Stop Pushing the “Big Money” Button on Your Pumps.
By Robert Edwards

Last week I was creating another nomograph. It was nothing new, I’ve made hundreds of them. I’ve written papers on their use for sizing pumps to job situations, and I thought I knew everything about them. This time, for whatever reason, a truth jumped off the page at me that I’d never considered before:

If you want to see the rest of the story go to our articles page and its the second article.

http://www.concretepumping.com/index.php?mode=articles

This was a good read. A last month I pumped 360 yards in 3.5 hours. I was thinking WHAT A WASTE of everything. Ware, Fuel, beaten the hoots out of the machine. They loved it! Today I pumped 8 yards in a hour. Now that's a money job!

last week i poured a job wich totaled 180 yards. it took 12 hours to pump without our set up or wash out time. it wasnt supposed to go like that just poor concrete service and some finishers that jumped in over thier heads. the boss loved it cause of the bill he mailed them.

I did a job two weeks ago.  95 yards in 10.5 hours.  I felt guilty giving them the bill.  Then the next morning the dispatcher tells me they complained that I pumped to fast...

Went back to do another 70 yards, I took 10.5 hours and they loved it....funny.   

The pour can not be completed until all the concrete is there; that is a given.

The art of the article was how the operator deals with the rate of delivery and placement.

Pump software (Todd's) can tell an owner or manager how sensitive the operator is to the company's survival. Does the op' slow the machine way down when ever possible? Does he cram and jam and then turn it off until more mud shows up or they have caught up and wish to start again?

The last company I worked for paid attention to each operator's performance and how much wear (total yards) each operator got out of a set of boom pipe. The graph was a reminder of how your actions effect the company and its ability to profit.

Solid scientific proof that faster isn't better

how slow can you go and keep the customer happy is the trick to profit. Your pour rate is different from your average YPH