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Using concrete pump trucks to pour foundations is becoming quite popular. Pump trucks provide several major benefits which most concrete sub-contractors are taking advantage of on a regular basis.

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Using concrete pump trucks to pour foundations is becoming quite popular. Pump trucks provide several major benefits which most concrete sub-contractors are taking advantage of on a regular basis. The concrete pump truck pictured on this site has a reach of 100 feet horizontal.

Traditionally concrete trucks would pull up to the forms and dump the concrete down the shoot and into the forms. This required a very level, stable path around the entire perimeter of the construction site. As you can imagine creating a path around the building site can be quite challenging and costly.

picture of concrete pump truck

Using the pump truck allows the site excavation contractor to excavate for the foundation and keep the surplus material piles much closer to the foundation. In this case the soil is very clean sand that trucks cannot drive on without sinking into site.

Concrete pump trucks like the one pictured have an articulating boom with a pump hose mounted on it. At the rear of the truck is a large hopper that the concrete trucks pull up to and dump concrete into. The pump then forces the concrete up the boom and down to a rubber tremie hose where the concrete is discharged into the forms. The truck driver / operator controls the boom with a remote control. That way the driver can get close to the concr picture of concrete pump truck and concrete trucks

picture of concrete pump truck and concrete trucks

ete crew for safe visual and verbal communication.

Today's concrete pour was 56 cubic yards. If you know much about houses and residential foundations that's a BIG foundation! If the weather holds out the crew will start removing the forms tomorrow and over the weekend so that the site crew can backfill the foundation and prepare the sub-grade for the slabs.

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