Bags or a Short-Load Truck? When the Truck Wins
About 45 eighty-pound bags make one cubic yard. Past about a yard, a short-load or volumetric truck is usually the better call once you count the lifting.
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Forty bags is a workout. Here's when a short-load truck is the better call. An 80-pound bag of concrete mix yields about six-tenths of a cubic foot. It takes about 45 of those bags to make one cubic yard. Past about a yard, you're looking at close to two tons of bags to mix and place by hand. That's usually the point where a short-load truck costs less, once you count your time. A volumetric truck is a short-load truck that mixes on site. It carries sand, stone, cement, and water separately, so you pay for what you use. Run the numbers in the bag calculator at concretenear.com, then find a local short-load plant.
Photo credits
- Stacked bags of cementitious mix on a pallet. Aliaksei Smalenski · Pexels License (free to use; attribution not required, recorded anyway) · Pexels photo 29817952 — stacked cement bags.
- A volumetric mixer truck (mixes on site). Ctisales16 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · File:Volumetric Concrete Mixer2.jpg · attribution required.
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