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04/02/07, 05:59 PM
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Droughts and cops
Been working all weekend to get ready for a detached utility room concrete pour. Concrete truck came out and tore up my lane to my house just turning into my place cause the ground is so soft from all the rains.
The truck turned around and went back. Now they want to charge me a $47.00 delivery charge cause their truck couldn't make it to my site.
Sure it is a shame to come out here for nothing. But between the two of us, why should I get stuck with the charge. I don't know the specifications for their trucks. They never asked me any questions about my little lane. They are the professionals.
It is not like they tell you this or give you a piece a paper stating this is part of the agreement. I don't care whether or not anybody makes a donation to them or not. I've got few hundred thousand New Orleans expatriates and a few million illegal aliens and tens of millions of people irresponsibly breeding children to support.
Went through three years of hard drought. Two hours a day dragging water hoses trying to keep things alive. Dodged wild fires and obeyed the burn bans till all they just stopped issuing them cause all they dead grass turned to dirt. Now water just sits cause the ground is saturated. Mosquitos are something else. We have two, separate strong chances of rain this week. Don't have any idea when I will be able to pour. Llano Ready-Mix sure the heck ain't Morton's salt.
Where's a dad-gum drought when you need one?
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04/02/07, 06:09 PM
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primrose - I think you have my N. ala usual rain. We are inches below normal here N. of Huntsville. The rain keeps going thru Nashville and Birmingham but missing us.
Sorry.
You can send the rain this way, just put up a detour sign for the weather.
Angie
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04/02/07, 06:41 PM
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new some one
new some people and they had to pay for the whole load of concrete they poured it at the mouth of there lane......
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04/02/07, 07:42 PM
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When they deliver here (3 miles outside City), the delivery charge is $75.00. (That is in addition to the price of the product. (Gallup, New Mexico)
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04/02/07, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by AngieM2
primrose - I think you have my N. ala usual rain. We are inches below normal here N. of Huntsville. The rain keeps going thru Nashville and Birmingham but missing us.
Sorry.
You can send the rain this way, just put up a detour sign for the weather.
Angie
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If we have your usual rain, we probably have your usual mosquitos too. Please come get both.
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04/03/07, 07:11 AM
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just be glad they did not charge you for the mud (concrete) as well,
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04/03/07, 11:03 AM
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Angie, I'm with you...and I didn't even get ANY rain last weekend at Park City, TN!
I'll take any kind of storm...maybe tonight it'll rain. 60% they say, but they said 80% last Saturday night...and not a drop fell on my hay!
We're 12" behind in the N. Ala/S. Tn region here. Had the driest winter in Madison County in over 20 years.
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Originally Posted by AngieM2
primrose - I think you have my N. ala usual rain. We are inches below normal here N. of Huntsville. The rain keeps going thru Nashville and Birmingham but missing us.
Sorry.
You can send the rain this way, just put up a detour sign for the weather.
Angie
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04/03/07, 01:03 PM
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We like to start planting corn April 20-25 up here these days. Oats should get in before then.
Ducks swimming in my fields, there is a blizzard 100 miles north of me as I write this, should get into the teens the next few nights.
Think it's going to be a long wet miserable spring again.
Always bad when it's way too wet or way too dry for a person.
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04/04/07, 06:20 AM
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The concrete company has a reasonable expectation to be able to make the delivery on your place with a standard cement mixer truck. If they cannot be expected to make a conventional (reasonable) delivery, the obligation is on you to tell them that, and make special arrangements.
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04/04/07, 10:03 AM
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They thought you knew what you were doing....... they might have expected a concrete pumper..........LOL no they didnt but if its the first rain in while they just were not back to thinking rain= soft and apparently neither were you.
What if they would have got closer and sunk in the yard? THAT is your responceability so 50 bucks is cheep.
Now if you would just build them a nice concrete road to the site.....
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04/04/07, 10:29 AM
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You just can't please everyone. Gripe about rain, gripe about no rain. LOL
Maybe you need to pour a driveway to the utility room.
Call a different company. No product delivered, no delivery charge.
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04/04/07, 07:57 PM
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Gotta agree with FoxTrapper and FantasyMaker, it is the contractors responsibility to make sure that it's possible for the truck to get to the pour site. You're lucky that he didn't get stuck, that would've been another $250-300 for the tow truck. Also, if the mud was a custom blend that he couldn't pour at another job site, you would've been hit up for the mud also.
Will
Also, if I remember right, a loaded mixer weighs in around 54,000-64,000lbs.
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04/05/07, 10:11 AM
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time to think about making some lime stabilized areas? That way, you can have your supportive surface, yet keep the porosity as well.
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