[Shop-talk] Pour your own footing?

[Matt]

I won't for a moment dispute the benefit of avoiding bagged mix.Having mixed
25 bags in a wheel barrow with a shovel, I vowed to beg, borrow, buy or steal
a portable mixer should I ever do another concrete job where I couldn't get a
truck in.  But a calculation check may be in order: using the quickrete.com
calculator, 200 CF comes to 333 80# bags that around here (middle GA) goes for
$3.50/bag or around $1200. My back hurts just thinking about 300+ 80# bags of
quickrete!


Matt


<markmiller at threeboysfarm.com> wrote:

> the footing size you listed (19"x24"x30'x2 plus 8"x8"x25'x2) than you are
> talking about just over 200 cubic feet of concrete.

Which is 450 80 lb. bags.  That's over $5600 at my local big box
store, but you might get a quantity discount.

Seems easy to compare that to $3500 and no labor on your part....

Jeff Scarbrough