http://zoomlion.com/english/products/concrete/HBZ8017Gc4506.html

And you thought a Mack MR cab was crappy!! 

Whats the point? Or application for this machine to be mounted like this?

A good question...I dunno.

Can you imagine how dirty the windsheild would get?  

Is it legal to drive down the road. I would hate to get by that thing driving down the road.

Pretty apparent you back in and have more boom reach.

Yea Pumpjockey the windsheild thing is a joke. It is not street legal here anyway. You have no right side vision. Blocked by the boom.

Just do not get it. No special drive tran for off road. Like to see if some had any site pictures of this pumping somewhere. Just cannot imagine a benefit.

Hbz6017 self-propelled boom concrete pump was specially developed and designed by ZOOMLION for the construction of ballastless rail on passenger line, it combines the three functions of self-propelled driving, pumping and distributing into one, it is mainly used in on-site concrete pouring of Rader 2000, two-block rail system sleeper layer and plate ballastless rail base. It meets the working conditions of road, bridge and tunnel construction on railways while the railway construction is on two-rails without makeshift rail which is typical to China.

The design of the whole machine is simple, compact and practical. This vehicle integrating the three functions: self-propelled driving, pumping aid and distributing into one, thus features easy operating and flexible. It can be used in narrow construction area, and it also fit for the pavement pouring in different road and railway construction projects, and for concrete pumping aid and pouring under different industries and occasions such as piers, roadside facilities, as well as pre-cast beam.

Its specially designed wheel-rail switching chassis enables the self-propelled distributor be applicable for both roads and railways. The structure of the chassis is compact while its configuration is flexible and can be configured to a double-function chassis for both road and railway or a single wheel-traveling conventional chassis, minimize the cost of different equipment in different geological conditions.

Very interesting conception.

drug test the designer of that pump he smoking something!!!!!!!!!

Can you imagine the blind spot while driving that pump. In a Mack MR you can lose a whole vehichle in the windsheild pillar.

And on Highway/Freeway applications it doesnt have to be turned around in the opposite direction like conventional pumps and the counter wieght minimizes the outrigger footprint.

I don't get it! what's the design advantage here?