Stability testing taken to a whole new level!

As Australian regulation states: "All concrete placing booms MUST be inspected annually by a 'competent person"

The engineer definitely fails here as he is not wearing a HARD HAT.

Tom Could you organise to get him a Concrete Pumping dot com HARD HAT! We wish him well with his future endeavours.

im not taking my trk there for inspection!!!!!!!!!!!!! ive watched boom inspections with the max rated weight on booms and that isnt it  . i guess he was in a hurry to get done

what would chezpump say about this

that looks just like the first pump i ran 1972 whiteman, also a challenger cook brother pump

Seems like a lot of weight there, about 8500 pounds.  Would not think a boom would pick that up

Pump looks like a Jap import from some car dealer who hopes to make a quick buck.

I was lead to believe testing booms was to have weights attached to each boom section so that the test weights represented actual operating weight with concrete in the pipes and a manufacturer's specified tip hose length.

I seems that this f'wit was testing the boom as a crane. Wot's the decal on every concrete pump boom say

"do not use as a crane" or words to that effect?

if done corectly each sect would have manufactured spec weight attached  not all at the end thats why the cyl buckeled