Honestly, I Don’t Really Know What to Expect

Well good morning everybody. I have a special job this morning – we are going to be using our concrete cans for the first time for concrete. So I got that one with no board on it, the one on the end over there has the board on it already, but I figure I’ve already painted the board so let me just slap her on this bad boy right here and then get it all drilled into place, go from there.

So I’m going to set you down over here, let’s get these boards positioned. Is that good? Is that a good spot you guys? Good. All right, I’m going to move these boards – they are wet, they are heavy and it is cold. First day of actual winter here in Florida, definitely had to wear my pants today.

The Cold Morning Setup

Let’s get her loaded on up. The water on here is actually frozen, so there’s rain or there’s dew that’s on here, it’s frozen to the board. Oh come on! Oh that hurt so good, I did not need that. Oh man up Joe, you got this. That really sucked – those boards are not light and I just stepped in a nice hole, twisted the life out of my ankle. But it is what it is, what are we going to cry about?

Boards are in place, let’s go get the drill, let’s go get the bolts, let’s get it bolted on in there. Not sure what I’m going to use yet but I’m going to lift the board up just a little bit to give it some breathing room so hopefully the wood doesn’t rot out. Let’s rock and roll.

Installation Challenges

So I’m going to use my front rolly skate brackets to kind of elevate this just a touch and then I’ll drill the holes, get it mounted, rock and roll. I’m going to put you down. All right, so let’s lift you up a little bit. I like… I might have gone a little shorter on my bolts than I should have. You know it’s been absolutely beautiful outside and I waited till it was cold to finish this up. This will be interesting to see how I line up. There we go, yep I might just need longer bolts all around. Fun stuff.

All right, well it looks like we’re going to ride with the boards not completely installed today. That didn’t work out. All right, why don’t you come with me now?

The Dual-Purpose Design

So I know I talked about it in the last video, but if you didn’t watch the last video, this is a 7-yard can up to the top where that green line is, and then I have a 12-inch board bracket that goes above it. The reason I did it this way was so that I could have a heavy duty concrete can, but when it’s not being used for concrete I still have a 10-yard dumpster, which is what the top of the wood would be.

I do get a lot more calls for 10-yarders. I’m trying to get more into the concrete work, so I wanted to have a dual purpose can. For that reason I ordered two of them, and in the future I’ll probably order just a dedicated seven-yard can now that I have a little inventory – a 10-yard. But the full metal 10-yarders are already all booked out. It does kind of prove my point that the 10-yarders were the more valuable piece of the puzzle at the moment. As we grow, we shall see how these work out.

First Concrete Job

So I’m thinking this is right on the line but I can probably do it in one load. I’m a little concerned but I don’t think it’s going to be so bad I can’t manage it. One way or another they are going to do nothing but the concrete, so it’ll be nothing but center block, little bit of concrete, a little bit of mixed rebar maybe. But the rebar is not a problem where I dump. Should be interesting to see what the final weight is, but I don’t think it’s going to be too big of a problem. Let’s get this can dropped.

So we just got this one dropped, can is on the ground. One of the – actually two cool features to these dumpsters is I had them do with the ratchet binder right there, so it’s a heavier duty locking mechanism. And they also use way bigger rear rollers, which is very nice for rolling out onto dirt and grass surfaces. Rolls much nicer having the bigger surface area.

The Job in Action

So they are going to get this hopefully done today, but if not next couple days we will be back to pick it up, see how much she weighed. But I got a feeling we’re going to be pretty close to in line with our limits, but I think we’ll be all right.

So they loaded me up real nice, funny space in the back. Let see how this thing handles getting lifted up by the trailer now, we will go from there. We got it up there, she was plenty heavy but honestly I don’t really know what to expect for a weight on that. Let’s see what she ends up being.

Mid-Job Adjustments

So they have two crane trucks – little small crane trucks. The bigger truck which is an F450, the crane is down, and the smaller truck which is an F250 has a small crane and he’s not real confident that it’s going to even be able to pick up those beams. So I said in an effort to make it easier, I can always drop this bin on the ground. We would need to empty it first, so yeah he said let’s go ahead and do the swap out so I can put the bin on the ground, then they could load it nice and easy and then yeah they’ll be all done with their project for the day.

All of made a nice couple of dollars and didn’t even have it out for the whole day – just a half a day rental with a swap out basically, and I made my money. So going to go dump it now for free. Beautiful part of concrete. Much faster with two hands. All done.

Finishing the Installation

All right, so got that job done yesterday, went to Home Depot this morning, swapped out my bolts. So let’s actually check these bolts out now, make sure I have a good size. Looking good, looking good, we’ll be all right. Now it’s a little bit more windy today, so got my buddy with me to eliminate some wind noise.

I am gonna – I already drilled two holes in that one yesterday, I’m going to do the other holes on the other side. So I’m going to put these rolly skates back under the boards, give just a little bit of gap. What I’m doing there is trying to keep the wood from being directly on the metal. The more breathing room it has, the easier it dries out, the less chance it has of rotting. So it’ll last for years longer doing a small gap, bolting them in all done.

Professional Installation Tips

Now when I mount these bolts I’m going to actually mount the nut and washer on the outside, and the reason I do that is because I don’t want stuff snagging on the inside. So I want this to be as smooth of a surface as possible for when I’m dumping. The more obstacles you put in your way, the more annoying dumping is going to be later. So I’m going to avoid that headache by doing them to the outside.

Does mean you need to be a little more aware when you’re walking outside of it, but what I’ll end up doing is cutting these basically flush to the nut, just a little bit on top of it, and then filing it down so that they are nice and smooth.

Okay so those are in, let’s grab that drill now. Rinse and repeat. I just realized I only got half the nuts and bolts I need to do the second dumpster now. Fun, we’ll go to Home Depot again a little later I guess.

Final Assembly

All right, now we should just be able to wrench her on down, get her nice and tight and they are ready to rumble for the future. Half-inch socket. All right, so that’s the outside. I’m going to cut these a little bit beyond the nut itself and then just hit them with a metal shaver. So those are now locked in place.

You’ll see the reason I did the rolly skates as a little gap – it’s about a finger gap. So I did this on the dump trailer, I didn’t actually use rolly skates, I used carpenter pencils when I did the last time. But essentially what you’re doing is giving the board breathing room.

And the reality is if let’s say we use this as a 10-yard dumpster, the amount of stuff that can slip through there is very minimal. Chances of anything slipping through is really close to none. I actually did the dump trailers like this three or four boards high, rarely had anything slip through that kind of thing. You know it’s like it’s possible, but chances are very low. The benefit of it outweighs the negative.

And then yeah, we are now bolted in place. Now we just need to get her beautified, put some stickers on her, make her Maxco-official. But that’s it for this one guys, I appreciate you tagging along. Good luck out there, kill it in 2025 baby.