Yer it’s coming down in price it was 155
@Farming-Technology
3 ай бұрын
That's a good price.
@AndyCallaway
3 ай бұрын
Lol. That cat.
@ryanlotgd
3 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
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Bloody things
@bruce-le-smith
3 ай бұрын
Great stuff thanks! In Montreal some of the old buildings have cat prints in the bricks, because the cats would get into the brickyards where things were not yet dry. It's kind of fun looking for them as you walk about. I bet there must be similar bricks in the UK haha. Did this approach actually save you a significant percent on the cost?
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Im going to work it out but actually half
@Darklegend666
3 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??
@Tomlamb980
3 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
@mrkev2591
3 ай бұрын
Love this video!! Curious on the cost per cubic meter. Here in the states (Midwest) it costs around $130 USD per yard.
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Usually it’s about £150 per cube
@adrianchetwynd1334
3 ай бұрын
A cubic metre is 1.308 cubic yards, so £150 per cubic metre is about £115 per cubic yard.
@br6768
3 ай бұрын
That machine sounds like a Willy Wonka factory.. I was expecting everlasting gobstoppers to start rolling out the other end lol
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Your right
@grassabrutta
3 ай бұрын
Looks very good. Quality and speed. Can you provide your cost breakdown ?
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
I’ve got to work it out
@SuperRon
3 ай бұрын
The cat 😂
@davetalton6939
3 ай бұрын
‘Kin cat!
@BLuNTEDR
3 ай бұрын
Lovely job Tom, the cat was lucky! What would it cost in the UK for a concrete pad like that, without your hard work of course. Rough price?
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
Usually about £150 per cube
@danielrust8001
3 ай бұрын
U need a Keenan feeder like olly blogs 😂😂
@MichaelCollins-tt8wv
3 ай бұрын
Great video Tom, how much better value per cube is it vs buying from the local concrete supplier?
@Tomlamb980
3 ай бұрын
I’d say half price
@2305macleod
3 ай бұрын
Concrete smells like fish to cats. That's why they are always walking on it.
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