Concrete solution for national parks

Carmix mixers are proving to be an economic and carbon-saving way of transporting concrete to remote locations.

Climate change, flooding and fires are putting pressure on national parks to maintain roads, tracks and facilities.

Telecommunication towers and power lines are also in constant state of upgrade.

However, in park locations which are hard to access, getting concrete to or mixing concrete for maintenance and repair works at those sites can be difficult.

For national park works, many contractors tend to obtain their concrete from several well-established ready-mix concrete (RMC) suppliers, most of which use larger drum capacity trucks.

This creates a problem because due to Safety Health and Environmental concerns, these large expensive units cannot enter any gravel tracks or those with steep grades and narrow access, features which are common with national parks.

Some contractors have even requested clients to arrange supply of concrete via helicopter, which is a costly exercise.

The good news is that there is an alternate solution. Pilecom Equipment is working to address the problems of getting concrete to areas that are difficult to access by working with contractors to utilise Carmix 4x4 mixers to relay the material.

Pilecom director Boyd Cousins said that by combining the units with the delivery of concrete from an agitator truck on site, contractors can efficiently reach areas where large RMC trucks cannot.