Just a few pic's from a water tower base we have been pumping (sorry, I don't know why they are a little fuzzy ) 32m Putz pluged into a stand-pipe, with a Texas boom hanging from the crane. Located at Jamaica Beach, on Galveston Island, Texas

Hey guy's ...how do I get multiple pictures posted on one subject ???? I wanted to put four or five pic's up....

If you're downloading (hosting) them to this site, then I think you have to keep replying to the first post and add the pictures, if you use Photobucket of other hosting site, then you can just keep adding the URL links. As far as I know.

Cool. But a texas boom... That's not so popular here ;-)

But why use your boom? Why not traight from the hopper, one endhose in between and straight on the standpipe? Or was there no space for that?

yes why use the boom, couldnt you come straight of the back of the pump

Not possible due to site space...could not even get a trailer pump on that side of the job. But, they only got charged for a trailer pump. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

If the builder dont have space for a trailerpump and must use a boompump why should he dont pay for the boom ?

The contrator knows we need the work so they give ys a shot at it we can take it or leave it it is up to us stay home or go to work!!!

Seems to me another 80 - 100 feet of system and connect it to the trailer pump and you're golden. What could possibly prevent this from being the case? Need to maintain access for men and equipment over the pipeline? Simple - bury it. This ain't rocket surgery, people. The boom overhead merely adds another dimension of risk.

So much easier to just bring in the 32m and be done with it (it's only 50 yards per pour). Our trailer pump is always busy and is based out of our north yard 55 miles away, I am only 18 miles away with the 32m.

IC, extenuating circumstances prevail.

Are you superpumpers pumping the job?  Shut the hell up the 32 works SHUT up!!! You are not on the job but yet youact like you have a better way. If the man paying the bill is happy with the set up and no one is getting hurt and its running smooth why all the questions?

Sure the man paying the bill is happy, he's getting a boom for trailer price and no line system in the way. And the mixers are nowhere's near the worksite, why wouldn't he be happy?

Wow... Take it easy guys. I think you are right Grizzly. What the hell... Lay out 50' of system and mess around with a trailerpump while a 32 is standing at the yard. What a bullsh't. Now it was a dream job for you ;-) Just hook on and take a break !!

I'm just now getting to where i can sit down comfortably after putting a pic up on here with a "Texas boom". They gonna ream yo ass on here dude. Try sitting on a pillow... It will ease the pain.

I was kind of wondering why the 3rd degree ?? I was just putting pictures up to share my day on a great job !!! I have been doing this for 32 years..longer than a lot of you guys have been alive. Believe me if there was and easier or better way, I would have done it !!! Thanks for the input..but, how about making it positive ?? Unless you see something unsafe..just enjoy the the pictures. Grizz

Great pics Grizz, Dont listen to these stupid ass Superpumpers, they are the smartest people typing on their computers. 

my problem with a texas boom is when it is directly hooked to a boom pump with just hoses in between , a crane holding it off a stand pipe may not be the safest but is fine with me as long as the crane is well within spec and all safety concerns are met, from a liability stand point you may want to give them the position of the crane industry on the dangers of using a crane to hold texas booms , I do not know if the stipulations were on just tower cranes or hydraulic and crawler cranes also, ? but do know it is strictly forbidden with tower cranes.But this one looks okay to me.

Sorry grizz for even asking that question that started all this. Cool job. I would have loved to do that one!!

None of it is personal, just questions. Maybe none of it is anybody's business. Mostly just curiosity and wondering WTF? Too bad that the iron was discounted, but things are what they are. Nobody does anything they feel is unreasonable. Get the job, and get it done. As far as the Texas Boom up top, it doesn't (directly) pose any risk to the concrete pump on the ground. I hope that the system on the T-Boom was not yours, so that if the shit does hit the fan, you are more at arm's length.

WOW some of you guys are a peace of work. Concrete is on the ground or in this case the deck no body is dead, good day in my book.

pumpjocky....all the system is theirs. one of the reasons we took the job. We just supply the pump. These guy are very knowledgeable about pumping and do these towers all over the country. One thing kind of funny though....they are going to have to rent and pay for our 63m to pour the slab on top..

That's great that they own the system, they are responsible for the cleanout and the prime basically. Being that the system is not yours pretty much absolves you of what is going on beyond the connection where your system ends. Glad to hear that they know something about pumping, that's a bonus. Great job for a boom then, had that been stated first off, then all the questions wouldn't have come up. I'd have done it the same way too. Gotta like jobs like that, they don't come much simpler.

i just topped off the water tower for Caldwell a little further down the road from this one today. 2 pumps, 61 and a 58 straight up and over. fun times!!! if you want good exercise climb a 12 story water tower by ladder connected to the wall.