"The Concrete Guy"
It's funny how it all happened, how I became "Marty the Concrete Guy".
I was just a normal kid wanting school to be over so that I could get a "real job". I had always worked during summer vacation, and after school. Back then if you had a full time job you could make a "LIVING".
So as fate had it, the first "real job" that I landed fresh out of high school was working at a local readi mix plant as a "yard boy". Now if you don't know that that is, I'll tell you, that's where the concrete is made, and where the trucks are kept that deliver the concrete. As a "yard boy" I had many jobs, all related to the making of concrete and delivering concrete.
So again as fate had it some of the cement truck drivers also did "side jobs" and the first week I worked there one of the drivers asked if I wanted to wheel barrow some concrete for him on a Saturday, I had no idea what I was getting in to, but I agreed to work, and so the story goes.
I was just a kid, it was hard work, I could handle it. And so for the next year I worked almost every Saturday helping different drivers on these "side jobs" pouring concrete. During the week I was working at the "batch plant" that's where they actually blend the ingredients together that makes the concrete (Rock, Sand, Cement etc...), and working on the trucks that deliver the concrete. After about a year or so I got my class 1 licence and moved up from a "yard boy" to a redi mix driver, delivering redi mix concrete to all kinds of people, some very professional some not so, and everything in between. Every job that I delivered to I would watch the different techniques of placing the concrete and working, and finishing the concrete.
So for the next 15 years I delivered concrete every day, and had my own "side jobs" almost every weekend. I just loved working with concrete and decided that I wanted to do it all the time. So I took a chance, and quit driving the cement trucks, and have been busy ever since.
I used to make these home made signs that just said "Concrete Work" with my phone number, people would call and if they left a message, when I called them back I would say "Hi this is Marty, the concrete guy".
So that is how it all happened. It's been about 32 years since that first Saturday "side job" and I've been at it ever since.
I love what I do, and when it comes to concrete, I do it all - From Residential to Commercial. I you can dream it, I can pour it!
Sincerely,
Marty "The Concrete Guy"
I was just a kid, it was hard work, I could handle it. And so for the next year I worked almost every Saturday helping different drivers on these "side jobs" pouring concrete. During the week I was working at the "batch plant" that's where they actually blend the ingredients together that makes the concrete (Rock, Sand, Cement etc...), and working on the trucks that deliver the concrete. After about a year or so I got my class 1 licence and moved up from a "yard boy" to a redi mix driver, delivering redi mix concrete to all kinds of people, some very professional some not so, and everything in between. Every job that I delivered to I would watch the different techniques of placing the concrete and working, and finishing the concrete.
So for the next 15 years I delivered concrete every day, and had my own "side jobs" almost every weekend. I just loved working with concrete and decided that I wanted to do it all the time. So I took a chance, and quit driving the cement trucks, and have been busy ever since.
I used to make these home made signs that just said "Concrete Work" with my phone number, people would call and if they left a message, when I called them back I would say "Hi this is Marty, the concrete guy".
So that is how it all happened. It's been about 32 years since that first Saturday "side job" and I've been at it ever since.
I love what I do, and when it comes to concrete, I do it all - From Residential to Commercial. I you can dream it, I can pour it!
Sincerely,
Marty "The Concrete Guy"