This was a 258 truck-ballet in which the contractor placed 11,500 yards of concrete in one monolithic pour that got started at five in the morning and finished by three in the afternoon.”

Did you do the math? That’s 258 trucks in 10 hours. 26 trucks per hour. Or if you like, 1 truck every 2 minutes 20 seconds.

Is that the one from San Diego in '02?

I give it a 10!...a 10!...I still got wood!

26 trucks an hour ......13 pumps (i think )thats only  2 load an hour each..sounds like an easy day's pumping.....

not sure i understand why you would have so many pumps there like that some look like they cant swing boom more than ten degrees .you would only reqally need naybe 4 or 5 look like a lot of overkill but i suppose good photo op

I count 13 set up and pumping, 2 placing booms and 5 on stand by!!! What is that between $4-5,000/hr + metre/yardage? SWEET JESUS what a sweet invoicing day that would be..... CHA CHING!!!! Easy day for the operators, just have to make sure you have the sun screen on as that looks like a sun day.

If 15 pumps working in that 10 hour stint it's only 76 yards per hour a pump.They sure didn't wear out any boom pipe,I can name that tune in 3 notes (for those that remember that show)

I would say the redi mix supplier gets a big "atta boy for there work"

Thet just cant afford a cold joint on a slab that thick

nice, looks like western's pumps  

looks like a picture out of a schwing calender i saw in marietta

Todd,

This shows the pour more than halfway done. Do you have any pics showing pouring of RR side?

Gwillet72, time was the reason for so many pumps.  City of San Diego let them shut down Pacific Highway in downtown (a main arterial North-South) and they had to get the mud down as quickly as possible.  Besides, there wasn't much boom movement anyways.  That is a floating slab (below the water table) and the ocean is next to the Holiday Inn in the photo, so it was so thick that most pumps didn't move their boom all day.  If anyone on here was working for Western CP at the time, do you remember the thickness of the slab?  I don't want to give the wrong number, but it was DEEP.

Great pictures.

Great people who were worked. 

how is the pump on the bottom right of the picture getting mud?

Follow the the line pumps system that is in the street.

I just remembered a funny story about this pic.  During the entire pour, environmentalists were protesting and trying to disrupt the concrete trucks from accessing the site.  One of the mixer drivers got into a argument (nothing physical just words) with a protester, when another protester came around the other side and began discharging his drum right there on Pac. Ave.  Talk about defeating your own purpose.  To clean up the mess, cement is flowing from the street directly into the ocean.  Some people are so dumb.  Also, the guy who discharged the drum went away in cuffs. 

Correction - I meant to say 'an argument' not 'a argument'.  I don't want to participate in the horrible grammar seen on the message boards. 

no body likes participating with horrible gran ma s!!! 

 sorry couldnt resist.

what is the pump on the bottom left pumping ?

concrete

Follow the dots from the bottom left pic to bottom right pic's then connect those dots.

pretty sure that was the job in san diego western concrete pumping and surperior ready mix and vulcuan/palamar it was a big poor

Bottom left is pumping into the bottom right. Bottom left was most likely a detach from which one of the placing booms came from. Great Pics, love the lone putz. in the pic. poor sole.

 Bottom left is plumbed into bottom right because of the limited access?

 Cool picture Todd, How'd you get the photo, Air plane, news chopper?

cp1, dont be such a "grammar nazi", There are people on this site that type entire pages without one single period or comma! 2000 word paragraphs, Those are my favorite!

I count 18 pump trucks including 2 backups. This is like an eye spy book!!! :)