This is at least for me the best video of a tipped pump recovery i've ever seen.. VASA.. Isn't this sweden?? You know them??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItSslu1-npw

Looked to me like someone was hanging too many hoses of of that thing. look at the hose of the tip as they lift lift the pump up. It looks like it goes a long ways.....

Dipstick I dont know that operator , he is in the Stockholm area... I'am in Gothenburg . It was not to long endhose , last 90 bend , air-cuff "model Faber" reducer 5"-4" and a 4-5 meter endhose. All was hanging in the safetywire after they had blew out the mud with air . Nearly all pump in Sweden runs with that equipment . Mail ROBATOR (Heidelberg) and ask why it happend , I was not there but talked to the boom-inspector and he explaind why but it best to hear it from the operator . It was no damage to the pump it was pumping after the inspection . The pump was 1-2 weeks old , I looked at it just before delivery, it was a nice pump !

Isn't it amazing that the contractor could not close the lane in the road in order to fully extend all four outriggers before the pour began, but they could close the road for the crane to upright the pump after it turned over. 

I have yet to see a pump in twenty years of pumping turn over when the pump is properly set up with all four outriggers out, with the proper dunnage under ALL the outriggers.

I am of the opinion that at some point we, as safe operators, should tell these contractors that, either make room for us to safely 100% set these machines up, or get a freakin wheel-borrow to place your mud.

This accident could have been easily prevented.

I am not picking on this guy Many, I dont know the company or the operator.  But i'll guarentee that if all four outriggers were out, and proper dunnage was placed, the pump would not have turned over.

I have had the misfortune of a tower crane hitting my pump while I was pumping concrete on the fifth floor of the Tampa parking garage.  I was looking down at the pump when it hit.  I assure you that if I would have been shortrigged, the whole pump would have gone over.  It knocked the right riggers out of thier pads, drug a finisher about ten feet across the slab, and didn't go over.

This is why, since that day, I personally will NEVER shortrig a pump.  I have told many contractors that if they dont have room for me to set up properly, then I ain't pumping your concrete.

I had rather be known as that as#$%^ who made it difficult to get the job done right, than that idiot who didn't set the pump up properly and hurt or killed someone.

"But i'll guarentee that if all four outriggers were out, and proper dunnage was placed, the pump would not have turned over." BigStick that statement is not 100% true , some time Mother Nature change the plan , In My case the ground-water level was changing quickly , despite a thorough Geotechnical studie.... It didn' helped with timber-mat under all outriggers . The only thing that had worked that day was a barge ! I have almost been out for the same thing one more time before but then it was a pile driver who was setting sheetmetal and hit the main waterline to Gothenburg ! But then I saw it happend and standing on the ground and quickly fold down the boom (Schwing 23-4) little quicker than a Putz 46-5 and standing on a deck and didn't see the water coming...,

I have worked for that company before i started my own pumpcompany, and i can tell you that every pumpoperator are forced by the employer to follow every safetyrules or they get a warning - and to many warnings leads to get fired. So i can tell you that you never in the world find one more pumpcompany that are so stricktly to follow every safetyrule - They are known as a safetycompany and it´s a very good company to work for. This accident happends in Uppsala (120 km N from Stockholm) and i have no idea why it happends, and i will never know why because the company will never tell me. This accident is not so good for their image and i think they want to silent down the incident.  

i agree with bigstick that its amazing that when a crane come on site the builder makes sure that there is plenty of room for it.But when a pump rocks up you can bet any money that 80% of the time there is shit in the way.