How do you concrete a parlour floor ?

[newholland]

Good Evening,


How do you physically go about getting the volume of wet concrete into a new milking parlour to do the pit floor and also the cows standings?.....the building and walls are there already.

What have other people done? @Cows 'n grass @countryman765 @eulb @Headless chicken @Princess Pooper

a)Do you just need to find 6 x big blokes with wheel barrows?..... maybe promise a wheel barrow full of cider if they can manage 6 cubic meters lorry in 20 minutes?......how long does it take to empty a concrete lorry using wheel barrows?

b) do I try and hire some kind of small mini dumper which will drive along the standings on top of the mesh maybe?

c) A concrete pump? - if so what is the cost to hire one please? - how much faffing about is one to use......is there much "waste" of concrete left in the pipes?

d) any other ideas?.........15m telehandler with an auger bucket boomed in either end?

e) Hire a slurry tanker ?

 

[sleepy]

e) Hire a slurry tanker ?

 

[Recoil]

How close can you get to the parlour with a concrete wagon?

 

[Dragon]

six wheel barrows and you will soon be down - that how we did ours. how many standings is the parlour?

 

[bobk]

Screed it

 

[Princess Pooper]

We had pit walls (concrete panels) in place and the pit floor was poured as a job on its own, only 3 of the building walls were in place to allow access - piped/chute delivery from the mixer. That meant that the pit floor could then be walked on once set to prepare other bits.
The main cow standing floors were also poured before the final wall was fitted, just with battens on that side to keep the concrete in. We were able to access the other (entry) end of the parlour with the concrete lorry in the collecting yard and the chute through the cow entry doors so could pour from both ends. No pics of job in process but you can see the 2 stages here.

Pit floor in and metalwork getting placed

Cow standing all concreted. End wall not yet fitted where I am taking the picture from.

 

[Forever Fendt]

concrete pump would be 350-400 here remember you need to get a pump mix it would not be ideal as you probably don't have the head room we use a 1.4m wide skip that fits the jcb q fit like a bucket it holds 0.8 meter on a 14 m loadall its handy but need the legs down

 

[multi power]

You can get some lorry's with a conveyer to reach

 

[TomB]

Did a small amount with wheel barrows, mostly with small dupper hired in, and trying to be as clever as possible about the order of things. You can get dumpers about 1m wide. Took us about a month to pour floor, walls, standings etc.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

We only have the one wall on our parlour so the pit walls were poured first then the floor and the cow standings were done just using bucket fulls of concrete from the builders Manitou reaching in from the open side. A few fiddly bits were done with barrows. All finished just with a wodden hand float finish.

 

[Blue.]

When I built my 12/24 I bought my concrete off a firm that barrowed from a 3 cube readymix wagon,I was hard pushed laying it on my own.

New parlour we mixed it all with the pan mixer then took it all in with a 6' bucket (holds nearly half a cube) on my jcb403,as the cow standing is just over 6' we never barrowed any.

 

[tanker]

Put a 32/32 in three years ago,our own pan mixer and we barrowed it in,builder got a couple of strong lads in for the day and it was done soon enough, we put some carborundum onto the surface to help with grip too..

 

[newholland]

Thanks for the ideas.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Even with two barrows you'd be tipped by not more than half hour.

 

[newholland]

right, who do I go with?.........somebody else said 6 x blokes wheel barrowing 30 meters distance for 20mins does a 6m2 lorry, by which time the blokes will be exhausted.

Nothing worse than having a panic with a concrete lorry

 

[newholland]

speaking of which.....is there any contactors on here advertising wheel barrow teams?

 

[SilliamWhale]

right, who do I go with?.........somebody else said 6 x blokes wheel barrowing 30 meters distance for 20mins does a 6m2 lorry, by which time the blokes will be exhausted.

Nothing worse than having a panic with a concrete lorry

Sorry I didn't realise it was 30m away. I'd slip the concrete driver some cash and ask him to wait as long as you need

 

[newholland]

I should have said, my mistake

 

[RobFZS]

can't you dump some in a dumper when its time to go for the mixer? we did that when doing our new shed, give you an extra 5 mins or so

 

[Cookie]

We did the cow standings in our 16:32 parlour with wheel barrows in a day. Me and my brother were on the barrows and my digger man was screeding off and tamping. 2 people was about right for 15 cube, any more and you'd be getting in each other's way, it is hard work though! The pit floor was done with the JCB as only one side was in at that point so could tip straight into it