I would like to see the competition of pouring a rooftop. 3-4 stories up. I have found certain boom Designs cater to that job better. We are getting into that a lot more in our market now. I have been agricultural side with the big booms but now the other is popping up around us.
@@benjaminfooter6564 Always gotta be that one dick-head in the comments!!!!!! (I received your text earlier, just laying on the sofa here dead with the flu).
It’s something I’ve typically stayed away from as rules and regulations differ so much from one area to the next. Last thing I want to inadvertently do is misguide someone into a potentially dangerous situation. I’m hoping my explanation and attached information at the start of the video conveyed that message appropriately. Powerline safety is definitely something which can never to discussed/revisited/refreshed enough. Glad you like it Randy.
That’s a very loaded topic with a ton of variables. My opinion: -bentonite: highest rate of success, but contaminates the first bit of concrete to come through the hose to the point where it cannot be used in the pour area and must be disposed of. -bagged grout/mortar mix: slightly lower rate of success (in my experience with our mixes here locally) but does not ruin the first bit of concrete to come through the hose and in many cases can be primed directly into the pour area. -gel type primers: never had much success with them for priming through rubber hose (once again, could be more to do with the specific mixes in our area as the reason why they have not been an effective priming agent us).
We’re working on putting together a head-to-head Putzmeister 38-5 vs Alliance 38-5 video with another buddy of ours in the next couple of weeks here. Should be a good one.
Hey Scott I hope you're having a good week and I hope everybody else up there is too looks like it's pretty warm up there try to stay cool guys take care
I know I know this is an old video but how come on the self-leveling concrete with the heating tubes underneath it you guys can't travel it even though it gets tile on it is it because the tile needs a rough surface to grab to
I was commenting to the boys today that the ready mix supplier seems to be going heavier and heavier with the stone in our mixes. God forbid that we someday have to endure the cruel and unusual punishment of stepping it up to 2.5” line. 😂😂😂
Bit of a double-edged sword however in that of we didn’t have these small line friendly mixes, we may also not have the guys running around still pumping jobs for 500 bucks!
@@canadianconcretepumper1979 the fact that you guys do everything from small residential to large commercial definitely keeps it interesting. Do your operators switch machines a lot? I.e a guy running the 56/57 might run the 38-5/39 or that smaller boom you have? I think it was a 26?
@@bowenike so we do try to keep guys primarily to the same machine, but in this business with eternally someone on holidays/sick/needing to be off early, there is most definitely some link jumping which takes place.we try our best to minimize it, but as you mentioned, with the braid variety of work we do, it can be difficult.
im 22 just started 3 weeks ago, its a lot to take in. im grateful for the hard working jobs i previously worked to allow me to really take in how nice this line of work really is. i have not been this excited about a job in years, i want it to work out so bad. i noticed its more mentally exhausting than physically at times. ive been watching many videos like this one and even joined a few groups. i appreciate this video as im just starting out. greetings from upstate new york 🤝
Hey Piet!!!! This was definitely one of the more enjoyable jobs which I’ve been part of recently. Always feels good to come back and see the final product looking as it did here.
In Poland we only prime it with water, gogles half filled with water and start pumping. Then 10 sec later honk the driver to start pouring concrete, works everytime
This PSA is brought to you by quite possibly the most interesting pump operator in the world 🌎 I always get my guys to check hose ends, very important 👌
That’s not bad have you ever seen inside a water main pipe HAH! It’s not the rust in the tank it’s the nasty water when you steal it from the mixers. Many times recycled water with chemicals or swamp water
How busy is it up there Scott is the economy doing pretty good up there where it would be worth me getting my passport and coming up there for a while and working
It has slowed significantly here in the last couple of months. Our current federal government has done seemingly everything in their power to slow the economy. I suspect that things will not pick back up until at least fall of 2025, when hopefully the current clown-show in office is not re-elected.
