For landscape contractors, hardscape contractors, paver installers, outdoor-living contractors, small construction companies, and business owners who regularly need small-to-medium amounts of concrete but currently depend on ready-mix delivery or subcontractors.
If you already build patios, walkways, retaining walls, outdoor living spaces, or other landscape and hardscape projects, there is a good chance concrete is already part of your business.
The questions to consider are: How much control do you have over it, and are you tired of paying the short-load fee?
For many landscape and hardscape contractors, concrete is something that has to be scheduled around. You may need a relatively small amount for a footing, pad, walkway, curb, or another part of a larger project, but that does not always make ordering from a traditional ready-mix supplier convenient.
For smaller pours, short-load fees can make traditional ready-mix an expensive option when you only need a fraction of a full load.
At Cart-Away, we offer another option. Adding a portable concrete mixer to your operation can give you the ability to handle more of that work yourself. Instead of treating concrete as a separate part of the project that has to be coordinated with someone else, you can make it another service your crew is equipped to provide. For many landscape and hardscape businesses, our MixKing concrete mixing trailers are a practical place to start.
You May Already Have the Customers for Concrete
One of the advantages of adding concrete to an existing landscape or hardscape operation is that you do not necessarily have to find an entirely new type of customer.
Think about the projects your crews are already completing. A new patio may require concrete. A retaining wall may need a footing. A fence project can require posts to be set. Outdoor features, steps, sidewalks, equipment pads, curbs, and other improvements can all create opportunities for concrete work.
Producing concrete yourself can help you keep more of those projects within your own operation while expanding what you are able to offer existing customers. Concrete does not have to be an entirely new direction for your company. It can be a natural extension of the work you already do.
When a Small Pour Creates a Big Scheduling Problem
Traditional ready-mix trucks are an important part of the concrete industry, especially for large pours. But not every project requires a truckload of concrete.
Landscape and hardscape work can involve smaller pours across different jobs and different days. That can leave contractors coordinating crews around concrete delivery schedules or dealing with the challenges associated with short-load orders.
Portable concrete equipment gives you another way to approach those jobs. Instead of depending exclusively on a ready-mix truck to arrive at a specific point in your project, you can bring concrete mixing capabilities closer to where the work is happening. That can be especially useful when weather, site preparation, customer changes, or the progress of other work affects your schedule. Your crew has greater flexibility to make concrete part of the job rather than building the job around a concrete delivery.
Make the MixKing Part of Your Equipment Lineup
If you are considering adding concrete capabilities to your landscape or hardscape business, the MixKing is one of the first pieces of equipment to consider.
Our MixKing trailers combine a concrete mixer with a heavy-duty trailer platform, giving contractors a portable solution that can move from project to project. The concept is straightforward: tow the mixer to where you need it, mix the concrete, dispense it, and move on to the next job. That portability makes the MixKing especially relevant for landscape and hardscape companies whose crews regularly work at different properties and jobsites.
The MixKing is available in 1-cubic-yard and 1.75-cubic-yard capacities, giving businesses options based on the amount of concrete their typical projects require. For smaller projects and repairs, a 1-yard mixer can provide a practical amount of concrete without requiring a full-size ready-mix delivery. When a project calls for additional material, the 1.75-yard MixKing provides greater capacity. Applications can include patios, sidewalks, utility work, and other concrete projects.
Most importantly, adding a MixKing does not mean you need to turn your landscape company into a traditional concrete company. It can simply become another piece of equipment your crews use to complete more of the project themselves.
Turn Concrete Into Another Service
Your excavators, skid steers, compactors, saws, trailers, and other equipment allow your crews to perform specific parts of a project. A concrete mixing trailer can fill another role in that lineup.
When a project calls for concrete, you have equipment available to produce it. Once that portion is complete, your crew continues with the rest of the project. That capability can help you take greater control of your schedule while reducing your dependence on outside concrete suppliers for smaller jobs.
It can also create another service to offer your customers. Instead of stopping at excavation, grading, pavers, retaining walls, landscaping, or site preparation, your company can potentially handle more of the concrete work associated with those projects.
You do not have to start by taking on large concrete jobs. Start by looking at the concrete your customers already need and deciding whether bringing that work in-house makes sense for your operation.
Start With a MixKing. Grow From There.
A MixKing can be the starting point without having to be the limit of your concrete operation. At Cart-Away, we manufacture concrete mixing trailers along with loading, batching, mixing, and production equipment for businesses with different concrete needs.
You may start with a MixKing because you want a portable mixer for your own landscape and hardscape projects. If your concrete volume increases, you can then explore equipment that can make loading and production more efficient. Systems like our LoadPro and PortaBatch can help you take the next step by adding dedicated material-loading capabilities as your concrete operation grows.
The goal is not to invest in more equipment than your business needs. It is to create a concrete setup that fits the work you are doing now while giving your operation room to grow.
Could Concrete Be Your Next Service?
If your crews already build projects that require patios, footings, walkways, posts, pads, curbs, steps, or other concrete work, the opportunity may already be in front of you. What you may be missing is the equipment to handle more of that work yourself.
At Cart-Away, we have been building portable concrete solutions for more than 35 years. Our equipment has been used by contractors, rental companies, municipalities, concrete professionals, and other operators who need a practical way to produce and deliver concrete.
For a landscape or hardscape business, adding concrete does not have to mean entering an entirely different industry. It can simply mean doing more of the work your customers already need.
Explore our Cart-Away MixKing concrete mixing trailers and our other portable concrete solutions to see how adding concrete could fit into your business today—and give you another way to grow tomorrow.
