Concrete pumping, as impossible as it sounds, truly is something that can be done. Since it is a liquid, concrete lends itself well to being pumped at considerably high volumes. When assisted by the right kind of equipment it can be delivered into unbelievable places where a standard concrete delivery process would never make it.
Pumping Services – When thinking in terms of pumping concrete, one usually thinks of large construction companies who have been contracted to get concrete into some huge building construction where other means of delivery are not possible. Even though this is typical there are concrete pumping rigs that deliver into tightly constructed residential ares for smaller jobs but the streets are too narrow for big rigs.
Other places concrete pumping services are used would be where a smaller rig can be sent in to pour swimming pools, sidewalks and where new housing construction needs home concrete slabs. You or someone you know might very well be living in a house that had the concrete floor pumped in by one of these services.
Pumping Equipment – The type of equipment that is called a boom can very easily reach 300 meters, and is probably the answer to your question about how concrete was poured into some of those tall support frames. It was most likely a boom mounted on a truck that delivered it. This equipment looks huge when the boom is extended, but will fold up and remain nestled into brackets mounted on a truck that looks very similar to a long fire truck.
When there is no way to drive a concrete mixer truck into the location or tie up traffic for that many years, you will likely find a boom truck handling at least part of the job.
If you can picture the head of a monstrous mosquito who is using its mouth (proboscis) to inject concrete into a designated area all the way up and over buildings and then down into some alley, that is kind of what these boom trucks look like. Having this ability these rigs can reach into some of the most unbelievable places that would otherwise be impossible to manage getting any other type of equipment in there. These can also be seen in big city construction where one of these rigs might be on top of a building across the street from where the concrete is to be pumped. And using this long boom they stretch way above the cars below to deliver concrete to a building across the road.
A second type is called a line pump which has a slower volume, but is able to get into the places where a boom rig will not fit. These pump concrete into such jobs as doing ground slabs or swimming pools, even sidewalks.
If there were ever such a thing as a marvel of inventions, these concrete pumping machines make it possible to do construction jobs that would otherwise take decades and an endless supply of money to complete. Most of the roadways in major cities are a result of the use of concrete pumping technology. Large skyscrapers are also being built with the use of Concrete Pumping Ontario advancements, and farmers who need a new silo are getting that done, all with the practical use of these rigs that can pump concrete to vertical heights.
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