WHATS THE METHOD OF INSTALLING A SHUTOFF BUTTON ON THE REAR OF A OLDER SCHWING BOOM? NEED TO GIVE MIXER DRIVERS WAY TO SHUT HER OFF IN EMERGENCY. I BLEW A HOSE THE OTHER DAY AND IT WOULD OF BEEN BETTER IF THEY HAD BEEN ABLE TO STOP IT INSTANTLY. PUMPS A 1985 1200. THANKS

That sounds like a very good idea.

I would call Schwing Service people for the absolute best answer.

Wow thats is the dumbest thing i have ever heard, wait till you have an outrigger sinking in the ground and as you try to swing off of it a mixer driver pushes your e-stop and yells hey your outrigger is sinking. with no control you cant do anything but watch your pump fall over thanks to the mixer driver pushing the e-stop and preventing you from swinging the boom over to the other side. Or what about when you are flat out with a big boom and the driver shuts your pump off because he is out and now as the concrete drains out of the tip it rises 10 ft and rains concrete down on everyone that is working around the hose. The sign on the truck says stay off the truck while in operation. That goes for the mixer driver

GEE ROOK.  ITS STANDERD ON ALL NEWER PUMPS I BELIEVE. I CERTANLY WANT TO PUT IT ON MY OLDER TRUCK, MY MANUAL SAYS IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE BUT ITS NOT.  HERES A EXAMPLE FOR YOU, IF YOU BLOW HYDROLIC LINE TO ROCK VALVE OR PUMP CYLINDER WHILE YOUR AWAY FROM THE REAR OF TRUCK (90% OF THE TIME) HOW QUICK DO YOU THINK SHE'LL DUMP FLUID?

IF YOU BLOW HOSE GOING TO BOOM GUAGES YOU LOOSE BOOM FUNCTION AND THROTLE CONTROL BOTH. IF DRIVER SEES THIS BEFORE YOU KNOW OR CAN FIGURE OUT WHY BOOM QUIT MOVING, AND MAYBE RUN DOWN FROM 2ND OR 3RD FLOOR POUR IT MIGHT SAVE A BIG MESS.

  SORRY YOU THOUGH SO LITTLE OF SUBJECT. 

LOL The new pumps have so many E-stops on them now it takes an hour to figure out which one is on.

Well when I ran pump I had an air horn, very loud. And a sign very visible, with a pull chain at the rear of the machine on the hopper, infront of God. They still ran up the steps to the main panel and beeped the electric horn. So give her due diligence and try it. I would rather wire a horn on my last section were I could hear it, and have a dummy hammer to hit them before they hit my electric horn, hehehe Schwing is bad for this now get the machine in nuetral and reset if they hit the e-stop hmm I know were you are comming from.

An air horn is a good plan. WAY better than the puny horn on most pumps. No excuse to not hear an air horn. Even the new Mack fan isn't loud enough to drowned it out  ;~)

I love the air horn....can always be heard, I tell the drivers, "got a problem, blow the horn".

I am thinking of going  walkie talkies now just for the larger machines attached to a safe box, it may well be worth comunication factor standind 11-12 stories up.

A company that I used to work for was doing a placing boom job. We had radios, we had spare batt's we had chargers. While blowing out one evening/morning one of the radios lost power. Bad Battery? Tired, too many hours operator didn't change the battery? Didn't understand the last instruction given?

I don't know to this day; not really.

Two people were injured in the process, neither real extensively (lucky).

I still like radios, I use Motorola "racing radios" Crewchief headsets the whole bit. They are very good but..... ya never know! ;~)

I am starting to like this forum LOL thanks guys it is a definet then I will equipt my large machines, the small ones may also get them.

Hi I have a 1990 28 meter schwing with a detachable boom setup it has an estop button but guess what it only stops the boom.  You have to step up on the pump and pull the handle in reverse to stop pump.  The newer pumps have estop that stop everything and have to be reset what a pain in the ass. how about having a pump only stop button that does not have to be reset?  I found these really loud eletric horns http://www.wolo-mfg.com/air.htm this is the one the guy recommended.  It draws to much power to mount on boom so i mounted at turret and it works great.  Looking to add relay switch from battery to get more amps so I can mount on boom just to busy right now.

What about the green e-stop looking button that blows your horn. How many people have that and how hard is it to put on???

Easy to put on just 12 volt swicth and horn.  I can't live without mine.