I heard that the biggest pumps will be sold at this auction.

The concrete pump trucks being sold in the Atlanta auction are the last 37 concrete pump trucks in a fleet of more than 160 concrete pump trucks that were sold in Ritchie Bros. unreserved auctions from May to June 2009 in Forth Worth, Orlando, Nashville and Houston as part of a complete dispersal of the former assets of Pumpco Inc., a concrete pumping service company with operations throughout the Southern and Southeastern United States.

"Buyers in the market for one of these concrete pump trucks should take advantage of the large inventory we'll have in our Atlanta unreserved auction and buy now," said Darrin Hogeboom, Regional Manager, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers. "It's a great opportunity to bid on a large grouping of concrete pump trucks all in one place at one time.

yes there are two 65m pumps there. there are two guys down there demoing pumps this week before the auction. lots of highrise equipment to. seven placing booms and pedistals,etc....

After attending all but one of these auctions, it is obvious that Ritchie Bros. bought these pumps outright. I did not see any other piece of equipment worked as hard as all these pumps. They would milk it to the last dollar.

I have heard that one of the 60M pumps (nicknamed "killer") has tipped over 7 times!

Watch out for that one.

 Shewy

You made me laugh - then think...

It's too bad a machine carries that kind of nickname.  The machine didn't tip itself over...especially that many times - if the number is even accurate.  I think the operator(s)  should get  the nicknames--- like: 'Retard'...or 'Flipper'..or 'the Big Hurt'...or (insert whatever nickname you have here)

I ran an old Thomsen when I started pumping and the owner demonstrated with a chunk of 2X4 why you don't reach in the flapper box while washing out.  He told me he had an operator chop his arm off by reaching in the box.  Anyhoo - the pump didn't get a nickname...'Lefty' did...

Raymond 

There has been more limbs lost in flapper,gate vales than I care to think.

Well someone at rbauctions was all over this deal from conception.It has worked so far for them,lets see what the next industry will be.Here in our area Dayton-Roller has been selling off small business equipment by the truckload,they also do internet only auctions.

Time will tell "we ain't seen nothing yet"

7 times very accurate! Raymond, 99% of the time that is true. This pump however is the 1%.

7 times is accurate and heres tha kicker..... it was with 4 different operators. that pump has bad karma if you ask me. oh yea and they occured in 2 different states...

Or could it be a design flaw or a piece of shit?  If I had a pump flip over more than once I would have every engineer that builds this brand at my shop to prove to me this would never ever happen again.  No possible way this was operator error.  Has to be a poorly designed pump and should be hauled to the scrap yard rather than sold to another company.  Everyone preaches about safety but lets this garbage go out and hurt or kill another person.  Absolutely shameful to me.

That was just PUMPCO PROTOCOL. Flip it back on it's wheels,FIRE the operator to make everyone think it was his FAULT and send it back out again with someone else. Oh yeah , and if the MULE doesn't want to pull the WAGON, then we were told that THEY would just get another MULE. That's what management referred to their operators as, monkeys and mules. It was a GREAT environment for lawsuits. I'm sure there are some WIDOWS who are still wondering why their husband's and father's had to DIE that day!! You can blame it on the OPERATOR all day long,you can blame the EQUIPMENT if you like, however ,when there is a recurring problem you must look to who HIRES those unqualified operators and who sends out that FAULTY equipment. That would be the Manager, who is not properly managing his responsibility of making sure SAFETY is his FIRST PRIORITY!!

Was it always the same issue that turned killer over? Lets all hope that it is sold to someone in another country like that Tor 61 they had in miami.

Names can sure ruin good people.I ran a machine (big boom) that has that dubious honor.It was a great machine but operator error.I wouldn't hesitate to run it again,it's a people thing.