Just looking at all the past topics I couldn't help but think.I wonder what the ages and years experience todays operators are.I'm 59 and still remember case,thompson,titan,whiteman,elba.

Rex, Chain, SqueezeCrete,

and my all time fav' Titan 3900 ho rah

Your funny,alas the 3900.It set the world on fire

i forgot the Econ-Placer, Hercules and George Priddy's (one of my heros) favorite, the Pump-it.

It is important to note that Thomson was 600 then 700 then 800 then Big Bob Weatherton"s (another hero) 2001

They may not have been the good old days; but they dam sure were the old days........... I am glad they are past.

These new pumps are really something. Man they PUMP!!!

Can you imagine wheeling up on a job in 1970 with a 65 Meter - Trick paint, aluminum wheels, bad ass pump and a boom that gets lost in the fog, THAT would have been a trip.

I am not that old but have been pumping for a while. I am 36 yrs old and have been pumping since 1989. The first boom I ever ran was a whiteman. It was for a company based out of Belton TX, called All American Concrete Pumping with main yard in Austin at the time.  I remeber a couple of older guys who worked there, now own their own pump companies in Austin. Hunter concrete pumping and Viking Concrete Pumping. Jim Ledger was owner. The next company I worked for ran a Morgen, Thompson, Econ, Gate Valve Swing, Putz, talk about mixed races. It was a challenge to keep everything running.  Man how time flys!!

I met George Priddy in 1997, through his oldest son. He was a character!! Good man!

28y/o

10 years safely operating concrete pumps

First Boom pump Operated 1984 Schwing 28m with 801 gate mounted on an International

First Trailer pump Olin 540 HBV

as a kid, during the school holidays, i would go and watch big sister's hubby spray pools, a machine they called the coffee grinder, a man aloft shoveling the crap down the shute into it, a disc like chain dragging the stuff thru a rubber thingo setup into a 2 inch pipe [i am sure it was 2], an airline connection back to a beast that had 600cfm painted across its guts, pipeline laid out up the driveway and out the back to someones new must have [pool]. as i said i was only a boy at the time and spent most of my time about 3 houses away, i found nothing interesting about a bloke holding up a nozzle about 15 inches long and getting bounced around a reo cage nor did i kind it intriging how that bloke could shovel for so long into that thing that seemed to break alot, and i thought all constuction equipment must sound like jumbo jets at full thrust taking off.

this all happened a little while before the brother in law and his mates {partners} placed their order for the brand new '76 model squeezie line pump [that use to block up too haha]

thats over 30 yrs ago, loved it then, love it now and every little bit in between.

My first pump 21 years ago was a 580 Schwing. Then I moved up to an 800

 Im a young pup, twenty years old. Cant even cross state lines for four more months lol Been pupmpin for just about 3 years since a week after graduation. Started out in a 1996 Putz 32 now run a 2004 Putz 31z. Used to run the 43 for a little while.

i am 23. ive been pumping since i was 14. started with my fathers challenge squezze boom pump.since then ive operated case , putzmeister for a couple of times, thompson and then the first pump that i brought was a schwing 28 meter gate valve and since then its bin all schwings, 28m,20m,23,32m,23-4h. 

Hi guys.51 yrs old,33 yrs pumping.Dad got me in early,and paid me well!I was addicted to the money at first,but this job gets in your blood. It has taken me all over the world(overseas construction)and financed 3 wives and 2 children,AND I wouldn't change a thing! I've run alot of equipment( Thompsen-600,640,640c,740c,747,745,840,875,2001;Titan 3900(ser#01,02,03) on an overseas job,Whiteman-p85,p100,p110,Elba 26m,31m,32m,36m,Schwing16m,22m,28m,32m,34m,36m,39m,41m,42m,45m,47m,52m(still my favorite pump of all time),58m and 61m,and two things remains constant...Rocks in,Rocks out,and the only one who is in charge of safety on my jobs is ME!! No one else really understands the complexity of my job!