An Overview Of Concrete Pumping
Concrete pumping is not something new, and actually does mean they pump concrete. Being a liquid this substance can be pumped at high volumes and with the assistance of the proper kind of equipment can deliver concrete into very tight places where a typical concrete truck would never fit.
Pumping Services – These pumping services are usually thought of as huge construction company facilities, and are contracted to pump concrete into high rise building construction sites where it is impossible to achieve the same volume of delivery by any other means. However, concrete pumping is also done in any residential, or industrial area where streets are too narrow for large trucks.
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 you have ever considered the marvels of the industrial world, these machines that pump concrete make it possible to complete construction feats that would otherwise be cost prohibitive due to time and money constraints. Most roadways in the major cities have considerable construction of ramps that were fed by concrete pumping equipment. Skyscrapers also are evidence of Concrete Pumping Ontario and silos on farms are practical uses of where concrete was pumped into the structure.
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