How did you get started pumping concrete whats your story my older brother worked for a  pump company and on weekends he would bring his pump home i head to his house and got to play with a huge bad ass tonka truck well long story short went with him in the summer learnin and pumping pretty cool then he asked me if i wanted to go do a bridge deck a 3am i said i was in hard hat steel toe boots long pants and away we went,  he got sick half way thru the pour i finished job well kinda was really REALLY ROUGH and hose man was black and blue plus gray all over but it beats wheel barrels!!!!!! his boss found out when my bro was hospitalized for appendicitis and almost two months later they hired me to run trailer pump at 18 pretty sweet been doing it ever since and love it kinda like that love you get on your birthday  and ONLY on your birthday if you know what it mean.

oh brother is fine now.  Other than he is a concrete salesman now you all know how they are boulders in the mix and is on a 1 inch slump is 1000 lbs of to much rock, but your pump is a piece of junk and there mix is fine.....  STILL LOVE YOU BRO

While finishing collage, I was driving a mixer to make a few extra $$$.  I coerced the Owner into showing me how to run a pump and havent looked back.  Oh ya, I did graduate, twice as a matter of fact.  With two degrees I still wouldnt change my job unless I absolutely had to.

After I ets'd out of Army at Ft Carson moved to Denver.Hired on as a mechanic with Weaver Const.They bid and recieved a job above Douglass,Wy.Either because I was stuipid or mech inclined I was elected to run a new (used) concrete pump.

It was a Whiteman swing tube trailer (ser #1) in all it's glory.I learned how to pump concrete over the phone (true) and made every mistake one could wish for.There was 100' out and 375' vert and 3" max at pump then down out 375' over face of dam.

I saw a future in pumps and really liked that 2001 that was a back up out of Casper.This is where I met and found out what a jerk Les Ainsworth is (aka LCS).That was 1976,I learned to apprieciate good owners.

Just the facts

i was a young fellow working for pretty good construction company doing manual labor. guys shows up on job to block fill with a reinert trailer pump well lucky me i got to walk the wall and drag that hose across the wall fell in love with it.never looked back. got myself a boom then realized i was in heaven.

started at 15 doing line work for the ol man, then progressed to a trailer pump at 17 when i got my licence, which Was hauling a 30m/hr 3 ton ritemixer( reincarnated case pump) and 100m of line around. Progressed to an ackpump 10.5m boom when i fell asleep one mornin on the way back from a job and wrote the trailer unit off. Then moved up to a p60 with a 750 boom. Some people would like to go back in time-me?-NEVER!!

STARTED AS A LOADER OPERATOR FOR A READY MIX PLANT. WAS ASKED TO SPARE ON A PUMP. THEN ONE OF THE OPERATORS QUIT AND I GOT TO MOVE FULL TIME TO THE PUMP. DID THAT FOR SIX YEARS. NOW I OPERATE THE READY MIX PLANT.

Well I started as a heavy equipment operator operating excavators and dozers and went to mixers then belt trucks and now pumping and regreting every minute of it......lol kidding.

Thanks to this site I have met alot of great guys in Canada the U.S. and most recently a few in the UK Now how cool is that.........oh I forgot about Timo from Sweden....lol

I was twenty and was working for a guy who did timber sales. He also had two concrete pumps a c-30 and a sidewinder rock. It was very slow construction wise but got out a few times a week. A long story later had started pumping on my own, 100 to 200 yards a day,did i mention I was young? Went to a town east of here and set up, mixer driver pulls up and says wheres the job? I said behind the house. He says how am I going to get back there? I said we are going to pump it, He says whats a pump? We have caught up with the millinum now!  

I was building log cabins in E.Tenn and, we did all of our own work except for roofing. One day we were filling block the good old fashioned way with wheel barrows and, buckets so, I told my boss you know they make pumps for this kind of job. So I told him to hire a pump and, if he didnt like it, I would pay for it, well they were in and out in an hour and, my boss said Im buying one of those things and, I became a groutpumper. I operated a use Mayco and, a new Higgins for about three years, till my boss died and, I called a boomcompany and, got hired and, they helped me to get my CDL as well. He said if I could operate operate a grout pump all over the Smokies I was hired. My last block job was 4 block high in the front of the house and, 100 block high in the back.

