I just hit 500 yards of concrete poured in a single month

My crew and I finished a big warehouse floor job in Tacoma last Friday, and when I added up the tickets, it came to 503 yards for the month. I've been doing this for 12 years and I've never broken 400 before. It was a mix of that big slab and a few smaller driveways, but the crazy part was the weather held up for almost every pour. We used a lot of my old Gyp-Crete power trowel, which just kept running without a hiccup. It felt like we were moving non-stop, but seeing that number on the calculator was a real shock. It makes me wonder what a normal busy month looks like for other crews working on commercial stuff. Has anyone else tracked their yardage and been surprised by the total?

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patriciah513h ago

Buddy of mine had a similar shock last summer. His crew did a string of those prefab foundation jobs for a new subdivision. They were just grinding through each one, not really keeping a running total. When he finally sat down with all the material invoices at the end of August, the number was so high he thought he'd added wrong. Turns out they'd moved over 450 yards, which blew his previous record out of the water. He said it was all about having a stretch of perfect site access and no equipment failures. Makes you realize how much you can actually move when everything clicks.