Its true, Bob will surley ask to see my "Trip-Permit" over this statment but its true. There's lots of jobs out there that are still being truck-poured. Flatworkers that we see 2 or 3 times a week during fall, winter & spring will order pumps less in summer months. Especially residential guys, They tailgate driveways, patios, whatever until mid to late October. Try pull'n a mixer off the pavement any later than that and you better have a wrecker on speed dial. Once the ground is saturated they have to order a pump. Rain reduces the amount of flatwork being poured every day. It also makes it nearly impossible to truck-pour anything past the curb. So rain on, just be sure to have PLENTY of dunnage.

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I stopped by a job site last week after rain gave them a card. walked a way they said that they don't need a pump.

anyway they pourd after rain tailgating first truck got stuck in mud. owner of house called me right away got there in 30 min got in got one axle in mud set up got the job done then one truck got me out.

I knew they would need a pump but when it comes to contracter trying to save the cost of the pump for himself .

It's all about the storm drains.  Trucks working beyond the curbline drag mud into the streets, then rain washes mud into the storm drains and kills fish...

...gotta love environmentalists. 

In the NW, rain can be a pumper's friend.

On a side note- I really enjoy watching the last minute scramble to erect the make-shift shelters to keep the rain off the work they're about to pour.  There's nothing more entertaining than watching some fellas, half of whom are still buzzing from the night before, try to affix tarps to a structure...with no engineering skillz...good times!

I just remembered something...there is something more entertaining...take the whole scenario I've described above - except replace the workers with ones from south of the border...

Yeah GOOD TIMES, Just pumped & finished 2200 feet yesterday in Monsoon + wind. Troweled under visqueen for 2 hours, Got off the slab with pockets full of leaves & maple seeds, NO buzz from nite before! Emptied pocket-o-leaves and refilled with $2500 cash. The buzz will be tonight! I did get a chuckle watch'n a guy trowling under plastic with his A$$-crack sticking to it. This is why exposed agg. is so popular in the N.W. sometimes its what you get wheather ya like it or not.

Oh yeah, exposed costs 20 to 30 cents more per foot than hard trowel? I love this business

We experience the same thing in our area. When it rains, it tends to get a bit busier due to the fact that the residential contractors don't want to tear up the lots tailgating the slab. A lot of the time we end up pumping from the street, which poses it's own set of problems with spillage, oil leaks, etc... Many of the home builders were starting to enforce their SWWPS program, that was until the market tumbled and the production numbers went way down. They went back to tailgating slabs, garages, and flatwork to keep costs down. Funny thing how that all played out. That which is important one day, becomes not so important the next day, if it starts cutting into a builders profits? Interesting, isn't it?

Yeah, Kinda like when steel prices sky-rocketed, All the sudden res. walls & footings no longer needed as much rebar? MMM.