Rural concreting — Franklin & north Waikato
The digger and the pour, same phone call.
We own the earthworks. Site cut, hardfill and concrete under one price, one crew and one point of contact.
The problem
Two contractors. One slab.
Almost every rural pour needs a digger before it needs a truck. Site cut, hardfill, drainage. So the job gets split - one contractor for the ground, another for the concrete -and you carry the gap between them. Two site visits to arrange. Two weather windows to line up. Two invoices. And when the base isn't right, two people telling you it was the other one's job.
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Subcontractors between the site cut and the finished slab.
1.2–5t
Excavators on our own books, plus tractors and tippers.
7 days
Before you can walk on it. 28 days before you load it.
The method
Four steps. Same crew on all of them.
01 Cut
We strip and cut to level with our own machines, and cart the spoil. Soft spots get found now, not after the boxing is up.
02 Base
Hardfill in, compacted properly, drainage where the ground needs it. The base is what decides whether the slab lasts.
03 Pour
Boxed, steel set and chaired, concrete placed and finished to suit the job — broomed, grooved or floated.
04 Cure
Joints cut so the slab cracks where we decide. Site left tidy, and a written date for when you can load it.
The work
What we pour.
Most of it is dairy. All of it takes machinery, stock or both, so it gets built to carry weight rather than to look tidy in a photo.
DAIRY
Feed & stand-off pads
Formed, drained and grooved, with effluent falls run to your existing system.
LIFESTYLE
Driveways & house pads
Rural driveways, entranceways, shed pads and paths on lifestyle blocks.
WATER
Trough bases & sumps
Small pours done properly — trough surrounds, sump collars, pump and tank pads.
DAIRY
Yards & extensions
New cow yards, extensions and backing gate pads, poured to shed water.
BUILDINGS
Shed & implement floors
Reinforced slabs to spec — hardfill, polythene, mesh and pour by the one crew.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Culvert headwalls
Headwalls and wingwalls, formed on site and tied into the existing run.
DAIRY
Race entries & crossings
Concrete entries and crossings that stop the pugging where the stock bank up.
BUILDINGS
Calf & woolshed floors
Finishes that wash down and drain, in the window between seasons.
FEED
Silage bunkers
Floors and panel footings, sized to your wagon rather than to a standard drawing.
If your job isn't on the list, ring anyway.
Who we work with
Anyone who needs ground that carries weight.
Dairy farms
Pads, yards, bunkers and race work, scheduled around milking and the shoulder seasons.
Rural builders
Slabs and footings on shed and house builds, with the site prep already handled.
Drystock, sheep & beef
Shed floors, trough bases, crossings and hardstand where the mud costs you time.
Ag contractors
Bunker floors and wash-down areas for operations running their own gear.
Lifestyle blocks
Driveways, shed pads and entranceways, on sites where access is tighter and finish matters more.
Schools, halls & marae
Community jobs — paths, pads and access, priced straight.
About
Family owned, based in Franklin.
Rural Concrete is part of Counties EQ, a family-owned group that does environmental and civil contracting across Franklin and the north Waikato. The earthmoving gear is ours, the crew is ours, and the directors answer the phone. Same faces on site every visit — which matters more on a farm than it does anywhere else, because you are going to see us again.
Get a price
Stop coordinating two contractors.
Tell us roughly what you need. We'll come out, walk the site with you, and put one written price on the whole job — ground and concrete.
Straight answers.
Questions we get asked.
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Light foot traffic at about seven days. Stock and machinery at 28 days, when the slab has full strength. We give you the date in writing at handover.
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We arrange and manage supply, and it’s in the price. If you have your own arrangement with a plant, we’ll work to it.
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That’s the point of us. Site cut, hardfill, drainage and the pour under one price and one crew.
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No, but small pours carry a call-out because the truck and crew still have to travel. If batching two jobs together saves you money, we’ll say so.
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Auckland, north Waikato and further south/north by arrangement