josh craiglow from buckeye

meat head from buckeye

Not too much room to work with there....

How do you like the concrete trucks bri? This was the first time pumping with these things, and they are the messiest trucks you could ever pour with.

They are very interesting indeed I must say> They look like the mixers from the early 1900's.

whats wiv those mixers? ive never seen 1 of them before. how much do the carry? do they mix well or does most of the aggregate sit at the bottom ? i'd like to know a bit more.

Those mixers are made by Maxon. They are used in high volume - short haul situations. They usually feed paving machines. I bet your pumps needed a good cleaning after those things slopped crete all over you.

And I guess by definition they are not 'mixers' they are poorly agitated transport trucks.

I think they should be lucky that they have agitators !

When I started to pump , many of the truck that deliverd the mud was tipper but NO agitators ! When they travell the stone sink to the bottom ! The first half of the load was like butter , the rest only stone ! I remeber one time , about 30 celsius outside and 70 meter 3" rubber , 80m/3 mud.... I stop counting the blockage after 50.....And the blockage where every where , reducer in the rubber in the turret You name it !

And a blockage in the turret to , and the hoppergrate get stuck in the aggitator after i backpumped an it lifted....

What a day...

 Vasa

The only reason those trucks are allowed to transport state mixes is because the slump is usually so low that separation does not take place. With a slump over 100mm separation becomes an issue.

They are NOT pump-friendly.

Thank good they are not allowed longer in Sweden !!

They could deliver 200 mm slump in these trucks....

NOT pumpfriendly not a day without a blockage....

Now it goes many 1000 yards between the blockage and I have a 4" endhose nearly every day , and 3" rubber when I have a system on....

And Bob , I want a pic of you in Your profile page ! ;-)

after looing at todays post, what no comments on that outrigger close to the edge

defetnitly no space , makes me nervouse,but great pics

It looks to me like he was about 8" from the edge, and right over one of the driven piles. Pour it out, man!

as we all know, we cant comment on the outrigger as we wasnt there, only the operator decides if its safe or not

The trucks were hauling nine yard loads, they were coming out of a central batch about one mile away. Pouring about an eight inch slump and like Vasa said everything is great till you get to the end of the load. And yes Bob this was the messiest job that i have ever been on. You can't really see in the picture but the outrigger was very stable, sitting on a forty foot deep caseon twelve inch steel beams welded all together if it was'nt going to be safe we would have done it another way.

When my dad first started driving mixers those were all they had. I remember his first revolving drum mixer. It had a 4 cylinder pony motor , air brakes and a (gasp) PRESSURIZED water tank! Ah! those were the days...