Peristaltic Hose pumps are successfully used around the world in Mining for difficult sludges and slurries, and for chemical feed. They run dry, self-prime and will pull a 30 foot suction lift on water.

I recently learned about your sight and see they are referred to as "Squeeze" pumps. In fact, I read a few negative comments. Can we start a dialog on this subject to see if anyone has ever used a high quality pump such as Verderflex or Watson Marlow whom are number one & two in the peristaltic hose pump markets?

squezze ???

this is 2013 get a real pump!!

Just forget them you want be sorry.

I was hoping this was a professional site with intelligent responses....none yet!

I will try to give a little insight to squeeze-crete pumps. They are from before my time in the world of concrete pumping but I have talked to a lot of old timers that used to run them. From what I know they were more or less one of the first ways of pumping concrete, but maintenance was very high and break downs were pretty much daily. With a lot of the different mix designs out there and "extras" they add to concrete, i.e. steel fibers, they could not pump those types of mud with any kind of efficiency. A high slump was also required so on mix designs that are engineered for a low slump, these pumps could not do the job. They developed the modern piston style pump, which allowed for the pumps to be able to pump almost anything and a lot more reliable.

I don't know if that helped with what you where looking for, but thats my two bits. I may be wrong on some of it but thats just going on what I have heard from others.

Concerning this site not having professionals is not true, I believe there are a lot of professional guys on here with a lot of insight and experience. I think you just came at the sight with a funny topic, they have been obsolete for so long in our industry it just triggered sarcasm. You need a sense of humour in our line of work because the crap we deal with daily, you would lose your mind if you didn't have a sense of humour.

The squeeze crete had a vacume apllied to the drum . As the rollers turn in the drum collasping the hose the negitive pressure ( via vacum pump) will open the hose and create suction . Sides of the drum had plexiglass windows that leaked at times . Today they are long gone .

Ye old "sqeezers" , my old man cut his teeth on one for a couple years in the late 70's. They were one of the few pumps before then. I've only heard horror stories from him about blowing the hose in the chamber mid job and the clean-up and repair just to keep pumping. The trucks weren't much better, was told you neede to carry extra wheel studs in the ashtray because they were always breaking. Just another day for the Last American Cowboys.

Great response. Thank you!