A georgia buggy, which yards also list as a concrete buggy or a power buggy, rents for roughly $100 to $180 a day and about $300 to $500 a week. It is the machine that gets concrete from the chute to a pour the truck cannot reach: a 16 cubic foot tub on a powered chassis, carrying in one trip what takes roughly a dozen wheelbarrow runs.
Walk-behind or ride-on, and why it matters
A walk-behind buggy is cheaper, narrower and fine for short runs on a slab or through a doorway. A ride-on carries more and covers ground fast, which pays on a long haul across a site but needs room to turn and a route with no tight corners. Measure the narrowest point on your route before you choose.
Tub capacity against the pour
Sixteen cubic feet is a little under 0.6 cubic yards, so a nine yard truck is roughly sixteen buggy trips. Time each trip realistically, including the wait at the chute and the dump, because concrete does not wait. If the run is long or the slab is large, two buggies and two operators beat one buggy working twice as hard.
Ground and access rule it in or out
Buggies handle compacted gravel, plywood runs and slabs well. Soft mud, deep sand and anything steeper than a gentle ramp they do not. Rubber tracks are available on some fleet machines for soft ground and cost more. Where the route crosses finished work, lay plywood, because a loaded buggy is heavy and its tires mark.
What the counter will ask you
Whether it is gas or electric, because electric buggies exist for indoor pours where exhaust is a problem and are hired less often. Whether you want it delivered, which is $75 to $150 round trip. And whether the hire is a day or a week, since a week is usually about three day rates and most pours want the machine for two or three days.
Questions people ask about georgia buggy rental
How much concrete does a georgia buggy hold?
The standard fleet tub is 16 cubic feet, a little under 0.6 cubic yards, which is roughly twelve wheelbarrow loads. Larger ride-on units reach 21 cubic feet. Do not fill above the rated volume with wet concrete; the weight, not the space, is the limit.
Can one person run a buggy pour?
For a small pour with a short haul, yes. For anything past a few yards you want a second person at the chute and someone placing at the far end, because the buggy only pays for itself if it never waits.
Is it worth renting for a small slab?
If the truck can reach the forms, no. If the pour is behind a house, through a gate or up a slope, one day's hire at $100 to $180 will usually cost less than the extra labour hours it removes.