Blew the 6 to 5 reducer. Had to hustle to save the boom pipe. Pumping concrete with Muddyfeet
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- We plugged on the prime out which blew the 6 to 5 reducer. When the the 6 to 5 reducer blew it made it where we couldn’t clean our boom out by sucking a sponge back. So we had to hustle and use air to clean out.
I am continually impressed with y’all’s work ethic. You are a tremendous boss...crap happens and you handle it with ease. Great work
Thank you. Thanks for watching
Before folding up and finding the washout, Pull the 45 elbow off the end of the 6-5 reducer. Shove a ball in the deck and put your blowout cap on. Blow the whole boom at once right into whatever you were pouring. If you don’t get any movement, break the elbows between 2-3 and blow both ways. At least then you narrow down where the plug is if there is one. Always idle the truck up all the way so it builds air as fast as possible. That’s a shit day! I feel for ya.
Sounds like good advice
Love that you show the bad times just like you show the good times. Great work
Yes that is my intentions
Only one quack for the whole vid, impressive. If I was there it would have been a whole flock quacking. Nice save none the less.
Lol. We try to keep it clean.
Just one flock??
Thanks for sharing. Everyone has days like this. But you handled it like a professional. Anything man made will break. Just have to be prepared for when it's going to happen. Been on huge EPA clean up for week and a half. Been tough because someone else started it and made a mess out of it. Ended up repairing tank and pouring over 15,000 yards of concrete in ring around tank 8 inches thick and huge pond 6 inches think and ditches 6 inches think. Dump site 25 miles away. So just now doing extra work replacing asphalt and extra building slab and walls then done. So been working around the clock to beat the hurricane season. But great video
Where’s your project at? Sounds interesting
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping North Florida.
That's what its supposed to be all videos about concrete pumps....the good and the worst days
Best regards from Romania
I have learn allot from your videos I am concrete pump operator here
Thanks for watching.!!!
You are very correct about buying parts local at times
Dirt Perfect sent some viewers your way. Lover your channel. Lots of hard work, common sense and exceptional work ethic. Glad I'm watching.
Thank you for watching!!!! That’s a great bunch of guys.
I had my 6 to 5 reducer blow and used 5"pvc cut in half. I just taped and put two clamps around it to get the job done. It worked great!
I like the duck quacks!!! There would be a lot more of them if it was me. Lol. I try not to but sometimes those situations can get to you, great video and great team work. See yall next time
Michael Sailors thanks for watching. We try to keep it clean.
The best part is when you get everything cleaned out, you look around & realize how much of a shithouse mess the pump is. Hell, I've had concrete on the top of my transmission. Glad you got it cleaned out.
Bobby G thanks man!
Thats what honey oats cereal does to me at @12:07 I haven't laughed that hard at one of my dumb comments in a long time. great video.
Lol oatmeal does it to me also.
Glad you got it cleaned out.
Thanks man. I was worried for a little while.
Omg.. what a show ! Good job guys. Great work and another great video .
Thanks man!
When a straight forward job turns into a nightmare, the only thing that will change it is old fashion grunt work and Hussle!
bout time you show the real hustle....here lately its just been a pain to pump anything...plant can never get the mix right on top of it being super hot at 6 am
dave flash life’s a box of chocolates.
Mate felt for you blokes, good job on saving the boom, I tell ya what young Bill is a good operator
He’s solid
Hey buddy, this inspired me to special order a 6 - 5 reducer hose with HD ends and the exact length required. (we've got two identical 34 meter Schwing pumps. This baby is just a back up. Always on stand by waiting for one of those tapered pipes to screw up lol. ( I chose to go with a back up hose and not a pipe for flexibility, just to get the sponge pulled back quickly.
Where did you order it my good sir
the beauty of having a 5" blowout cap, pull the reducer, put your sponge in, open the back end and put the air to it. cant imagine what kind of hell that must be in that texas heat, but a little ass kicking now is better than writing the check for all that boom pipe (even though you already bought new stuff)
HighTQCummins yeah we couldn’t get air to push the plug. That’s why we started opening it all up. But yes It’s all new now. Should be able to see in a couple of videos.
