I agree. You got a great deal. Not only does he expose himself to health hazards and hearing loss. He provided a special service. He should raise his price
Never take a job working in confined spaces unless it's paying a shit ton more than everything else. People underestimate how quickly even benign looking confined spaces can kill you under the wrong circumstances.
@@RagingDong driving isn’t as dangerous than working in a cement truck , I see what you mean but I’m just saying in general why take a dangerous ass job just because it pays a lot , your life should be priceless to you not put it on the line for a pay , I guess you can argue how many fatal crashes there are yes so I do see what you mean
It's definitely a steal. 30mins is the time of job, but set up time, travel to get there and leave again. Maintenance on his equipment... should've charged so much more
@@jsandiego2394 there are giant corkscrew fins inside the drums to push the concrete out or pull it in as the drum spins. The drums on most mixers will spin way faster than you've even seen. Concrete can also fall off the top of the drum while you are in there which is extremely dangerous.
@@jonathonfrederick2062 I worked as a mechanic for a concrete company and part of my job was cleaning drums on the mixers. I've had concrete fall off the top and land on me while inside. Also if you chip too much and don't climb out and spin it out, it can get stuck in the fins causing a huge imbalance. So if you spin it full speed trying to throw it out you can wind up with a mixer on its side. Obviously I would hope any of the drivers I worked with wouldn't try and spit me out the back while I was in there. I'm just saying there is a lot more too it than most people would think, and if you are not careful, you may wind up getting hurt pretty seriously.
@@jsandiego2394 pov your reading a comment from someone who Is confidently incorrect despite having never gone inside one of these before. Industry standard rates exist for a reason. In most cases If you don’t think something is worth what it costs then you’re not being ripped off, you just don’t understand what all it entails.
$150?? Dang he’s not making anything. That’s $500 right there easy. That’s a dangerous job. Hazardous conditions. Loud equipment. Dust. And the only guy that can help you out. $150 is a steal
I agree $150 bucks is really only $100 at best. Gas and taxes. I wouldn’t do it for less than 5. But hey I’m a self employed plumber, we’re known for being expensive lol.
As a former mixer driver this is important because you need your fins clean to pour stiff concrete. Say a 2” slump to pour behind fire hydrants before they pressurize the system. 150 dollars is a good deal.
You need a clean truck and fins to discharge low slump concrete into a slip form paver. I’ve sprayed the fins of a lot of dirty mixers just to get concrete to discharge.
Dude that chipper must be a buddy, I wouldn’t take that job for less than $400. Besides it being dang dangerous, work conditions suck in there. Bare minimum in my area is $400 so he must be a good bud of yours.
My dad used to do this. He had a heart attack while he was inside chipping. He's still around but ever since then he's not able to do anything like he used to
@@freeaudiobooks7469 at what point did the guy say when the heart attack was dude? Strange to just randomly say completely off topic things. I hope you recover completely from that stroke you were obviously having while typing that. Pure blood though here myself lol
After every 2 to 3 hauls if you really spray after. And depends if your hauling the same mixture or not after being fully filled. The cement cant sit long if not tumbled cause if its solidifies while its full, you basicaly need a new truck. (This is what i know, may not be completely correct but thought i would give my input)
It’s a confined space entry! Annual training and certifications are required. When things go wrong, it is normally a body recovery, not a rescue. Back in the day, the driver had to climb in and chip it out, because it was his mess. He failed to adhere to the instructions. Don’t let the cement set up in the mixer and add water after the off load, and rotate the drum until you can get to the a dumping site.
Thanks,man...I was gonna say all that myself,but you already did. Seriously-Water. It's amazing...What's wrong with people? I learned all that-Spraying water in the drum,WHILE ROTATING,to clean it out-While at my first full-time job,doing concrete foundations...37 years ago. When I was FOURTEEN. (1986) The mixer drivers would do it right onsite,so it would all just get buried anyway. It wouldn't have a chance to dry at all. The trucks had their own water tanks and hoses. I thought they ALL did. If a 14 year old kid knew this,close to 40 years ago,no one has any excuse now.
"During the fifth season of “Dirty Jobs,” episode 20 found Mike rolling up his sleeves to try his hand at chipping concrete. And, as he soon learned, the work is no walk in the park. In fact, when asked to pick the all-time dirtiest jobs out of the hundreds he tried out on air, he placed concrete chipping front and center." Personally, I would double up on hearing protection, and have a positive pressure respirator. That positive pressure respirator would stay on until all the dust is blown off my clothing.
He can always just buy one rather spend 300 then pay 150 each morning and each clock out but this is why we need men like him who think out side the box
After you get the complete barrel, nice and chipped out, you should spray it with a mix of diesel and hydraulic fluid so that the concrete won’t stick to the walls anymore. You could also do this method for your schute as well. I am a concrete pumper and I see a couple of the readymix drivers doing this and they have some of the cleanest trucks out there and also the oldest trucks of the fleet.
I used to have to do that to weld new fins in drums. I was a mechanic for a concrete company. The fins would get so wore out they would fall off. I had low seniority and it was my job to replace them. Had to chip the concrete out to do that.
