Brutal. I had the same thing happen to me today, crew standing around, concrete still in hoses and being under the sun. You can just feel the pressure but feels so good when you get it rolling again and you quickly realize why everyone can not last in this pumping game. Hahah people look at me like I'm crazy for still smiling after dealing with this mess but it's what I live for. You just never know what you're going to get Take care Scott !!
@@BryanCanamexconcrete Had similar on the line-pump these last few days. Mud had been hit as shit lately, which is ironic considering that cooler fall temperatures have set in.
This looks exactly like the stuff I was pumping out of a volumetric truck today. I normally have a 4” reducer and a 3 1/2” reducing whip hose on. When priming with volumetric trucks and rocky mixes I like to keep my augers in reverse to kick the rocks to the back of the hopper for the entire pour, I got it primed A-frame then half a yard later it plugged, laid the boom down took the 3 1/2 and 4” reducer off then put the 4 1/2” hose on. In my area contractors will always bitch about anything bigger than 3 1/2” so If guys want to dump gravel in my hopper then they can deal with it. Kept it rolling slow without stopping. The rest of the pour went great.
@@PT2024CG Operator started off with a 3.5” tip-hose (our typical/standard hose size for when pumping commercial mixes), locked up right away and swapped it out for the 4 inch. On a pour like this we’ll use the 4.5” tip-hose next time around.
I remember when I was a concrete finisher form center finishing concrete bridges in California and the state of California inspectors and they will they work with you a little bit loud like 5 gallons of water so you can have something to work with it but know that mud is a b**** to work with it's hot and it's just a b**** it's like it's hot it'll blow up on you quick if you don't know how to work it
You got to love the state mix design 80 percent of it you can pump and the other 20 percent you battle it good thing it wasn’t 1 1/2 stone mix that is tough to pump
@@jamessomero3617 So our 1 1/2” mix actually pumps far nicer than this stuff. It uses round/river stone with a good blend of medium and fine materials. This mix here is nothing but a ton of 3/4” crushed with some cement powder and a pinch of sand. Stuff just binds up like crazy!
Good morning. I have questions. I'm retired LIUNA member, 30 years in NYC construction. I'm not sure if you are Union or not. I think yes. Are you a Super or a foreman on the pumpers or both? you just mentioned that you got a call that you are needed on another job and you raced over there to help. What about the job you were on, whose covering that one after you leave. Love your content. Good luck in Texas, Herb Wagner out. KEEP ON PUMPIN!
@@herbwagner7997 We are a smaller operation, so I do a bit of everything. On this day I was not out on a pump, so was able to divert from what I had going on and run by the site to help out.
I had a mix like this in my line pump once!! I finally got it primed amd thru and i couldn’t pump more then a quarter volume and the mext time i went i couldnt pump it and the thing is i called and told them they had to change the mix or dont call me back. Well sure enough when they called they said they fixed the mix so i get there and guess what…. They didnt change anything. They begged me to try it and dummy me i did and got plugged in 50 ft and never made it any further and told them sorry but im not doing it
I had that once priming a 42 for a bridge pour in ab here was a bitch anyways 40 minutes later we pumping. A month later we get a bill 10k for crew standby charge from the builder company out of Ontario it's tough always being on the spot to save the pour and pump garbage at totally our own risk
Dodged a huge bullet! Almost had you a boom p*****! We’re never that lucky here with the heat :( once something goes bad you got about 5 minutes to decide what to do and do it or your banging pipes for the next 8 hours
@@MaxCrete 100% that was my exact conversation with the QC guy on site. Dealing with rough mixes like this is common place in many/most markets which don’t have the buttery mixes which we are accustomed to pumping here.
Looking at the mix comming out the hose looks like it was short on sand ( bad mix design for a pump , its could have been on the hot side , glad u got it cleaned.
@@canadianconcretepumper1979 Gota make A to B pass...given shit to work with; water doesn't make it better, speed and rpm to manipulate, with good priming technique. maximize your out port to flow. Try not reduce if not needed...5" lay flat is my go to Work with it not against it.... Run as much steel line and not rubber because of the harsh mixes...
@@vanchecowilson9116 They have become much more common here in the last few years, but still only account for I’d say less than 5% of the concrete delivery trucks on our roads.