I wish I had 10$ for every time I've seen that happen. Duct tape and old coffee cans are a pumpers best friend. LOTS OF DUCT TAPE. LOL
If we had been further in the job we would have gotten creative. But luckily they only had to divert a couple of trucks.
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping it's not if it blows but when it blows.
John Davidson unfortunately you are right about that
Many a time a soda can wrapped around the pipe wrapped in duct tape save me from having a good ol' fashioned boom party.
Bobby G yes your right on there.
Have you thought of keeping an electric pressure washer on the truck? We use a 3000W inverter, 40a dc/dc converter, and it's own battery (to not fry the alternator). Nothing like getting hot mud off quick and avoid the acid. It does wonders on the hopper and uses a fraction of the water vs. a hose.
When the days starts good then turns bad and cost more money than you would of made plus.
Good to have a back up place to buy parts now as appose to being shut down for a day or more.
Good job on saving the other pipes.
Thanks, just the cost of doing business.
How do you recover in time before the concrete dries from the cement truck? What do they do when they cannot offload at the jobsite??? How does that exception process normally unfold?
I didn't the same exact thing last fall!! Make you really appreciate the good days lol
I think at some point it will happen to all of us. I have personally blew out the 6x6. It didn’t even flap open. It had a solid piece come off of it. Not fun
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping yeah that's doesn't sound real fun!
Mud flap with six inch hose clamps works ama,ing for the 6 to 5 reducer... pop cans and duct tape for the rest
Nick Bright not a bad idea
Well he took the cake you had a bad gasket leaking dirtying your truck he just plain covered his truck lol good vid men
Wesley Shoup thanks for watching. We always have something to fix or clean.
There has to be some type of how many hrs to change all the wear parts. Wow you were right about the time to change them. That job you did in morning was the limit on that pipe. Get that blood pumping ehe all that money getting hard in yr pipes.
Yardage could get you in the vicinity of when to change things out. The type of material in the concrete want allow you to be exact.
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping so really have to watch what goes in yr pump I guess.
wow i never seen that before i have from 5" to 4" hoses, glad no one was hurt. saludos
Yeah I’m glad no one was standing bi it also. Thanks for watching!
How long do the pipes last? And after blowing the sponge thru, how do you clean the little bit of concrete left in the pipes? Thanks for showing this.
I’m told 50,000 yards. Once the sponge hoes through it’s clean enough for the next job.
you are a good boss ! 👍🏾👍🏾
so much for EASY money! do what it takes when it takes it.
Hammer, soda can, duct tape, easy temporary fix, keep pumping!
Good idea
I don't suppose someone makes ExLax for Trucks do they?
Cause your Truck sure as heck needed some today...
Just another day in paradise!!
Yeah, Paradise. Lol
22:39 I have to disagree...
That didn't Suck...
That Blew...
That Blew Chunks all over the Truck and street...
is this the truck that was hit? wonder if it made a slight bulge about where it blew out?
MrPerry61 no, that was our 38 meter that was hit.
i know the parts even the gaskets are a pretty penny.. but a back up is in order now to have at all times... stay safe and keep your feet in the mud
Yes fortunately we don’t have to replace that very often.
A video of how you clean that truck would be very informative. Sorry you guys got the horns of the bull. I also have found new repair sources when the chips are down, funny how that works.
Greg Stone yeah I didn’t think about that. Will try in the future. We are always trying to clean the concrete off of these things.
The struggles... Are real!
michael robbins and expensive. Thanks for watching
Had a colleague change his entire boom earlier this year. 28m new pipe, at least he saved the pump pistons on his rotary pump.
Yes that was good. Limited the damage.
say about how many yards does your pipe last give or take?
Single wall I’m told should last around 50,000 yards.
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping thank you sir!