I once saw an old timer win a bet doing that. All of the youngsters were betting that they could clean the inside of the truck faster than everyone else. He's like 70 years old steps up and said I'll beat all you kids. So he waited until all of them got finished, and then he went into his little shack gotta have a 1/2 stick of dynamite duct taped it to the middle of the inside of that concrete mixer drum. Light a long fiews and let it go off. It didn't damage the truck, but it knocked loose every piece of concrete in there. Everything else works fine he just cranked the truck up, rotated the drum, a bit poured out all the chips, and he was done. The whole thing took less than 10 minutes.
@@robfrmny21 you are correct, it's impossible to not breathe in some of it some way. If you are around it everyday idc what mask you are wearing you are going to breathe some in and you are going to carry it with u wherever you go and cake it up in your truck, washing machine, etc etc. I just did a job with asbestos and we had to take extreme precautions and I know we still breathed some in
@@Dane-bootsNcatsN those masks only block 95 percent of the particulates. The other 5 percent are like nano particles which over time can build up in your lungs. I used to grind cinder block walls smooth after bathroom tiles were knocked off and I could run my finger inside the same respirator he has, and would have dust on my fingers. I would wet a rag and put it over the filters. It'd be hard to breathe but was worth it
That truck was immaculate. You can't help build up unless you wash it out after every load. Buildup is gonna happen since you can't wash the back of the blades after every load. Though 150 did seem cheap to me. He must have had a bunch to do?
You always think you have the worse job, that the pumper or chipper have better jobs, you have air conditioning, you sit your whole shift, this guy is going places you probably never will.
You’ll find 100 trucks to work as a chipper at the same location…..while you only find 2 toilets at different locations 😂 with the plumbers being so cheap now 😂
Too cheap. I know it sounds like a lot at $150, but after overhead is figured in and labor, few companies will only charge $150 to pull and set a toilet... And most of those are uninsured handy Andys
@@charliedecker7702 The lie is that using a chipping hammer will necessarily cause it. Its very rare and only occurs in people susceptible to it. I've been regularly using chipping hammers for 25 years. No problems whatsoever.
My dad did this as a teenager in MS during the summers. He said it was BRUTAL and Sooo hot it would make you almost faint in a short time. He said it was BEYOND deafening and even good (hardly existed) ear protection back then didn't completely help.
Not sure how long it takes for build up to occur but I'm pretty sure your supposed to power spray out the mixer drum after a haul or before parking the truck for the end of work week.
Washing out from the top can only get so much of it out. There's always going to be some that stays stuck in the corners no matter how much spraying and spinning you do. Chipping is part of the deal. What's really hell is when there's a major breakdown and they aren't able to get the load off, leaving 10 yds of set concrete in the drum. Old school drivers still carry bags of various things meant to ruin the concrete that they throw in if everything goes to hell so it doesn't harden as it sets up.
You could suffocate, inhale so much dust it kills you, or your eyes could get messed up, you could get heat stroke, it could start rotating again randomly and break bones, chunks of concrete could smack your brain, they might even drive off or fill it with liquid concrete WCS. Enclosed spaces are terrifying even if they seem innoccuous to an untrained person. I welcome you to try it out if you think it'll be easy work
Never happened to mine. Contractors required to have washouts and if they didn't we had little pop up washouts we carried. Always dumped the rest of my water in the tank when done at job after washing out. Our plants all had water pits to dump into. Only time I had build up is when someone else drove my truck a day I was gone.
But if you rinsed out the barrel there is even less debris,I used to put rolled river rock about 5x8 rocks and drive it engage the barrel and walk the rocks out and the concrete
I started making my guys do that so they learned to clean them better after each load ! To say the least a couple learned the others I guess like chilling lol
$150 seems like a great price to me.. He definitely could've charged more for the convenience. Most people do so be happy with that low price. If you don't like it, do it yourself.
Work like this is not for Lazy people.There are people that ask for a job and then pray not to get it.A work man like me can do 4 trucks a day.Thats when you were born from a real Woman,, when real Man were being made.
Brings back memories. Not a fan of mixers. Or delivering concrete. Especially not a fan of the tedious yet demanding job of keeping your drum fins clean. It's literally not possible to clean the back of the fins from outside the truck.
My father used to have my brother and I do that every summer... My father owns a cement company and he used to take my brother and I during the summer and we used to have to chip away at all the cement trucks during the summer at the height of it... He used to buy us ice cream when we were done....never got paid...
@@okeefer2000 Bullshit. Their father was an asshole. To have kids-YOUR OWN KIDS- Doing something that potentially dangerous? That's bordering on child abuse.
@@randomjunk1984 very impressive. 150 x 2 is indeed 300. But what's your point? This guy paid 150 and it took the guy 30 min. The commenter says if his guy did the job it would have been 300 since it was a min charge for less than one hour. So his guy would charge 300 so he says that the 150 the video guy paid was cheap. ...and it was. Half price. But why do you feel the need to specify that 150 x 2 = 300. ? Did you miss something ?
