What is the better solution for construction? The answer is the concrete pump. The concrete pump is a popular concrete conveying machine to transport and place mixed concrete at the construction site. But how does a concrete pump work to promote work efficiency?
It is necessary for the operator to figure out the work principles of concrete pumps. Because it is important to make it work efficiently and find out the potential risk. In this way, they can fix the general problems when the concrete pumping doesn’t work well.
How Does the concrete ground pump work?
Concrete ground pumps, also called concrete line pumps or fixed concrete pump, place concrete via the extended pipelines running along the ground. Actually, the ground line pump can reach 150 meters vertically and more than 1000 meters horizontally.
If you are undertaking commercial concrete projects, the concrete pump machine is a better solution. Or, when you are working on residential constructions involving concrete infusion, it is also bettter to use concrete ground pump rather than a wheelbarrow.
Here are mainly three different types of concrete ground pump: Concrete trailer pump, Concrete Mixer Pump, truck-mounted concrete pump (here refer as the static pump with a truck chassis).
Concrete trailer pump and truck-mounted concrete pump are similar. Both of them need an extra mixer truck to discharge the ready mixed concrete to the hopper of the pump machine.
First, the concrete pump will suck concrete material out of the hopper into the pumping system. Later, it will push concrete into the pipelines through S-Valve.
The concrete mixer with a pump is able to mix cement by itself because it has a mixer drum. Therefore, it doesn’t need another large mixer truck to convey wet concrete.
The work of mixing and pumping on-site saves much time and labor.
How does the concrete boom pump work?
Not like the concrete line pump, the concrete boom pump doesn’t need a pipeline extended along the ground.
Mounted on the rear of the vehicle chassis, the concrete pumping machine is mainly to facilitate the unloading of the concrete to the placing area.
First, the concrete mixer discharges concrete to the hopper of the small concrete pump truck. Then the Pumping Machine presses the concrete to the conveying pipe and discharges it through the terminal hose.
What’ more, the expansion and retraction of each boom reset on each boom cylinder to complete. Among them, the elevation angle of the first boom can swing in 2° – 90°, and the second and the third boom can swing at 180°.
It’s necessary to mention that the fourth section boom can be expanded in turn, and the movement of the fourth boom is more frequent in construction. The swing-angle range of this section is about 240°.
At last, in the process of concrete construction, the end of the hose should be as close as possible to the pouring part. And the boom can be driven by a rotary motor and reducer to rotate 365 ° around the fixed turret.
After the construction is completed, the boom can be retracted in the reverse order of the original operation.
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