That's crazy that exact scenario happened to me the other week. The mechanic said new pipe was ordered for my pump and a few days later the 5 to 6 blew out on prime out. But it separated it into two separate pieces. There was like a 2" gap from the clamp to the pipe.
James Coppola wow. I bet that was something to see.
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Sir I just watched your video and I wanted to let you know that there is an easier way to clean your pipes when this happens take your hammer and Hammer the whole back into place as best you can and then take a grocery sack trash bag put that over the rip in the pipe and duct tape the living shit out of it and then drop the reducer they're at the tip hose and put your ball in there and put the pump in Reverse DO NOT STROKE FORWARD or you will just blow a hole right where you duct tape it this is strictly to get your pipes cleaned so that you can wash out this is not to finish the job It will not take the ball back immediately but every stroke that you take in reverse is sucking the air out of that and I promise you it will take the ball back if that is airtight and just so that you know if you were going to use a blowout cap with air to clean your pump say for instance if that pipe was completely blown in half you were not able to get an airtight seal on it for some reason you don't need to go Section by section just nock off the 45° elbow right there at the deck pipe and put your ball in there and put your blowout cap on right there it will blow the entire boom clean instead of doing section by section The only time that I have seen that you cannot seal a pipe with i trash bag and duct tape to get cleaned out is if you blow a hole in your turret pipe because there is no way to get to that to tape it up and if that happens and believe me it will if you pump long enough you put one ball in your deck pipe and put that reverse to clean it back to the hopper and then put the other ball in your first elbow coming out of the torrid and put a blow out cap on it and blow it out with air that is the only time that I have had to use air to clean the pump or if the pump itself actually breaks down
I am by no means criticizing you you did a great job in getting your pump clean I just wanted to let you know that there's an easier and safer way to do it I hope this helps
L. Lucky
How long does the pipes & elbow's last on your trucks?
I really don’t know. Reason being it depends on the different type of material that gets pumped through it. They say typically 50,000 yards.
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Devil's avocado, accidents can be prevented. Good save boys.
Great content. Thank you very much.
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Well done guys. Great job. I bet the mixer driver took just as long to clean his underwear. Not what anybody needs but these things happen 👍
I’m not sure but it made a heck of a mess on our backside.
How often do you need to replace the pipe on those Trucks?
It varies on yardage and type of concrete you pump. Somewhere around 50,000 yards though
We carry spare reducers, elbows, all make up pipes and a 3m. On deck!! No excuses swap it out and finish the job
Good for y’all!!!
Mark and date the replacement parts .memory fails us old farts.
Rotate and the curves and pipes daily , what a Damn mess 👣 fortunately Not over the cab of the truck . the chain is as strong as the weakest link .😅👨🔧❤️
We do rotate. Probably not as often as we should but we do.
What a dam mess.
That was close
No kidding
What a f****** mess as if messing with mud as hot as it is and dirty as it is isn't bad enough good job boys
Hopefully will be good for a couple of years now
Is there a manufacture's spec for pipe replacement vs hours?
I’m not sure
Would like to see you make some handy platforms at the elbows that need occasional changing, so you don't need to tightrope on pipes. Just sayin.. a fall or slip could put you out of commission, worse than a 5-6 pipe blow-out.
Ahhhh....that's concrete pumping...sometimes good Time... sometimes Big problèmes
Yep your right
Job name on the ticket: Murphy...
Lol
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Good to have friends
It does
I think after this, you should give that poor Truck a serious bath and then a TLE (Tender Loving Enema) just to be sure all it's lines are nice and clear...
After all, a Constipated Concrete Pumper is NOT a happy camper...
And if it ain't happy, ain't NOBODY happy...
Oh that sucks. My kinda luck. At least it didn’t involve a rivet buster. Got 50 gallons of HD acid if you want some. Will pull those splatters right off. Welcome to some
Jimmy Stuckey i bought a product the other day we are going to try. Will do a review on it.
I whould have put the blowout cap on the end of the boom and blown it back to the Hopper before I whould have folded up and moved and clean up the concrete on the road after lot easier to clean sum mud off the road then have a boom party and wit how HOT it is in TEXAS five mins can make big difference.