@@invictusbp1prop143 you know what's not very impressive? You coming on here acting all erroneous and insulting, yet you can't grasp the fact that he said that $150 for a half hour is cheap and then said he has a guy who charges $250 an hour. Pay attention now buddy, here's where the math comes into play: since 2x150=300. His guy in Houston charges $250 with a $300 minimum charge. Are you still with me? Since $300>$250 this guy's rate is higher. Do you get it now, or do I have to draw you a picture? Edited for typo*
Put in a yard or two of jagged crush with about 100 gallons or so of water. Start the drum spinning on mix, run for a couple hours. Drum is clean and you now have a couple yards of tumble, or round pea gravel.
It costs about 9,000 dollars to chip one out with a full load of concrete inside. Ive seen it happen more than once. You only have about an hour and a half to get it off if its not agitated. We often take another truck and use its drum drive to spin the broken trucks drum to get sugar mixed in. Dont always make it in time though.
I did this the summer of 1978 before I started college, Uvalde construction company off motor street in Dallas… terrible job but paid well. RIP to my boss way way back then John Redman
It's a tough job, doubt it's easy to find a comfortable position to work in and you know, 150 ain't a lot. For a 30 min job, that dude's great. You're on the road quicker and he has the skills to pull in money while not bleeding the customer
I had operated a mixture in Houston back in the late seventies and we never had a issue with buildup. The Cure would be to have plenty of water for a rinse and make sure the workers don't use up all your water.
$150 for 30 minutes of operating a jackhammer *inside* the drum of a concrete mixer. At least half of that was hazard pay and having had both some close-space training and having seen/heard what happens to people who enter those spaces unprepared, I’d say he absolutely earned every cent.
Years ago I worked as a delivery driver for a concrete company to pay for college. We had a 9 yard rear load Diamond Reo truck that was near full sitting at a stop light on First Street down by the Ohio river when the 120 year old 10 foot brick sewer collapsed under it. It sank down until only the chute was visible. Needless to say, the concrete in the drum set up solid by the time they got it out and towed back to the yard. We removed the drum and the driver had to go in with the chipping gun to remove almost nine yards of concrete. He was still working on it when I had to go back to the university. As far as I know, they still have the newspaper clipping of it up on the wall in the dispatchers office.
So I'm supposed to believe that the truck sank it wasn't at a angle like front end of the truck up in the air In that case a whole lot of concrete would have spelled out so how did you chip out 9 yd and any company that pulls a barrel off and has somebody chip it is not a real company you take the barrel off and throw it out
Imagine being on the inside of a Drum and then imagine being on in the inside of a Bell. Now add the two together and multiply it by (8x6) and you get ONE NOISY JOB!!!!!!
This is a hazardous job think about it all the air particles contaminated Go back in twenty years and see how this guys respiratory is or if some idiot turns on this truck and starts this mixer
Confined space permit? Respirator air line? Lock & tag out? Lookout? I used to go into chemical reactors, and sometimes dynamite had to be used if it went bad.
If you're that worried about 150 .. get in and do it yourself .. I hate people like that.. he wasn't charging by the hour.. say if it took him longer he probably charge the same..
Well you let it get hard inside the truck so you got to pay somebody to get it out if it's not you getting in there and getting it out then you realize how much that's really worth... Hardened concrete is not something easy to get out of a truck...
@@daevid21 not an office but my days of busting knuckles are a memory of life itself. Went from delivering pizzas to being the guy that tips his drivers $10. My lungs are messed up from mowing 130houses a week for eight years.
I've worked in heavy machinery and metal manufacturing and those gloves save fingers more than any other safety ever put in place. they are made of Kevlar and are so tough you can't possibly imagine.
@@Silk_OG I personally have never needed such a tough pair of gloves but I’m sure you can agree when I say less is more sometimes. When your gloves have inches of room in the fingers left to fill, doesn’t it seem counter productive? I do & working heavy machinery I’m sure a fitted well ventilated durable glove sufficed. Right too for every job I guess is what I’m trying to say
Tools $5k energy $1k work $25 transportation $30. It is higher than average cost, but yes, lucrative business, and no one wants to do it, but it always is needed. I think this is a great idea.
"I'm in the wrong business" what every business owner says when they pay for a service. 😂
Exactly. Just get your own tools and do it yourself. Easy, init?
PERFECTLY SAID!!!!
They complain when paying for a service that They Need AND Get upset when a client questions their prices!!
Lol
@@knowyourrights9793 Every time!
If that was my truck I would of been doing it my self after seeing him do it the first time around,
I would definitely have to have the keys in my pocket.
@ffhgu 07 best practice, but my paranoid ass would also disconnect the battery
Yup
it will just spit you out the back, you'll be fine.
Ong i would 😂
Yeah!!!
ALL THE KEYS!!!!
