greenguy | 07-28-2013 | comment profile send pm notify |
Depending on the transmitter, its either done with a teleteach battery or the buttons on the side of your remote transmitter. If you press and hold both plus and minus buttons with the power switch off, and then turn it on while holding them down, the remote will enter programming mode where the green led flashes at double speed. You will have to set min speed and max speed for each direction of each cylinder as well as slew in both snail and rabbit. Just keep in mind that you should have each joystick in max position to set max speed and in min position (boom/outrigger valve just activated) to set min speed. Trying to set an intermediate speed at half stick is pointless and throws everything off. When everything works how you want turn the remote power switch off and everything is saved. |
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Bill @ TNT | 07-29-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Thank you you for your reply. I did some searching online and found that inside the receiver is 2 byttons. I got the boom to adjust to how my operator was comfortable with it. Once again, thank you very much |
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putz63 | 07-29-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Just think if you actually charged for pumping, Nah just keep leaving all that money on the table. Enought balls to buy a pump but not enough balls to charge for it!!! |
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Mister_Perkins | 07-29-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed putz.... lol |
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S Woodbridge | 07-29-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Naw, Putz63 is right. I know both sides of the scenario as I used to be in business for myself. Someone who is in business for themselvs and doesnt charge enough. (1) shoots themselvs in the foot (2) ruins the prices for years to come. (3) will not be able to keep there equipement up to "professional standards"" (4) will not be in business for more than a couple years maybe longer who knows (2-7 years max)
best of luck - bye for now |
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Mister_Perkins | 07-29-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
dude is just asking how to adjust a boom. how is he ruining pumping for everyone? ?! am I out of the loop or somethin? |
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putz63 | 07-29-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Sorry for the out of place of rant. Noting personal just got a one pump chump quote in front of me....stupid... Who the hell don't charge for travel.... Do the pumps fly to the jobs, what about permits,fuel, operator wages, etc... Dammit I am getting mad again!!!! |
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Dipstick | 07-30-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Always funn to see how pissed someone can get when he missed out on a job because he was to expensive.. |
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putz63 | 07-30-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Actually mr cheap whore forgot to get trip permits as was not able to cover the pour. So the contractor had to cancel till Saturday where he will be paying us and his crew overtime..... So I ask you.. Is it price or cost...... Or price is higher but our cost is cheaper....once you learn the difference you can sell.... |
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JoelDLong | 07-30-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Is it possible that a one pump "chump" could pump a little cheaper than than the great b boner? In theory...if I owned so 600 pumps and actually had enough work for 200 of them and the repo company had laid claim to 300...I would have to charge roughly about double everyone else's rates on my 200 use able pumps to help cover the payments on my other pumps and satisfy my other overhead... unless I perhaps had filed a legal motion to restructure "not pay" my debts and kept on rolling over the little man. Either way...just thinking about the folks living in those glass house shouldn't get in a real habit of throwing stones. |
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putz63 | 07-31-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Well in my house, we charge to make money. Also since we pay at the top, provide 401k and Insurance. What the brain trust does in wash is not my control. My main focus is the operators who get up at all hrs for me to go pump concrete to provide for their family.. If you have a problem with the way we conduct business please call our CEO and tell him how you could do so much better!! |
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Beast | 07-31-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Having been on both sides , lets say this , the one pump guy has way less overhead , he pays himself thats it , not a office full of employees, Is it aggravating that you can't charge the same as him ? yes , Is it a reason to attack him on a public forum ? Lets just say this , that company you work for was/is a plague to this industry , you may be doing things the right way , but as a whole your company didnt , if so, they wouldnt have got in the predicament they got themselves in , I have to agree with the terminology used earlier, " dont throw stones, when you live in a glass house" , your company has done far worse things in other areas , and if you don't like the way one pump chump guy operates , just put him out of business, isn't that the way its done over there ? |
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FunnyBoom | 07-31-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Im a firm believer that in our industry we should sell be service, not by price. We have way too many companies out there both small and large flat rating or cutting throats so bad that it is destroying our industry. If the contractors didnt need a concrete pump they wouldnt call for one so why would we give it away?? I understand there will be a little bit of difference in pricing but I have seen quotes from other companies to contractors that was half of my quote for the same job!
Another problem is that our industry used to be a pretty specialized industry until everybody and there brother started buying pumps and the manufacturers backed them! We now have a bunch of yahoos driving the prices down so they can wear there equipment out and since they werent making much money they cant afford to maintain it properly which in turn bites them in their ass.... But not before the damage is done and they have drove the price down for the whole market.
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putz63 | 07-31-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Well like I said, If you or that other double dummy are better at it call Bruce Young. Also we were servicing the jobs as they came in, so that is why BB grew. But this I do know, If you have enough Balls to buy a pump be a man and charge to make money. Bottom line..Our company may not be perfect but we support a lot of good paying American jobs and a lot of Family's. but the good news is the worst is behind us and the future is bright....you and double dummy just keep pulling up on jobs saying ...I can do it cheaper...I can do it cheaper....Just leave the heavy lifting to the company with the Horsepower to handle it.. You can keep busting out those 500 dollar footing pours.. Once a cheap whore always a cheap whore.. |
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FunnyBoom | 07-31-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Putz63 you obviously didnt read my post. Nowhere in it did i call out you or your company, only made a generalized statement about our industry. I never was and never will be the whore of the market, why bust my ass not to make money?
Also, whether you're a 4 pump company that does residential and light commercial or a large outfit doing the big work the business principle is the same... You should never drop the bottom out of the price just to get work, short term it may seem great but it will do nothing but hurt you and you're industry in the long term. We all have the same general expenses per pump just some on a larger scale than others, so how can one man charge half of the price that the next man charges for the same pump? Some of you msay say lower overhead, or his pump is paid off... But that is when the true money making begins, you keep the price where it should be, the books look great, the equipment is maintained properly and does what it is supposed to every day. Thats when you make a good name for your company and the service you provide and you use that to do your selling, not the price...
We are a service industry and that is what we have to sell, if the service that any concrete pumper out there provides doesn't justify a fair price then maybe they need to look into another line of work.
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JoelDLong | 08-01-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
63, sorry for harping on you. I agree with most of your comments. I was basically pointing out that if its wrong for the guy with maybe 5% of his gross allotted to overhead would be better able to run $100/hr than a company with say 35% overhead can run $120/hr if all operating costs are the same for both companies. I can remember being a very small company and pricing a wind farm at over $7/yard for 2 pumps fulltime on 35000 cry. Only other company bidding came in at less than $4/cy for 2 full time pumps. I think its safe to say that company (guess who) had greater overhead than we did. To each his own I reckon. I think bottom line at years end should be no less than 10% net profit company wide would be a realistic goal for everyone. If you can squeeze a little more out... great! If a little less you can always go hold someone else's joystick! |
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putz63 | 08-01-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
I was not referring to you Funnyboom. Joe no worries, I do not take any of this personal. I just want to make money on every job we pump. I just think in the end the guy running operating will be the one getting bent over with these cheap prices. Also I am sure BB had done cheap work but know that each branch had its own managers and they really only are accountable at the end of each month......
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Beast | 08-05-2013 | reply profile send pm notify |
Hopefully the days of pumping for free is coming to a end , I deal with a one pump guy all the time , flatrates every job , I will NOT do it , we are getting pretty good rates for our services rite now, but still have people that need to undercut because there service and equipment are terrible, I just keep doing what we do , pump for profit , in the end thats all I can do . |