The boom being plugged wouldn’t allow us to clean the boom out.
I think when you’re working close to the truck you might wear some hearing protection. Oh and carry some duct tape in the tool box. Duct tape fixes everything 😀
LAZY DOG we’ve got gorilla tape and radiator clamps.
Just curious who pays for mud sitting there?
I do. Or will.
You sure made a mess of that, hard to find good help.... a little duct-tape should take care of that hole.... hehe
Ivansgarage Lol I was debating it will Bill to hammer it back close and wrap it with a ratchet strap.
Damn that would have to give you some " muddy feet" 🤭
Definitely nerve racking
Why did you break a new pipe on the truck are ready
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What a mess, shit happens, lots of cleaning to do.
Oh yeah. We got it cleaned though.
And the nagging question is did ya get the blowout on camera???
Brian Schmitt no or it would have been in the video.
You could of saved time, but just a framing the boom and taking the pipe that blew out off and attaching the blow off cap to the straight pipe and blew the concrete out through the tip all in one shot.
More than one way to skin a cat. Thanks for watching!
Wow i know concrete pumps had lot of pressure but not this much.
Deboy 2014 oh yeah. They are monsters for what they do.
Now you have a mess to clean up
I would put my spare 6/5 reducer on and keep pumping on he didn’t have one cubby pump operator!!!
At least someone thinks ahead. Cubby. Lol
Let's buy a pump, it'll be fun, they said...
scw2cool #WWG1WGA yeah and will make lots of money. Lol
Keep up the good show. Better than what's on TV. Cheers
scw2cool #WWG1WGA thanks man!
If you guys have a whole pipe kit coming why not just take them all off now and dump em?
We used a fork lift and picked them all off clear full of concrete.. boom parties are the best
John Rosewaren easier to blow them out. But when this happened I hadn’t received the pipe yet.
Muddyfeet Concrete Pumping my biggest problem is I comment before I even pay attention what happens in the videos 😂
John Rosewaren I see that a lot. Lol. Someone will make a comment and I’m like that’s in the video. Lol. Never know if they get distracted or not.
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Wow i don't wish that on anyone!
Devin Jackson Lol. I wouldn’t either
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping my coworker split a seam on #4 duct tape the heck out of it and kept pumping
Devin Jackson yes we’ve taped some elbows before.
Pressure washer down, let her dry and spray it with some concrete dissolver, rinse and repeat. I would call that a boom parting, if it wasn't for that dam plug, could have blew it all down. But you guys saved her! Good job done!
Dear god
Banas Concrete Service Lol never a dull moment.
Isn't your driver at fault for not checking on the first load not mixed right. Even thought you alway put the blame on the cement company
Bill Beck No, if it has a lot of coarse sand in it you’ll never get it mixed enough. Concrete companies don’t understand what man sand does to our equipment and to the finish of the concrete. They just know it’s cheap filler and it helps their bottom line. I will run my mouth about that till hell want haven it anymore.
Hello sir
Howdy
Pound on it,it's a truck not a breast.
I was watching your video and there was a Biden for president add on the video! WTH
I don’t pick my commercials.
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping lol !
I know but that's a slap in the face!
Or rob a cannon off of another pump to finish that job?🤷🏼♂️
John Rosewaren didn’t have another to rob. The other was out pumping.
Muddyfeet Concrete Pumping I recommend schwing pipes those things last forever
My friend, you just duck tape it and finish the job, and you can even pull sponge ball back, done it million times
Didn’t feel comfortable doing that.
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping why not, you save your self of mess and losing time, try next time , we dot call it american tape for nothing
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping it's all about expirience and to get it you have to pay the price of trouble and hard work, and by the time when you now every thing about pumping you wish to retire and you are to old for pumping
Violetta Castiljo more than likely he wouldn’t have been able to get the plug broken up without blowing it out again. Who knows
Violetta Castiljo unfortunately so. Thanks for commenting