I agree. You got a great deal. Not only does he expose himself to health hazards and hearing loss. He provided a special service. He should raise his price
I was thinking the same thing. I don't think he charges enough
i know i wouldn't want to crawl in there. he didnt even use the side hatch
Never take a job working in confined spaces unless it's paying a shit ton more than everything else. People underestimate how quickly even benign looking confined spaces can kill you under the wrong circumstances.
Why is any amount of money worth your life
@@ltsjoeyy because you need money to survive you dummy
@@ltsjoeyy It's not that's why you have to be smart about it. But if there is a job that needs doing, someone will do it for the right money.
@@ltsjoeyy You drive to work everyday?
A lot of people die driving to work, but you still do it
@@RagingDong driving isn’t as dangerous than working in a cement truck , I see what you mean but I’m just saying in general why take a dangerous ass job just because it pays a lot , your life should be priceless to you not put it on the line for a pay , I guess you can argue how many fatal crashes there are yes so I do see what you mean
bro deserves like a thousand
150 bucks is an absolute steal👌 your not paying for his time your paying for his willingness and experience, that's why it only took a half hour🤙
It's definitely a steal. 30mins is the time of job, but set up time, travel to get there and leave again. Maintenance on his equipment... should've charged so much more
Yup that's a $300 job MINIMUM. He robbed that man at $150...
I wouldve charged atleast 400
He will need that money to buy hearing aids when he goes deaf from all that noise
@@andrewferguson8032 so wear ear protection then?
He only charged $150? Climbing into one of these things is dangerous. He earned that $150 fair and square.
How is this dangerous? You spin at 0.4 mph... That's ALL that that does.... You wouldn't even get dizzy
@@jsandiego2394 there are giant corkscrew fins inside the drums to push the concrete out or pull it in as the drum spins. The drums on most mixers will spin way faster than you've even seen. Concrete can also fall off the top of the drum while you are in there which is extremely dangerous.
@@evandrewmartinez1 oops I accidently turned on the truck and got it spinning full speed before the guy got out, happens all the time
@@jonathonfrederick2062 I worked as a mechanic for a concrete company and part of my job was cleaning drums on the mixers. I've had concrete fall off the top and land on me while inside. Also if you chip too much and don't climb out and spin it out, it can get stuck in the fins causing a huge imbalance. So if you spin it full speed trying to throw it out you can wind up with a mixer on its side. Obviously I would hope any of the drivers I worked with wouldn't try and spit me out the back while I was in there. I'm just saying there is a lot more too it than most people would think, and if you are not careful, you may wind up getting hurt pretty seriously.
@@jsandiego2394 pov your reading a comment from someone who Is confidently incorrect despite having never gone inside one of these before.
Industry standard rates exist for a reason. In most cases If you don’t think something is worth what it costs then you’re not being ripped off, you just don’t understand what all it entails.
$150?? Dang he’s not making anything. That’s $500 right there easy. That’s a dangerous job. Hazardous conditions. Loud equipment. Dust. And the only guy that can help you out. $150 is a steal
Agreed
I agree $150 bucks is really only $100 at best. Gas and taxes. I wouldn’t do it for less than 5. But hey I’m a self employed plumber, we’re known for being expensive lol.
You say this but know dam well you’d lowball him the moment he tells you 500$.
I guess it would be more but he only finished in 30 min
@@simorebuths7301 or you, the owner, could do it yourself
As a former mixer driver this is important because you need your fins clean to pour stiff concrete. Say a 2” slump to pour behind fire hydrants before they pressurize the system. 150 dollars is a good deal.
You need a clean truck and fins to discharge low slump concrete into a slip form paver. I’ve sprayed the fins of a lot of dirty mixers just to get concrete to discharge.
Dude that chipper must be a buddy, I wouldn’t take that job for less than $400. Besides it being dang dangerous, work conditions suck in there. Bare minimum in my area is $400 so he must be a good bud of yours.
He should’ve charged at least $300 you got off easy ❤😂🎉
My dad used to do this. He had a heart attack while he was inside chipping. He's still around but ever since then he's not able to do anything like he used to
Vaccine damage
@@freeaudiobooks7469 lol keep coping weirdo, keep your garbage narratives and conspiracies to yourself
Radiation from Fukushima multiple meltdowns, causes heart problems!
When did he have the heart attack?
@@freeaudiobooks7469 at what point did the guy say when the heart attack was dude? Strange to just randomly say completely off topic things. I hope you recover completely from that stroke you were obviously having while typing that. Pure blood though here myself lol
where I live that is 500 to $1,000 depending on how much is in the tank. and how long it takes to get it done. you lucked out with that guy.
Where I live they probably make the driver or the pourers do it in his unpaid overtime
I didn’t even know this was a thing. How often does it need done?
@@nofurtherwest3474maybe once a year? Just guessing by what he said.
After every 2 to 3 hauls if you really spray after. And depends if your hauling the same mixture or not after being fully filled. The cement cant sit long if not tumbled cause if its solidifies while its full, you basicaly need a new truck. (This is what i know, may not be completely correct but thought i would give my input)
@@nofurtherwest3474Like once or twice a year depending on how well the driver washes out and sprays after each load.