I don't know who would want to drink dirty water like that to begin with there's plenty of places to go get something fresh to drink all the time anyways
Look like you got on a little late there letting it tied up too much is that your company Scott doing a slab or who what company was that that was running those machines on that job
Hi, I want to say I really enjoy your channel. I am a old pioneer in concrete pumping. I started with something you may have never heard of the Thompsen 640 lattice booms we had to put these together in the morning and break it down to travel home. I love your content on your channel how you take a person from the yard to the job site setting up doing the pour and going through the cleanup. You remind me of myself as I had a love for concrete pumping as well. At the time I gave it up I had around 25 years into it. My reason that I wanted to touch base with you is as much as I loved concrete pumping, I had to give it up because work was always very spotty very seldom could you have a full week of work. This was in San Diego back in 80s I had to give it up as my dad was always telling me you need to get a real job. But I would not listen because I loved it so much, I wish I could have made a good living at it, things would have been different as I left pumping and joined the carpenters where I then started to work steadier. I moved to the pacific northwest and tried pumping here and work was even slower I just shake my head and wish I could have worked with the economy of today. When I say pioneering, I mean that as when we would pull up on a job no one knew anything about pump designed concrete mixes. At the end of a pour after getting plugged 10 to 15 times I could not back the pump up as the pile of concrete was so high that you could not back the pump up. the last rigs that I ran was the Thompsen 2001 Whitman and finally the Schwing 42 meter. 28 and 36m Still to this day I still like to see the big machines pump It has come a long way from the 35 yard an hour pumps at best, when I started You are one of the best pump men, I have ever seen Now at 73 years of age I still follow pumping and have a 28m 36m 42m model pumps just like a kid. Keep up the great content and I have learned a lot but probably will never use it in this lifetime. I still get the concrete Pumping and Placing magazine thanks again John May Yes it was almost starving to death trying to do this for a living. OH, one more thing, every pump contractor were thieves. I had Dwain Perin of American Concrete Pumping tell me that if he could screw every operator out of his overtime, he could make a payment on one of his pumps at the end of the month. Every company would not pay you to work on the equipment they said it is your responsibility and that way you would work. Dwain said as I told him once that I did not even get a thank you for rebuilding the boom pipe and staying up all night for a 600-yard pour He said he has over 30 Fing machines going out of the yard every say and do you think I have the time to shake every man's hand? One thing that does kind of scar me is seeing one operator on these big pumps. What happens if something goes wrong? We were always supplied with as oiler.
That’s an amazing history and past!!! My father and uncle first got into concrete like back in the 70’s with some of the very early Thompson equipment also. I could not agree with you more in terms of having two operators on the bigger machines. There’s just so much going on with these things, especially now with what is required for a safe setup. I truly believe that we will need to start implementing a second operator on these big-booms, or no one is going to want to operate them (a situation which we are already seeing in our market here). Really appreciate you sharing your story here with us 🙏🙏🙏
I like how the trucks are coming out with that that makes it a little easier to know how much is left in the hopper or left in the drum all that I like it's a good idea
I do like the concept, but I feel like their a quite a few variables which the drivers have to be in tune with for it to read accurately. Like anything, I suppose it’s a bit of a learning curve.
Hey Scott what happened to the video that you guys were making of who had the cleanest Hopper I ain't seen that result yet so we can judge on who had to clean his Hopper
I think we need to re-visit the topic in a long-format video, or possibly an upcoming livestream . The short version did not quite generate the conclusive results we had hoped for.
Hey boss what do I do if it gets stuck in the hose I was line pumping today and saw that muddy feet used reverse to also suck in the ball but it got stuck a little over half way down the last hose I’m gonna try a long rebar but lmk if you’ve been In That situation
What I usually do when boys really jammed in there is fill the hopper with water back at the yard, connect up the hose, and push it out. Be very careful doing this and have the end of the hose dilly secured and not aimed at anything critical (eg: humans).
one of the biggest pours I did was the Auditorium walls of the theater in Woodwards tower Vancouver them's where some thick walls it was like we where building a Bomb shelter ..
