We all hurt on a day like this.

A mixertuck-driver where reversing his truck right on me when i where mixing slurry, standing behind the hopper. It was so close that i get crushed. After that incident (it was years ago) i never do anything behind the hopper when a mixertruck is near by the pump. Sorry for your friend, it´s very sad when it happends.

What a great idea! Why isn´t that a standard on every pump? It´s a simple solution to avoid the pumper to risk his life when the mixertruck is near by the pump. 

i usually always have my primer port full an the cap back on by the time the mixer gets there an if i have to waiit a while for mud an i decide to wait till it get there b4 i prime ill make sure i hold the mixer up short of the hopper so i can take care of it plus if hes backed in his chute is in the way

the design of the swing elbow w/prime port at the rear of the pump made it possible for this accident to occur. it's murphy's law... so if you could improve the design to make it impossible for someone to be hurt this way why wouldn't you?

We had our Putz 20m with the groutport on the reducer from factory , first bend rotate 360 deg . So You can probably order one reducer with groutport from Esser directly . [img] [/img]