It’s a confined space entry! Annual training and certifications are required. When things go wrong, it is normally a body recovery, not a rescue. Back in the day, the driver had to climb in and chip it out, because it was his mess. He failed to adhere to the instructions. Don’t let the cement set up in the mixer and add water after the off load, and rotate the drum until you can get to the a dumping site.
Thanks,man...I was gonna say all that myself,but you already did.
Seriously-Water. It's amazing...What's wrong with people?
I learned all that-Spraying water in the drum,WHILE ROTATING,to clean it out-While at my first full-time job,doing concrete foundations...37 years ago. When I was FOURTEEN. (1986) The mixer drivers would do it right onsite,so it would all just get buried anyway. It wouldn't have a chance to dry at all. The trucks had their own water tanks and hoses. I thought they ALL did.
If a 14 year old kid knew this,close to 40 years ago,no one has any excuse now.
Amen we had to come in on Saturday Chipotle on drums and check out our own drums
That's why you leave enough water in your tank to clean out your drum so you don't have to chip ship it out
"During the fifth season of “Dirty Jobs,” episode 20 found Mike rolling up his sleeves to try his hand at chipping concrete. And, as he soon learned, the work is no walk in the park. In fact, when asked to pick the all-time dirtiest jobs out of the hundreds he tried out on air, he placed concrete chipping front and center."
Personally, I would double up on hearing protection, and have a positive pressure respirator. That positive pressure respirator would stay on until all the dust is blown off my clothing.
100%. Silica dust is no joke. It's basically the "asbestos" of our day.
🫡👌🏿👍🏿
@@nickbesserer basically does the same thing as asbestos yup 👍
Black lung is no joke.
Yeah I remember my widows got blown out they blew the truck apart in a lil mine by angels camp Carson hill
If you don't like spending $150 to stay in business you can always go home and clean your rig with a toothbrush.
He never said he didn't
@@jamesdukes597 he never said he did
He can always just buy one rather spend 300 then pay 150 each morning and each clock out but this is why we need men like him who think out side the box
😂
I get what you're saying but why the hell would he use a toothbrush lol
Inside the drum braking concrete is damn hell.....
That spank is a ritual to ask the gods to let nothing horrible happen to him while in the drum.
LOTO dude. He’s fine.
Nah, its not that deep bro
OP: makes innocent joke.
People in comments: what the fuck bro, don't say that
@@joshcross2831 its literally what hes doing. Youre life sucks so much that you have to hate on others. Pathetic.
That spank is because the truck deserves it.
After you get the complete barrel, nice and chipped out, you should spray it with a mix of diesel and hydraulic fluid so that the concrete won’t stick to the walls anymore. You could also do this method for your schute as well. I am a concrete pumper and I see a couple of the readymix drivers doing this and they have some of the cleanest trucks out there and also the oldest trucks of the fleet.
And then it'll mess up the load that you got to mix you can't add oil to the mix of concrete that's like putting sugar in a mix of concrete
Can’t you just ceramic coat it ?
If you think you're being charged too much, do that job for 3 weeks
I used to have to do that to weld new fins in drums. I was a mechanic for a concrete company. The fins would get so wore out they would fall off. I had low seniority and it was my job to replace them. Had to chip the concrete out to do that.
I would need they keys in my pocket 😂
LOTO dude.
@@HughWoo huh
@@Talon843 lock out tag out
What ever he charges you it wasn’t enough you get in side of one of them that’s a dangerous job
You’re paying for the job not the time it took. Good service is worth every cent
I agree with you 💯
“my chipper always spanks my truck before entering” 😫💅💅💅
Realistic time to do this job is 3 to 6 hours and it is a pain. Inside that tank you have to have special filters to breathe.
Yezh right " I'm in the wrong business" says one of the concrete mafia
You're paying for the time, the experience, the willingness to do a hazardous job, the equiptment, his overhead, on and on.
I once saw an old timer win a bet doing that. All of the youngsters were betting that they could clean the inside of the truck faster than everyone else. He's like 70 years old steps up and said I'll beat all you kids.
So he waited until all of them got finished, and then he went into his little shack gotta have a 1/2 stick of dynamite duct taped it to the middle of the inside of that concrete mixer drum. Light a long fiews and let it go off. It didn't damage the truck, but it knocked loose every piece of concrete in there. Everything else works fine he just cranked the truck up, rotated the drum, a bit poured out all the chips, and he was done. The whole thing took less than 10 minutes.
I'd be nervous in there. A real time of trust unless he takes the ignition key in with him!
He charges that cuz he’s probably gonna get sick from silica dust
He charges what exactly because your comment didn't answer the question
He's wearing the proper P.P.E. so there's no worries there
@@Dane-bootsNcatsN ppe doesn’t work well when you inhale what’s on your clothes, almost no one does it the right way.
