@@ryanfallon6306 Thanks Ryan. Much appreciated 🙏

@@jamessomero3617 Thanks James. Always appreciate you man 👊👊👊

@@repaircollc Glad you enjoyed it. Dann always does a really good job of teaching/explaining this stuff. We’ll have to do a similar video except with the Alliance setup, in the not so distant future. 👊👊👊

@@MuDemon2023 Whenever Dann and I get together, the videos tend to run a little looooooooong….. 😂😂😂

@@mikeeemike988 Exactly! We do our best to start mixing delay into the hopper and/or ready mix truck as such that we can get the pipeline filled with as much of the delayed concrete as possible, yet avoid working it all the way through the system and ending up in the finished pour area.

@@luissoto6880 I’m loving this drone!!! The amount of footage I can cover in such a short time versus running around on foot has really help in making my videos more time efficient. We don’t blow back into the mixer here for a few reasons, the biggest one being that there have been isolated incidents of the candy-cane setups popping out of mixer drums and damaging property and/or people. Ready mix companies aren’t hot on us blowing back into their drums for safety reasons as well as the fact that doing so requires holding their truck and driver on site later into the day when they are often nearing the threshold of “timing out” (mandated 14 hours maximum work day for commercial drivers). The other thing is that ready mix companies now charge for any leftovers which come back to the plant at days end, so most any cost savings their previously would have been from blowing concrete out into a mixer versus purging it into a rock bin and paying to have it trucked away are now, near mitigated.

Young kid training on the boom, he's doing pretty well for a newer guy. Doesn't help much in that these placing-boom setups can tend to move around a little bit more than a conventional boom pump would.

@canadianconcretepumper1979 Right on! He'll figure it out in a floor or two. I really hope you can catch the raising operation of the boom tower height. This is gonna be an awsome job for your drone, can't wait for the next one! Thanks again for bringing us along ✌️

@@repaircollc So Dann and I actually did a video a while back on which we went through the jacking process of a Putzmeister placing-boom setup (see attached link). I definitely plan to document the process throughout the progression of this project with the Alliance setup 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHnPaIOJaZeWrpYsi=7ovRGJPhiOwz5T86

Thanks John! 45 years young.... only 40 more to go until retirement/push'N up daisies! 🤣🤣🤣

@@concretejungle77 Strictly forbidden by most every ready mix outfit in our region. They won’t even allow us to run the hose up their chute to pump our hopper down and back into the mixer.

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 wow ,well looks like you guys countered well, thanks for reply and info

@@jacobscott7137 Lol!!!! Ain’t that sweet/coffee smell just the best thing ever???

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 I like it but I’m weird 😂

@@jacobscott7137 Makes two of us!

It’s like paint/gas… you know it’s bad but smells so good 😩

@@b.crypto.7788 Tastes pretty decent too…. don’t ask me how I know this. 😁

@@calhounconcretepumping7260 I find shotcrete just has so much cementitious material in it that it takes a TON of this stuff to slow it down anything significant. Delvo or Recover I find is better suited for retarding shotcrete mixes.

@@BryanCanamexconcrete It really varies Bryan. If the mud is reasonably fresh I can usually get 2-3 hours out of it before breaching that threshold where it kills the mud for 12 hours plus. With old/hot mud, sugar or recover really is the ticket. This stuff is great in that the concrete in the hopper is still somewhat useable at my next job. Heidelberg trucks normally carry this same product. Gotta sweet talk the driver hooking you up with a bag.

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 thanks for the info brother and I do enjoy testing my luck on the drivers, especially the cranky ones hahaha. It used to be hard for me to even use their water and I've worked my way up to get some slick packs now.

@@BryanCanamexconcrete At jobs end I’ll usually trade the driver a full washout into my hopper in exchange for a bag of delay powder. They almost never refuse.

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 LOL I'll try that next time. I've been letting them do that for free, time to get something out of it

@@unclemanny3200 driving to another job (city pump). The vast majority of our job sites do not have a suitable washout area. We either drive 30-45 minutes to the ready mix plant for a washout, or just take it directly to the next job. Either situation, we add retarder to the hopper.

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 how the world do you keep it from sticking in the corners of your hopper? I’ve used sand, dirt, and retardant but never works well enough for me to just spray out. I have to actually get something to beat it out of if it’s too far gone I use air chisel

@@calhounconcretepumping7260 Try dusting the walls of the hopper with bentonite. It will still cake up, but at days end just a few whacks with the washout bar and the buildup will fall right off of the walls of the hopper. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYi7hGSbmbd6fZosi=O4l6ud6cEc8z3wQb

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 I’ll try it thanks

@@calhounconcretepumping7260 I know it probably depends on how strict your region is with environmental stuff but if you spray your hopper with old hydraulic oil mix with a little bit of diesel it helps for it not to stick. Especially if you do it right after your wash out on your last job for the day and let it soak over night.

@@markrobinson6883 us children of the 90’s can appreciate this one for sure Mark!

@canadianconcretepumper1979 have a great Friday ,Scott 👍

@@MuDemon2023 6-8 beers deep and in gett’N my groove on to this one!!!

@@garlenseong38 Gotta sell this one first, then we’ll see what happens 😁

@@bowenike So my good buddy Dann from the channel has a couple of placing-booms going up in the not so distant future here. I’ll see if he and I can put something together. Dann is great at explaining the process of these things and is also is far more knowledgeable with regard placing-boom systems than I myself am.