I started out like 38Zman running heavy equipment and gravel trucks. A little over a year ago our pump operator ( so-called ) decided to quit so I was asked if I wanted to do it. He gave his 2 week notice went out with me one day then never came back. After practicing in the yard doing some booming to get the hang of it I headed out to my first set of walls. That pump was a 1986 32m schwing which I ran for 2 months, then my company bought a 2007 36m Putz which I still operate today and enjoy every minute of it.

When asked if I would go back to trucking I just tell them that even my worst day pumping with even constant plugs, is still better than any day of trucking.

Well I was 20 rorking for a small contractor mainly as a mechanic but I set some forms and such. He had a 23m B\W Schwing on a F9000 cab,POS dam thing was always breaking down so I got pretty familar with it. One weekend he broke his leg so Monday I had to go run it. Did nt even know how 2 prime out(just what id seen watching on sites) Long story short been DOIN DA DAMN THANG since 97. Now I can/have run just about everything, but I realy wish I was in a big shop turnin a wrench! But Damn I Love Pumpin!!!!!

Going on my 27th year,,,   My uncle had a pumping company in East Texas, went to work for him about 1983 I thinks,  had a Hercules Line Rig a cpl 875 Thompsens and a few 32m 3 sec putzs,,  Moved to Virginia in August of 1988. Been here ever since, pumped concrete in 15 states, roughest mud i ever seen is here in Virginia,, You Want a Job? I need a good operator

started when i was twenty. SHOP BOY. you know sweep floors clean clamps ,fix em repair em pipe em etc. etc..buy beer for opers,started out shooting pools kept moving up from there.too many pumps to remember,pumps alot of you guys and ladies never hearld of.thirty three years later still with the same company....

My Dad bought in 2003 an old 875 thomsen 1979 and after the first month he was working with he got his hand eaten by the flipper valve while cleaning it .(He wanted to save time so he let it pump very slowly to clean each side )So two weeks later my dad was going to the hospital in the morning while i was at school and after he was driving and i was operating and cleaning the pump.This is how we started.We run up to four pumps my dad,my brother,me and a employe.Today we are only me and my brother .I got a 36m and he got a 28m .

started at 19 as a concrete cutter for a company that also had pumps trained on pumps when I didnt have a saw job 3 months later running a 28 meter whiteman havent looked back , sometimes I think I shouldve. But most times I still love the all nighters which is what I am on now and just concrete pumping in general, the pumping doesnt get old the business end of it sucks but thats just the way it is.  

When I was 16 my neighboor pulled up in a big ass truck and a schwing 1250 bigrock pump behind it.Started going with him on the weekends and school vacation days until i was 18 and then ive been pumping on my own ever since then. now im 20 and own 50 % of a pump and making good money glad i stuck with it.

Yo! Pouritout im interested contact me.

at 18, finished high school, formed and placed for for 4 years before i ever saw a boom pump.  Had a smooth operator and he knew id never seen a boom before from the whites of my eyes through my sun glasses.  within a year i had a job doin P&D and class 1 driving.  Feb 05 started pumpin and still lovin it.  tire side down

ive been  told the best part of me ran dowm my daddys leg

Then moma must have been good in the outfield lol

started off as a tea boy/yard boy when 16yrs old. started going out as a linesman, now am 26yrs old this yr and operate a schwing s42sx. wot did i do to deserve this? if only i was better at making a cup of tea LOL. 

 in 92 i was driving a mixer,and the first time i backed up to a pump i was impressed,a brand spankin new 52m putz.awsome i told Butch the oper.from carolina concrete pumping.now coastal carolina.talked to him and all other opers.i deliverd to,they told me to stay where i was .i did for ten years and was recruted by opers where i am now,and there all gone.i guess what realy got me was that sound,you know the one at 2 or 3 in the early morning when the pump is strolling and all else is quiet? is it just me or can you hear it to? I love it.