@@robfrmny21 you are correct, it's impossible to not breathe in some of it some way. If you are around it everyday idc what mask you are wearing you are going to breathe some in and you are going to carry it with u wherever you go and cake it up in your truck, washing machine, etc etc. I just did a job with asbestos and we had to take extreme precautions and I know we still breathed some in
@@Dane-bootsNcatsN those masks only block 95 percent of the particulates. The other 5 percent are like nano particles which over time can build up in your lungs. I used to grind cinder block walls smooth after bathroom tiles were knocked off and I could run my finger inside the same respirator he has, and would have dust on my fingers. I would wet a rag and put it over the filters. It'd be hard to breathe but was worth it
Wow surprise you had that much concrete build up already. Ohf
Right?! I’m thinking someone needs to learn to wash out and clean their truck properly. Lol
That truck was immaculate. You can't help build up unless you wash it out after every load. Buildup is gonna happen since you can't wash the back of the blades after every load.
Though 150 did seem cheap to me. He must have had a bunch to do?
@@travisyayes6343 our guys rinse out after every load or they get their asses reemed by owner. It’s not hard to get up there and wash out.
@@HopCity22 absolutely I've never seen a truck not get rinsed out. There is 1 company that cares far less than most and even they don't get this bad
Only $150? That looks like at least a $300 job with the wear and tear on the body plus the discomfort of the tight spaces and respirator.
I hope a lot. That job sucks lol. Especially if they have it parked out in the sun. Which they always do. When I did it a safety spotter was mandatory
You always think you have the worse job, that the pumper or chipper have better jobs, you have air conditioning, you sit your whole shift, this guy is going places you probably never will.
A hospital ward
$150 to get inside the drum and chip it out. Fuck that, rather change a toilets wax seal for $150 lol
So wise. Same though ngl. Changing a faucet or toilet for 150$ sounds like a much better deal
You’ll find 100 trucks to work as a chipper at the same location…..while you only find 2 toilets at different locations 😂 with the plumbers being so cheap now 😂
Too cheap. I know it sounds like a lot at $150, but after overhead is figured in and labor, few companies will only charge $150 to pull and set a toilet... And most of those are uninsured handy Andys
@@Retaferyr The overhead of that one single tool and compressor that's been paid off for years lol
@@billfromnxtdoor5575 gas, truck note, ppe, etc. its also a very dangerous job. $500 is normal $150 is slave labor rates
All that vibration in the hands and arms over the years is gonna mess that guy up
It's called Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome or whitefinger.
No it won't. But if by messed up, you mean having strong foremans, then yes.
@@mattrondeau7466 What whitefinger is big lie?
@@charliedecker7702 The lie is that using a chipping hammer will necessarily cause it. Its very rare and only occurs in people susceptible to it. I've been regularly using chipping hammers for 25 years. No problems whatsoever.
My dad did this as a teenager in MS during the summers. He said it was BRUTAL and Sooo hot it would make you almost faint in a short time. He said it was BEYOND deafening and even good (hardly existed) ear protection back then didn't completely help.
It’s always good to zip tie both doors and put a note 📝 - “worker inside drum”
There's a reason why you pay him instead of doing it yourself.
Not sure how long it takes for build up to occur but I'm pretty sure your supposed to power spray out the mixer drum after a haul or before parking the truck for the end of work week.
Washing out from the top can only get so much of it out. There's always going to be some that stays stuck in the corners no matter how much spraying and spinning you do. Chipping is part of the deal. What's really hell is when there's a major breakdown and they aren't able to get the load off, leaving 10 yds of set concrete in the drum. Old school drivers still carry bags of various things meant to ruin the concrete that they throw in if everything goes to hell so it doesn't harden as it sets up.
150 is cheap to be honest. People charge 220 just for washout on interior of a refer.. by the work effort this guy puts in, he deserve more...
No way in heck it's $220 US dollars to wash inside of a semi trailer unless you got 300 pounds of dirt inside
Sometimes you can have engineers that are paid like $300 for 5 minutes of work if the problem was something so basic like a loose bolt on a machine.
You could suffocate, inhale so much dust it kills you, or your eyes could get messed up, you could get heat stroke, it could start rotating again randomly and break bones, chunks of concrete could smack your brain, they might even drive off or fill it with liquid concrete WCS. Enclosed spaces are terrifying even if they seem innoccuous to an untrained person. I welcome you to try it out if you think it'll be easy work
2022 mixer. . . And you got yards of fin-crete comin' outta there. . .
Finger Foreman says you fired. . .gfym. .
C'mown
It’s cheaper to clean your truck properly after every job
Still builds up…
Tell me you’ve never worked with concrete without telling me you’ve ever worked with concrete
@@JorgeReyes-rc6hd can't wash on site?
I always wash down even if I can't wash down on site, I don't do my Pan or my flop but I will definitely wash the inside of the drum.
Never happened to mine. Contractors required to have washouts and if they didn't we had little pop up washouts we carried. Always dumped the rest of my water in the tank when done at job after washing out. Our plants all had water pits to dump into. Only time I had build up is when someone else drove my truck a day I was gone.
But if you rinsed out the barrel there is even less debris,I used to put rolled river rock about 5x8 rocks and drive it engage the barrel and walk the rocks out and the concrete
Confined space
Hazardous materials
Super dangerous work conditions
Low oxygen environment
About a fk ton sounds about right.
