We plugged on the prime out which blew the 6 to 5 reducer. When the the 6 to 5 reducer blew it made it where we couldn’t clean our boom out by sucking a sponge back. So we had to hustle and use air to clean out.
Before folding up and finding the washout, Pull the 45 elbow off the end of the 6-5 reducer. Shove a ball in the deck and put your blowout cap on. Blow the whole boom at once right into whatever you were pouring. If you don’t get any movement, break the elbows between 2-3 and blow both ways. At least then you narrow down where the plug is if there is one. Always idle the truck up all the way so it builds air as fast as possible. That’s a shit day! I feel for ya.
I like the duck quacks!!! There would be a lot more of them if it was me. Lol. I try not to but sometimes those situations can get to you, great video and great team work. See yall next time
Thanks for sharing. Everyone has days like this. But you handled it like a professional. Anything man made will break. Just have to be prepared for when it's going to happen. Been on huge EPA clean up for week and a half. Been tough because someone else started it and made a mess out of it. Ended up repairing tank and pouring over 15,000 yards of concrete in ring around tank 8 inches thick and huge pond 6 inches think and ditches 6 inches think. Dump site 25 miles away. So just now doing extra work replacing asphalt and extra building slab and walls then done. So been working around the clock to beat the hurricane season. But great video
That's what its supposed to be all videos about concrete pumps....the good and the worst days Best regards from Romania I have learn allot from your videos I am concrete pump operator here
The best part is when you get everything cleaned out, you look around & realize how much of a shithouse mess the pump is. Hell, I've had concrete on the top of my transmission. Glad you got it cleaned out.
Have you thought of keeping an electric pressure washer on the truck? We use a 3000W inverter, 40a dc/dc converter, and it's own battery (to not fry the alternator). Nothing like getting hot mud off quick and avoid the acid. It does wonders on the hopper and uses a fraction of the water vs. a hose.
bout time you show the real hustle....here lately its just been a pain to pump anything...plant can never get the mix right on top of it being super hot at 6 am
the beauty of having a 5" blowout cap, pull the reducer, put your sponge in, open the back end and put the air to it. cant imagine what kind of hell that must be in that texas heat, but a little ass kicking now is better than writing the check for all that boom pipe (even though you already bought new stuff)
HighTQCummins yeah we couldn’t get air to push the plug. That’s why we started opening it all up. But yes It’s all new now. Should be able to see in a couple of videos.
Hey buddy, this inspired me to special order a 6 - 5 reducer hose with HD ends and the exact length required. (we've got two identical 34 meter Schwing pumps. This baby is just a back up. Always on stand by waiting for one of those tapered pipes to screw up lol. ( I chose to go with a back up hose and not a pipe for flexibility, just to get the sponge pulled back quickly.
When the days starts good then turns bad and cost more money than you would of made plus. Good to have a back up place to buy parts now as appose to being shut down for a day or more. Good job on saving the other pipes.
I think at some point it will happen to all of us. I have personally blew out the 6x6. It didn’t even flap open. It had a solid piece come off of it. Not fun
A video of how you clean that truck would be very informative. Sorry you guys got the horns of the bull. I also have found new repair sources when the chips are down, funny how that works.
There has to be some type of how many hrs to change all the wear parts. Wow you were right about the time to change them. That job you did in morning was the limit on that pipe. Get that blood pumping ehe all that money getting hard in yr pipes.
That's crazy that exact scenario happened to me the other week. The mechanic said new pipe was ordered for my pump and a few days later the 5 to 6 blew out on prime out. But it separated it into two separate pieces. There was like a 2" gap from the clamp to the pipe.
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping Sir I just watched your video and I wanted to let you know that there is an easier way to clean your pipes when this happens take your hammer and Hammer the whole back into place as best you can and then take a grocery sack trash bag put that over the rip in the pipe and duct tape the living shit out of it and then drop the reducer they're at the tip hose and put your ball in there and put the pump in Reverse DO NOT STROKE FORWARD or you will just blow a hole right where you duct tape it this is strictly to get your pipes cleaned so that you can wash out this is not to finish the job It will not take the ball back immediately but every stroke that you take in reverse is sucking the air out of that and I promise you it will take the ball back if that is airtight and just so that you know if you were going to use a blowout cap with air to clean your pump say for instance if that pipe was completely blown in half you were not able to get an airtight seal on it for some reason you don't need to go Section by section just nock off the 45° elbow right there at the deck pipe and put your ball in there and put your blowout cap on right there it will blow the entire boom clean instead of doing section by section The only time that I have seen that you cannot seal a pipe with i trash bag and duct tape to get cleaned out is if you blow a hole in your turret pipe because there is no way to get to that to tape it up and if that happens and believe me it will if you pump long enough you put one ball in your deck pipe and put that reverse to clean it back to the hopper and then put the other ball in your first elbow coming out of the torrid and put a blow out cap on it and blow it out with air that is the only time that I have had to use air to clean the pump or if the pump itself actually breaks down I am by no means criticizing you you did a great job in getting your pump clean I just wanted to let you know that there's an easier and safer way to do it I hope this helps L. Lucky
How do you recover in time before the concrete dries from the cement truck? What do they do when they cannot offload at the jobsite??? How does that exception process normally unfold?
Would like to see you make some handy platforms at the elbows that need occasional changing, so you don't need to tightrope on pipes. Just sayin.. a fall or slip could put you out of commission, worse than a 5-6 pipe blow-out.
Rotate and the curves and pipes daily , what a Damn mess 👣 fortunately Not over the cab of the truck . the chain is as strong as the weakest link .😅👨🔧❤️
Oh that sucks. My kinda luck. At least it didn’t involve a rivet buster. Got 50 gallons of HD acid if you want some. Will pull those splatters right off. Welcome to some
I whould have put the blowout cap on the end of the boom and blown it back to the Hopper before I whould have folded up and moved and clean up the concrete on the road after lot easier to clean sum mud off the road then have a boom party and wit how HOT it is in TEXAS five mins can make big difference.
I think after this, you should give that poor Truck a serious bath and then a TLE (Tender Loving Enema) just to be sure all it's lines are nice and clear... After all, a Constipated Concrete Pumper is NOT a happy camper... And if it ain't happy, ain't NOBODY happy...
You could of saved time, but just a framing the boom and taking the pipe that blew out off and attaching the blow off cap to the straight pipe and blew the concrete out through the tip all in one shot.
I think when you’re working close to the truck you might wear some hearing protection. Oh and carry some duct tape in the tool box. Duct tape fixes everything 😀
Pressure washer down, let her dry and spray it with some concrete dissolver, rinse and repeat. I would call that a boom parting, if it wasn't for that dam plug, could have blew it all down. But you guys saved her! Good job done!
Bill Beck No, if it has a lot of coarse sand in it you’ll never get it mixed enough. Concrete companies don’t understand what man sand does to our equipment and to the finish of the concrete. They just know it’s cheap filler and it helps their bottom line. I will run my mouth about that till hell want haven it anymore.
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping it's all about expirience and to get it you have to pay the price of trouble and hard work, and by the time when you now every thing about pumping you wish to retire and you are to old for pumping
