Bill Wynne
Active member
Fred's cost for someone making 22 tops and furnishing all the material and labor was about $42 a top. This was bought a few years ago and the price would be up some today. It might be double that and still be a good deal.
Here in San Angelo we are making our own with free labor. We are in the process of making an additional 12 moveable benches with 4" X 4" steel legs and braces filled with concrete. Our cost on the last ones were around $62 each. The new ones will probably cost about $80 each.
The tops have about .108 yards of concrete each. If we can get ready mix concrete delivered about 4 blocks to our shop for $100 per yard, the cost will be $10.80 per top. If we use 40# bags of premixed sackcrete at $4.50 per bag our cost will be $19.44 per top. I have left out forming material and steel and I am just looking at the concrete cost.
I have experience in working with concrete but not everyone does. It would not be hard to find a concrete man that likes to shoot and would work for modest wages.
Concho Bill
Here in San Angelo we are making our own with free labor. We are in the process of making an additional 12 moveable benches with 4" X 4" steel legs and braces filled with concrete. Our cost on the last ones were around $62 each. The new ones will probably cost about $80 each.
The tops have about .108 yards of concrete each. If we can get ready mix concrete delivered about 4 blocks to our shop for $100 per yard, the cost will be $10.80 per top. If we use 40# bags of premixed sackcrete at $4.50 per bag our cost will be $19.44 per top. I have left out forming material and steel and I am just looking at the concrete cost.
I have experience in working with concrete but not everyone does. It would not be hard to find a concrete man that likes to shoot and would work for modest wages.
Concho Bill