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 haha Dan definitely seems to spend a lot of his time (more than he likes) on placing booms than regular boom pump jobs. That would honestly be a great series of videos

Yes

@@sirmister4411 Alliance is always at least in the conversation 👌👌👌

@@repaircollc Eternally 😁

Biggest we have in the roads here is a 62M Concord. The biggest Putzmeister is the 58M (63M is unfortunately not legal for our roads).

I could only wish… we are unable to get the 63M legal for our roads here (weight).

I wish we had that option here. For these big pumps we basically only have 1 or 2 different chassis to choose from.

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 All Putzmeister 58s here have five or six axles, I don't know of any with seven axles. Liebherr says that theoretically other chassis (European) could also be used for North America, but that is up to the customer of the pump to decide. I rather think that the European trucks do not fulfill any requirements (axle loads?) of the authorities in America/Canada or that it is too complex/expensive for a few trucks to meet them. Here in Germany, concrete pumps are not trucks in the conventional sense, they are registered here as self-propelled work machines. They are tax-exempt here, they can also drive at any time on Sundays because they transport nothing except the pump, which is firmly attached to the chassis. Theoretically, a concrete pump driver is allowed to drive 24/7 around the clock because it is not a truck. There can only be problems for labor law reasons, but these only apply to employees, self-employed bosses can do what they want. 😂 But it's funny that Canada has just ordered over 1500 Mercedes special trucks for the military, so Mercedes is allowed in North America.

@@martinmay91 Out regulations here in North America are all over the place. You can have a very specific chassis built to comply in one region, and then drive just a few hours in any direction to find that it’s almost the total opposite of what is required in the next region.

Some might say it’s just the perfect size to sell 😂😂😂

We’ve got our eye on something… gotta get this one sold first though 😁😁😁

An Appliance?? I see a lot of videos of them on your channel…

@@canadianconcretepumper197963 meter isn’t it

@@mattdupuis4838 63Z is unfortunately not permit-able for our local roads here (weight).

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 interesting I am very curious to see what the Canadian concrete pumper has in mind as a replacement.

@@mattdupuis4838 nothing finalized yet, bet we have something VERY interesting at the top of our list 😁

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 60m 6 section 🚀

@@rogercwilliams881 that’s what I was thinking as well, but I do have some concern that the heat from welding could melt/damage the hose.

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 that's what I did for about 18 years. Never had trouble. I also made my own as well. Junk 3 inch hose cut the crimp back to expose the barbs. I used 3 strap hammer hose clamps. I used to make 16 and 25 footers.

@@bekimtvrtkovic3244 typically with our mixes we don’t see the links working so hard through this amount of 3.5” hose. There’s definitely some 4” steel pipe in the cards for when we come back here to pour the topping slab 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@@user-zr7ii9lh3j LOL!!!!! The same conclusion we have just now come to. With the cost of pipes/hoses/clamps damn near doubling in the last 5 years, and the quality/life expectancy being less than half of what it used to, something’s gotta give. Your dad is a smart man indeed! 👌

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 Yes he was. I remember thinking. Dads mad. When I asked he said. Remember the old car we had. It got hit. Beat with a hammer and get back to driving. It was a good old car. Made to last. Your mom’s new car hit the pole and airbags went off and it cost 25k to fix. Well the hoses used to be good now there shit. Sadly it’s very true. Prices have went up but quality has went down. People don’t understand. We’re not actually making more money. We’re using it to keep up with new equipment because it’s not what it used to be

@@user-zr7ii9lh3j it’s so true. If we’d adjusted our pricing in accordance with inflation, we’d be charging $10 per yard instead of $3-$4

@@jamessomero3617 normally we’ll pump our mixes through this much 3.5”hose with the pressure gauge reading only half of what it is here. We don’t see much 4” hose around here because guys simply can’t/won’t deal with it. Next pour we’ll likely just run a bunch of 4” steel pipe and break off as we go. Today’s market they’re going to have to bite the bullet and go the route of line dragons or track mounted spyder boom. The willing and able bodies just don’t exist to deal with this anymore. We have a hard enough time finding guys to deal with the hours of pumping easy jobs. Pours like this just give them more inactive to go drive ready mix for close to the same wage. I agree though, 4” system would have been WAY easier on the machines.

Is this possible?

@@user-wh3db6vy3l for 90% of our smaller residential pours like this, we use 2” hose. Our regular ready mix supplier provides a really nice 2” line mix.

@@hankrum1toni This is a great question and discussion topic. My opinion: if the ground conditions are a relatively layer of loose soil on top I am comfortable with a slight bit of settlement from compaction and would monitor accordingly but more likely tighten up the outriggers on my non-working side to take up any play in the setup. If the ground is seemingly firm yet the pads still sink (even just slightly) is a huge red flag for me, especially if cracking/fault lines appear in the ground near my dunnage. In this case, I’m bringing in the boom and outriggers to build larger dunnage, or likely even just moving the machine to different setup location. In either situation, jacking fully loaded outriggers on the working side of the machine gives my stomach a sinking feeling. Once that top layer/crust of hard ground begins to let go, it can be game over. I myself I’m not a fan of doing so. Once again, thank you for a GREAT comment. These are the types of discussion us pump operators need to have more frequently. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@@canadianconcretepumper1979 thank you for the answer. Great videos

@@hankrum1toni Thanks brother. I much appreciate you watching and contributing in the comments 🙏🙏🙏

Merci ☺️