The old Transcrete America I ran p60 size had all hydraulic outriggers. I always put them all down, for long pushes of hose for washout I’d unhook and drop my front end almost to floor 👍🏽👍🏽
That’s a nice feature. We have a Schwing high-rise pump which has hydraulic outriggers at each corner and it makes things much easier. It’s a bit of a dick-around drop the third outrigger on this unit.
So you’re most definitely not the first person which I’ve heard that same sentiment from. I would LOVE to see a VSP pump unit mounted to one of these little NRR Isuzu’s.
do you guys have issues pumping from long ranges? my boss has a 1004 and it seems like the controller disconnects. definitely would have disconnected in this pour and would have to sit where you put the pumper caddy at
Definitely sounds like something funky is going on with yours. We’ve seen great results in terms of range with this Putz/HBC transmitter. A job I posted a few weeks ago we were 350’ from the pump unit and about 50’ below grade. Never dropped out once. Perhaps an antenna or grounding issue???
I drop the front leg. I'm no expert, but any movement I can keep off my truck or equipment is saving me *some* amount of wear and tear. Takes me 2 seconds, why the heck not. Maybe one day when I'm rich ill just leave it hooked up! ;)
I tend to agree with you. The third leg on this unit is a bit of a dick-around, but definitely stabilized the machine and keeps all that surge away from the truck chassis.
It looks like a complete unit what would it to cut off the hitch and wheels and weld it to the bed ( of ur 2axle truck with water tank and water hose ) ?
To truck mount these units you really want them built on a skid from factory. Doing so allows for angling the drive cylinders in relation to the rest of the pump unit as such that they clear the drive axles of the chassis and the hopper still sits as low as possible. If you’ve ever noticed that a good amount of truck mounted units have the hopper sitting a mile in the air, and/or overhangs the drive axle by a mile, it’s because they likely just took a standard trailer setup and dropped it onto a truck. Trust me though, we have definitely been thinking of if there’s a feasible way to do with this pump unit exactly what you mention. 😁😁😁
@@JSiembor was awhile ago now, but from why I recall, it was around a 3-4. Turning it up higher would not affect the actual output much as on a long push like this, we were pretty much maxed out on horsepower.