I'm actually shocked it's so low
It's not the time you're paying for, it's his experience.
Where I worked us drivers cleaned our own trucks.
I started making my guys do that so they learned to clean them better after each load ! To say the least a couple learned the others I guess like chilling lol
$150 ? That's pocket change nowadays. Anywhere from $500-$1000 will be fair pay.
Only way I'd get in that is take the keys out, tie up the driver, remove the engine, take the cab to the crusher, then go inside the drum.
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I ain’t doing that for no less than $600
350 yard
Make sure you wash every time you load up.
$150 seems like a great price to me.. He definitely could've charged more for the convenience. Most people do so be happy with that low price. If you don't like it, do it yourself.
Yeah I would say 150 for that also
He had to drive out there and back so that's the bare minimum for a skilled worker.
Work like this is not for Lazy people.There are people that ask for a job and then pray not to get it.A work man like me can do 4 trucks a day.Thats when you were born from a real Woman,, when real Man were being made.
Bro when he went in, scared the shit out of me
Brings back memories. Not a fan of mixers. Or delivering concrete. Especially not a fan of the tedious yet demanding job of keeping your drum fins clean. It's literally not possible to clean the back of the fins from outside the truck.
I wouldn’t go in there at all. Too much silica dust in a confined space with no air flow.
Thats what the mask is for
Looks like a confined space to me.
It is. Wonder where his ptw is and gas tester...
Didn't even know this position existed bf now! Learning every day!
My father used to have my brother and I do that every summer... My father owns a cement company and he used to take my brother and I during the summer and we used to have to chip away at all the cement trucks during the summer at the height of it... He used to buy us ice cream when we were done....never got paid...
You got paid, ice cream, food, a house to grow up in, Christmas and birthday presents, love…….
Asian dad I guess by your name. IT FIGURES
@@okeefer2000 LOVE??? You don't know asian parents
@@okeefer2000 Bullshit. Their father was an asshole. To have kids-YOUR OWN KIDS- Doing something that potentially dangerous? That's bordering on child abuse.
2022 you need too get in a older mixer cause you didn’t learn how too wash down your truck ! Then whoever trained you needs a demotion !
he should have a harness and safety crew. that is a confined space
Lol what’s a harness gonna do when that mixer gets accidentally turned on
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I'm sure there's a lock out
Make sure to take keys from ignition beforehand.
A chipping hammer will make dents which makes it easier for concrete to stick. Use a regular hammer.
Hell yea I'd do this for a living bro. This looks fun
You got out cheap. At that price you need to tip him.
Bro definitely didn’t tip.
150? That pretty cheap. Here in Houston i got a guy that charges 250 a hour. If he takes less then 1 hour he charges 300.
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150 x 2 = 300..... Just saying...
@@randomjunk1984 very impressive. 150 x 2 is indeed 300. But what's your point? This guy paid 150 and it took the guy 30 min. The commenter says if his guy did the job it would have been 300 since it was a min charge for less than one hour. So his guy would charge 300 so he says that the 150 the video guy paid was cheap. ...and it was. Half price. But why do you feel the need to specify that 150 x 2 = 300. ? Did you miss something ?
@@invictusbp1prop143 you know what's not very impressive? You coming on here acting all erroneous and insulting, yet you can't grasp the fact that he said that $150 for a half hour is cheap and then said he has a guy who charges $250 an hour. Pay attention now buddy, here's where the math comes into play: since 2x150=300. His guy in Houston charges $250 with a $300 minimum charge.
Are you still with me?
Since $300>$250 this guy's rate is higher.
Do you get it now, or do I have to draw you a picture?
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@@randomjunk1984*starts to say something, turns around and leaves*
Put in a yard or two of jagged crush with about 100 gallons or so of water.
Start the drum spinning on mix, run for a couple hours.
Drum is clean and you now have a couple yards of tumble, or round pea gravel.
If that's the case why are there s9 many of these guys? It's more intensive than that
That's the best idea but it will always EVENTUALLY build up
150 bucks definitely got your money worth
It costs about 9,000 dollars to chip one out with a full load of concrete inside. Ive seen it happen more than once. You only have about an hour and a half to get it off if its not agitated. We often take another truck and use its drum drive to spin the broken trucks drum to get sugar mixed in. Dont always make it in time though.
Yooo I would totally do this job, I gotta look in to this. I love shit like this
Contact your local ready mix companies. You’ll make a lot more than $150.
Carpal tunnel has entered the chat
I did this the summer of 1978 before I started college, Uvalde construction company off motor street in Dallas… terrible job but paid well. RIP to my boss way way back then John Redman
Almost like John redcorn
Try to clean your truck every day when you’re done with it last longer lol 😂😂❤
They're gonna get buildup no matter how much time you spend washing out.