What mix you got? A rock mix, you'll be fine, its a rock pump right? Typical conversation. Followed by whats wrong with your pump? Nothing, whats wrong with your mix? Well it got where its supposed to, right. Well done
@@TheConcreteman006 Best part was once we had the boom pipe back together and had spent 30 minutes blasting out of the cooked hopper with a fire hose, they actually wanted to back that same nuclear hot truck which plugged us up in the first place, back onto the pump… NO BUENO!!!!
@canadianconcretepumper1979 yeah the load is better now, lol. Im cracking up at the long hose downhill shot. Bags over the ends and poke a hole, damn i was thinking i was the only guy that does that. Need really thin bags so the pop easy, just enough to slow things down. I got some stone saved to show what we got going in socal sometimes. Love the videos, appreciate it. Enjoy your sunday WD
@@TheConcreteman006 So the Costco deli bags which is use are ultra-thin. I’ve used them dozens of times before with zero issue. In this instance, I believe that the first yard of concrete out of that mixer was so rocky than even just the slightest little bit of resistance from these bags was enough to initiate a plug.
Brutal. I had the same thing happen to me today, crew standing around, concrete still in hoses and being under the sun. You can just feel the pressure but feels so good when you get it rolling again and you quickly realize why everyone can not last in this pumping game. Hahah people look at me like I'm crazy for still smiling after dealing with this mess but it's what I live for. You just never know what you're going to get
Take care Scott !!
@@BryanCanamexconcrete Had similar on the line-pump these last few days. Mud had been hit as shit lately, which is ironic considering that cooler fall temperatures have set in.
This looks exactly like the stuff I was pumping out of a volumetric truck today. I normally have a 4” reducer and a 3 1/2” reducing whip hose on. When priming with volumetric trucks and rocky mixes I like to keep my augers in reverse to kick the rocks to the back of the hopper for the entire pour, I got it primed A-frame then half a yard later it plugged, laid the boom down took the 3 1/2 and 4” reducer off then put the 4 1/2” hose on. In my area contractors will always bitch about anything bigger than 3 1/2” so If guys want to dump gravel in my hopper then they can deal with it. Kept it rolling slow without stopping. The rest of the pour went great.
@@PT2024CG Operator started off with a 3.5” tip-hose (our typical/standard hose size for when pumping commercial mixes), locked up right away and swapped it out for the 4 inch. On a pour like this we’ll use the 4.5” tip-hose next time around.
Believe me. Every mix with transportion department, brigde, infrastructure or similar naming is always a battle.
Alot of fun hours with those mixes.
Banger video. It sucks you got knocked out the challenge over a fin fish
@@GRUBB-MUDD it most definitely is a tough break. Same thing which got Muddy Feet. Just the way she goes sometimes I suppose. 😁😁😁
@@canadianconcretepumper1979 yes sir
Looks like a normal Texas mix!!!
I remember when I was a concrete finisher form center finishing concrete bridges in California and the state of California inspectors and they will they work with you a little bit loud like 5 gallons of water so you can have something to work with it but know that mud is a b**** to work with it's hot and it's just a b**** it's like it's hot it'll blow up on you quick if you don't know how to work it
@@robertaustin-y7j Funny thing is, this stuff actually pumped better at a tighter slump. At a looser slump it would just segregate.
one of the VERY few times i prefer to use a telebelt lol
You got to love the state mix design 80 percent of it you can pump and the other 20 percent you battle it good thing it wasn’t 1 1/2 stone mix that is tough to pump
@@jamessomero3617 So our 1 1/2” mix actually pumps far nicer than this stuff. It uses round/river stone with a good blend of medium and fine materials. This mix here is nothing but a ton of 3/4” crushed with some cement powder and a pinch of sand. Stuff just binds up like crazy!
Wether it's a good time or a bad time, it'll make for a story later on.
@@fronabargerconveyingpumping So very true Darin!!!!
Good morning. I have questions. I'm retired LIUNA member, 30 years in NYC construction. I'm not sure if you are Union or not. I think yes. Are you a Super or a foreman on the pumpers or both? you just mentioned that you got a call that you are needed on another job and you raced over there to help. What about the job you were on, whose covering that one after you leave. Love your content. Good luck in Texas, Herb Wagner out. KEEP ON PUMPIN!
He’s the master plugger of that outfit. He has the most experience unplugging plugs. That’s why he gets the call.
@@BusterPluggsBuster! Get off your phone!!!
