Health & Safety in bygone days
rockstar 09-20-2012
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Could you see this happening today?  You turn up on site with a 'Mark Thompson' flapper valve concrete pump, which had a self assembly boom. i.e. you had to assemble the boom on site.  These photo's where taken arround 1968 featuring Raymond Phillips one of the UK's first concrete pump operators and still doing it today... But not on a one of these!
Todd 09-20-2012
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please post more of these old pictures I love to see them. Here is a link you might like, scroll down.

 

http://www.concretepumping.com/dictionary/index.php?title=Richard_Bennett_and_Marvin_Bennett_Interview_1954_to_1976
thinksnow 09-20-2012
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that is so cool cant wait 30yrs from now and looking back on our pumps now