Whenever you leave your whole load and you have a legit washout, washout in discharge from the bottom up ,make sure to keep your weep holes clear
It's a tough job, doubt it's easy to find a comfortable position to work in and you know, 150 ain't a lot. For a 30 min job, that dude's great. You're on the road quicker and he has the skills to pull in money while not bleeding the customer
That doesn’t sound very expensive. I’d say he’s worth it
I had operated a mixture in Houston back in the late seventies and we never had a issue with buildup. The Cure would be to have plenty of water for a rinse and make sure the workers don't use up all your water.
Try doing that in the Desert during 50° Celcius in the middle of the day.
And try washing out more often.
$150 for 30 minutes of operating a jackhammer *inside* the drum of a concrete mixer. At least half of that was hazard pay and having had both some close-space training and having seen/heard what happens to people who enter those spaces unprepared, I’d say he absolutely earned every cent.
When I ran mixer the company made the drivers do this themselves. It made them more likely to clean out properly and to wash down between loads
What I've learned is if you can't afford to pay someone, you do it yourself.
Thanks captain obvious
@@kylereed5161 your welcome captain hindsight
Years ago I worked as a delivery driver for a concrete company to pay for college. We had a 9 yard rear load Diamond Reo truck that was near full sitting at a stop light on First Street down by the Ohio river when the 120 year old 10 foot brick sewer collapsed under it.
It sank down until only the chute was visible.
Needless to say, the concrete in the drum set up solid by the time they got it out and towed back to the yard.
We removed the drum and the driver had to go in with the chipping gun to remove almost nine yards of concrete.
He was still working on it when I had to go back to the university.
As far as I know, they still have the newspaper clipping of it up on the wall in the dispatchers office.
So I'm supposed to believe that the truck sank it wasn't at a angle like front end of the truck up in the air In that case a whole lot of concrete would have spelled out so how did you chip out 9 yd and any company that pulls a barrel off and has somebody chip it is not a real company you take the barrel off and throw it out
Most times they just use a crane to get it off, scrap it and get a new drum.
It's a dirty, noisy and potentially dangerous job. Not everyone can or ready to do it.
Considering that a good chipper is helping keep the truck stable so you can deliver a square load- good salt.
$150 for that work? You got a deal man.
Imagine being on the inside of a Drum and then imagine being on in the inside of a Bell. Now add the two together and multiply it by (8x6) and you get ONE NOISY JOB!!!!!!
WHAT what did you say..lol
ehh say something Sonny...😎☝️✌️🙏💪
This is a hazardous job think about it all the air particles contaminated
Go back in twenty years and see how this guys respiratory is or if some idiot turns on this truck and starts this mixer
When they chip our fleet, the guy in the drum has the keys in his pocket.
The television show, 'Myth Busters', has the best way to do this. Just look up, "Myth Busters Cement truck."
"Alright sir it's all clean"
"Ok but where's my truck?"
ANFO would do the trick
Idk why but i’d be too afraid of getting buried in concrete for some reason
Confined space permit? Respirator air line? Lock & tag out? Lookout? I used to go into chemical reactors, and sometimes dynamite had to be used if it went bad.
If you're that worried about 150 .. get in and do it yourself .. I hate people like that.. he wasn't charging by the hour.. say if it took him longer he probably charge the same..
Wrong business was when you drove from Michigan all the Way to California for 17 square feet of cement lol
Folks, that’s how a man works if he’s charges a flat rate.
Quick and professional because it’s probably his business.
I drove a mixer about 45 years ago. Back in antiquity. We had to do our own mixers. Nasty job.
Well you let it get hard inside the truck so you got to pay somebody to get it out if it's not you getting in there and getting it out then you realize how much that's really worth... Hardened concrete is not something easy to get out of a truck...
Inhaling Super abrasive silicates…crawling into something that slice you into Pepperonis….vibration in cold weather= Rimbaud Syndrome
Don’t matter. I could do it my whole life and be okay
Tell me you work in an office without telling me you do
@@daevid21 yes bro ur so cool for actively taking years off ur life
it's called a respirator
@@daevid21 not an office but my days of busting knuckles are a memory of life itself. Went from delivering pizzas to being the guy that tips his drivers $10. My lungs are messed up from mowing 130houses a week for eight years.
I've never understood a man who wears that style gloves🫸
Forreal I’m a boilerman &’ I don’t even wear those and I’m moving around metal near 600 degrees all the time
I've worked in heavy machinery and metal manufacturing and those gloves save fingers more than any other safety ever put in place. they are made of Kevlar and are so tough you can't possibly imagine.
@@Silk_OG I personally have never needed such a tough pair of gloves but I’m sure you can agree when I say less is more sometimes. When your gloves have inches of room in the fingers left to fill, doesn’t it seem counter productive? I do & working heavy machinery I’m sure a fitted well ventilated durable glove sufficed. Right too for every job I guess is what I’m trying to say
1200$ lol🤷♂️
Remember, you're not paying $150 for somebody to do it; you're paying $150 so _you_ don't have to. Worth every penny.
Tools $5k energy $1k work $25 transportation $30. It is higher than average cost, but yes, lucrative business, and no one wants to do it, but it always is needed. I think this is a great idea.