Pumping today and on the third and final truck half way through my chain on my pump snaps. i didn't have a spare link and couldn't fix it to finish. worst of all i the last truck was a hot load and had no way to get the concrete out of a 100' of line. Does any one know a way to get out day old concrete out of a 2 inch line? Or am i screwed and half to buy new line. All help will be greatly welcomed. Thanks

If you have a high powered pressure washer with quick change tips, you can fabricate a cap that can clamp on the pipe and snap onto the washers wand. You then chip out enough of the concrete to put a blow out ball in the pipe and clamp the camp onto the pipe. You then have some one tap the pipe while you run the power washer. This works for pipes not hoses. We had a 52m flash in Bentonville Ar and drove it 5 hours back to Kansas city Ks, removed all elbows and blew out the pipes with no problems. I've been told it will work no matter how old the mud is, but have never tried it on really old mud.

I dont know if it will work with how old it is, but you can also just try filling the hopper with water and pump it through

wow that is a bad day and i am with Todd sledge maybe but you could also just ruin hose beating on it but pressure to a hose if it did move sure would be a bomb if it moved all the way out you would need a d9 parked on it to hold it but day old i don't think it would move good luck

the pressure washer trick works great, even on rubber hoses and since water does not compress like air, there is no stored energy, making it even safer than using compressed air. (just make sure not to try it on a half empty hose, or you will have water pressure compressing an air pocket). We have saved thousands of dollars in pipes and hoses using this method. I actually learned this trick form a member on this very site who had posted some pics. and info. on it about a year ago. One of the many reasons why this forum is so great! PS. be careful on twin-wall pipe as the high pressure water will sometimes push the concrete, as well as the hardened inner layer of the pipe right out.

I can't believe you don't know how to clean out a hose, you never had one plug before, when this happens as soon as you can get to a water supply use a garden hose start running it up inside the plugged hose to the plug then start beating the plug with a sledge hammer and have someone push and pull on the hose you may get wet, I have had lots of plugs most of the time I wait till I get to my yard, when water starts flowing out the other end,pull out the water hose then roll your two inch and the concrete will come out the end, and one more thing get a spare chain or get rid of the chain drive pump.

This happened to me the first week by myself. Needless to say it happened less often as time went by.

it wasnt a clog that was the problem just the chain breaking and form now on i will always have a spear! i will try to get them clean thanks all.

I do not know the circumstances of the system you had laid out or the machine you were using to complete this project!

If your machine was down, I guess the only option you would have had was compressed air to clean out your dead line (because you waited to long to disconnect and dispose of the contents) so you would have had to secure it by wheight, and sparingly allow air to go thru it in very discreet fashion with the proper catcher at the end of your system.

Trey said it best, if you were on top of your game, water wash would be your best alternative, as long as you had all pieces of your system properly anchored to prevent whipping, with the proper receiver at the end of your line to prevent any catastrohis discharge.

The best alternative would be to take the system apart piece by piece to clean individually, without the assistance of your sledge hammer. Everyone else has already spoke of their best advice. SAFETY FIRST! Sometimes it may bw safer to pitch it and start anew!

how long are your hoses, if they are fifties just cut them in half. also if use a light truck within hours you can drive over the hose to break up material that has flashed on you.

i have an adapter that clamps on and has a 3/4 female water hose connection to push out.

think you are skrewed, but some of my lines are 17 foot and can be dumped out on a regular basis just one of the reasons i made hoses shorter and eaisier on the back.

mechanical pumps are allways a problem and issues like that can crush your business for years, ball pumps are old technology.  

I got a few emails saying that beating a hose with with a sludge hammer is very bad for the hose and can cause bad problems later on down the road. Also it is not recommended using air to clean out hose also. Can be very dangerous and should not be done.

Hammer it out little by little. I been through some nasty break downs and if you just had 100ft of hose off of a ball valve pump even with hot mud you could clean it up by hand befor having a trailer party. When something like that happends you dont wait you drop everything and clean up by all means or work harder after or take the loss if you have money for new hosses.

trash and buy new