@@herbwagner7997 We are a smaller operation, so I do a bit of everything. On this day I was not out on a pump, so was able to divert from what I had going on and run by the site to help out.
I had a mix like this in my line pump once!! I finally got it primed amd thru and i couldn’t pump more then a quarter volume and the mext time i went i couldnt pump it and the thing is i called and told them they had to change the mix or dont call me back. Well sure enough when they called they said they fixed the mix so i get there and guess what…. They didnt change anything. They begged me to try it and dummy me i did and got plugged in 50 ft and never made it any further and told them sorry but im not doing it
@@chadmurphy4345 If this stuff showed up to my line pump I’d call an Uber home!!! 😂😂😂
Even some extra flyash would help it slide more. So would some sand in that gross mix
I had that once priming a 42 for a bridge pour in ab here was a bitch anyways 40 minutes later we pumping. A month later we get a bill 10k for crew standby charge from the builder company out of Ontario it's tough always being on the spot to save the pour and pump garbage at totally our own risk
I’d bill them 12k for having to unplug the pump.
Dodged a huge bullet! Almost had you a boom p*****!
We’re never that lucky here with the heat :( once something goes bad you got about 5 minutes to decide what to do and do it or your banging pipes for the next 8 hours
Captain Crunch, Thats how our mixes look down here!
@@superiorsteeljack I know right? We’re soiled up here with our mixes. I was explaining to Sid that this is everyday in some markets 😂😂😂
looks like our mixes in MN looks like lol
@@MuDemon2023 mixes like this almost make Georgia Buggies seem like a sensible option 😂😂😂
at the end it looks evil
If it will come down the chute it will go out the end of my boom rookies!
@@BusterPluggs By “boom” I’m assuming what you actually mean is hose???
Sounds like you guys had shit Of concrete I would have sent IT back
@@michaelarmstrong3232 the load which plugged the pump was actually sent away.
A Schwing pump would have pumped it anyway good brother keep on pumping!!!
@@carlosgarcia-pi3ti The never ending Putz vs Schwing debate….. here we go!!! 😂😂😂
This everyday mix here in the east...300bar...
You guys not use to it...that stony mix is very common....
@@MaxCrete 100% that was my exact conversation with the QC guy on site. Dealing with rough mixes like this is common place in many/most markets which don’t have the buttery mixes which we are accustomed to pumping here.
Looking at the mix comming out the hose looks like it was short on sand ( bad mix design for a pump , its could have been on the hot side , glad u got it cleaned.
@@canadianconcretepumper1979
Gota make A to B pass...given shit to work with; water doesn't make it better, speed and rpm to manipulate, with good priming technique. maximize your out port to flow. Try not reduce if not needed...5" lay flat is my go to
Work with it not against it....
Run as much steel line and not rubber because of the harsh mixes...
They don't have volume volumetric trucks there
@@vanchecowilson9116 They have become much more common here in the last few years, but still only account for I’d say less than 5% of the concrete delivery trucks on our roads.
@@canadianconcretepumper1979 that wasn't concrete that rockcrete
@@vanchecowilson9116 definitely heavier on rock than what we’re accustomed to seeing around here….
What mix you got? A rock mix, you'll be fine, its a rock pump right? Typical conversation. Followed by whats wrong with your pump? Nothing, whats wrong with your mix? Well it got where its supposed to, right. Well done
@@TheConcreteman006 Best part was once we had the boom pipe back together and had spent 30 minutes blasting out of the cooked hopper with a fire hose, they actually wanted to back that same nuclear hot truck which plugged us up in the first place, back onto the pump… NO BUENO!!!!
@canadianconcretepumper1979 yeah the load is better now, lol. Im cracking up at the long hose downhill shot. Bags over the ends and poke a hole, damn i was thinking i was the only guy that does that. Need really thin bags so the pop easy, just enough to slow things down. I got some stone saved to show what we got going in socal sometimes. Love the videos, appreciate it. Enjoy your sunday
WD
@@TheConcreteman006 So the Costco deli bags which is use are ultra-thin. I’ve used them dozens of times before with zero issue. In this instance, I believe that the first yard of concrete out of that mixer was so rocky than even just the slightest little bit of resistance from these bags was enough to initiate a plug.
@@canadianconcretepumper1979 full agreement...it happens
that's some ugly concrete
@@williamhunter-d1i definitely some of the most “non pump-friendly” material I’ve seen around here in a while.