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Here, a concrete transport truck is feeding concrete to a concrete pumper, which is pumping it to where a slab is being poured. Pumping concrete into aluminium concrete formwork in Mexico. A concrete pump is a machine used for transferring liquid concrete by pumping. There are different types of concrete pumps.
Putzmeister was founded by Karl Schlecht in 1958. [3] Schlecht designed a mortar machine based on his diploma thesis at the University of Stuttgart. [4]In 1986, Putzmeister 52Z's were used in the Chernobyl nuclear accident, pumping over 300,000 m 3 (390,000 cu yd) of concrete to entomb reactor number 4, setting a world record at the time for volume pumping.
Concrete pumps have a multi-stage folding boom pivoted near the center of the truck and a hopper at the rear to load the pump. The pump itself is the load and the truck always operates at maximum weight. In transit the boom is folded front to rear. In use the pump uses outriggers and the boom unfolds forward over the cab or to either side.
FJM Concrete Pumping employed the concrete truck driver who struck a Hays school district bus and a passenger vehicle on March 22.
The truck appears to be a concrete pump truck, a type of construction vehicle equipped with a retractable concrete pumping boom. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
If the truck cannot get close enough to the site to use the chutes, the concrete may be discharged into a concrete pump, connected to a flexible hose, or onto a conveyor belt which can be extended some distance (typically ten or more metres). A pump provides the means to move the material to precise locations, multi-floor buildings, and other ...
Schwing Concrete pump. The Schwing Group was founded as a medium-sized enterprise on 17 March 1934, by Friedrich Wilhelm Schwing (* 1909; † 1992), a locksmith from Wanne-Eickel. In 1957, Schwing built the world's first oil-hydraulic two-cylinder concrete pump. Starting in 1964, the company also built the first large concrete mixers.
Concrete pumps have a multi-stage folding boom pivoted near the center of the truck and a hopper at the rear to load the pump. The pump itself is the load and the truck always operates at maximum weight. In transit the boom is folded front to rear. In use the pump uses outriggers and the boom unfolds forward over the cab or to either side.