Overall?... A Morgan, I'm ashamed to admit to have ran one!

 I have a few other "Least favorites" but Morgans are 6 legged junk!

My worst pump was a Schwing 28m on a Western Star. GMC 6-53 and a 913 road ranger. Engine blew black smoke, rear half of fuller was shot, no clutch brake, no binders and I was the lone ranger driving it from where it was deserted in the back of a RM yard on the Western slope to a pour ½ way up to Leadville on the Breckenridge side. I picked the pump up @ 7pm and my pour [45% slope paving] started at 8am the following day. [sleep in the cab]

The remote didn’t work, I had to crawl under it to get it in pump gear, gates were history, turret was ½ full and the air compressor and water pump were shot.

I finished the pour and went back to the plant to wash out [on site plant MM] and the plant was locked and the power for the water pump was off.

I scraped it out, emptied out the pipes and elbows [by myself in the dark]

And left

Mayco LST 60. Every 500 yards we had to replace the cutting ring and wear plate. It could'nt pump slower than 10 yards a hour, so it was tough pumping grout with 2 inch gear. Transcrete was anther line pump that was messed up. It had a cutting ring that floated per-say and was always plugged up in the hopper. Thompsons where great compared to Mayco and Transcrete, if you knew how to short stroke them and take care of them. But then agian the 12-14 cell putz's and the 900-1200 swings made life much easier.

I am sure this thread will be deleted soon!

Hydroseal maxi... Had a brand new 40m in 1990,thought id hit the big time!! Mounted on a foden with a 300 cat fuller etc , slept in the cab(day cab) the night before in minus temperatures  at the painters in derby, then left at 3.30 to start a 500m pour in hull . Had an aluminium hyd.tank which exploded after an hour so ended up with the return pipes in the top. Flat out it did about a load in just over 3mins with the cat running just in the red (was told it was designed like that and it was ok!!) When fully extended over the front the rear 2 axles floated about a foot off the ground,(they had used so much ali. there was no weight to hold it down!) The water pump was a cheap roller type that you could p.. faster than. Got off site at 11.30 pm and drove straight home , got in at 4.30 am and left the keys and my notice on the desk. For any other uk operators remember AFD pumping? ( stands for A F....... Disaster)

Come to think of it theres never been a good english pump!!!

I am sure this thread will be deleted soon!

I think it will make it. This is about one pump not about all of one kind of pump. Even the NASCAR guys build a lemon.

Good to see your still up Bob :)

Bob do you have a chat program running in the back ground? If so what is it. You know like msn messager/yahoo or aim?

Think hydroseal built enough lemons to keep tropicana goin for years :(

Whats the worst pump you've ever been on?

Anything that came from Texas...dayuum!

woodbridge 

MSN

I had a jap kawa it was a lay dwn sqezy wit a 3" tube went into 4" then back into 3" through the nuckles it was a piece of s#*t the boom was a wapping 13m that broke off on a job lucky it was close 2 the ground worts bit of gear we ever had   

Bob, Here's your bad memory... Or was it a Z with a counter weight?

Here's the pile of $hite I was talking about, What a basket case!

TooTall 

Those were really bad pumps ;~)

Bob, Here's your bad memory... Or was it a Z with a counter weight?

The most dependable pump in the world is an old 28 gate. My problem was with that one pump in particular.

Titian 3900 with the spider outrigger design

Mounted on an old Diamond Reo just before the boom broke off.

Raymond, that hurts my soul man. Can't think of any one particular pump, just bad days with them.

I kinda figured that Bob, Coming from a Schwing Man such as your self, that pump had to have been in some really sad shape.

TooTall 

The guy that took over the pump when I drug-up is no longer in the pumping bizz so I guess it is fair to tell the story.

He put up with it for three days and every day the supervisor said that they were going to fix it/get it fixed.

The next day..... same deal, make the pour operating on the stacks, crawl under to do the pto, empty the pipe in the dark - this was the worst pump in the world, NOTHING worked but pump on + pump off.

The last day he put the boom straight up in the air, turned the pump on and never went back. That is how they found it the next morning.......... out of fuel

Classic ;~)

A golden oldie

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Operated a 1983 Whiteman three section boom, my first over head roll and fold in New York City,  GMC truck with 13 speed road ranger.  Try driving out of the city to Long Island at four o'clock I swear my right arm is trice as strong as my left but i'm left handed.  Anyone  bitches about traffic in thier city go eastbound on I495 any afternoon.  One hours drive into city from fifty miles out, fastest return trip three hours and ten minutes

1973 whiteman 92 footer by far the worst pump I ever ran good pump just a pain in the ass to operate the s-tube anyway the spade valves werent to bad if you kept them up

Thomson 32 meter pump w/Cat 3408

CAN YOU IMAGINE

a 3408 pony motor?

If you are hard of hearing now, you would be DEAF with a 3408   I said you would be deaf

Bob,I saw that pump on there site.I liked those old hummers,allot of practice on them.

Whats the worst pump you've ever been on?

A broken one

Mine was the first 45m schwing ever brought to the states.  It was a stiff legg 45 meter on a crane carrier truck from germany. the outriggers were too small and everytime it went out it broke down. and when the truck broke u had  to get parts from germany.

Mine was the first 45m schwing ever brought to the states.  It was a stiff legg 45 meter on a crane carrier truck from germany. the outriggers were too small and everytime it went out it broke down. and when the truck broke u had  to get parts from germany.

As an under age, dipshit, teenage, hotshot, smartass, I used to Love to fire up a Cat motor at sunrise and watch every house in the neighborhood light up! Dogs stopped barking, kids started crying. Man those things are Rude!

1984,or 86 can't remember it still haunts me...

36m rock vavle Nick name " TIGGER"  self explanatory...

wow what a ride wouldn't pump any less than a 6"..

bouncy,bouncy weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee   HANG ON..... weeeeeeeeeeee

TooTall

Thats after the smoke cleared!!

I enjoyed this thread! Thanks!

all good ones, even the 89 32m pile of rost bolts that hasnt moved in 9 months(just kidding, its actually cleaner than my 34), i had to take it to an asap, its a schwing so i made her sing, evenhad a hole in one of the pipes and i had to patch it to finish.

all good ones ,just the ocasional bad day

Here is a titian i seen last year in Odessa ukraine. Check out the ready mix trucks, And are drivers say they have it ruff.

One other thing! If u look close they have put a cab behind the hopper were a driver sits, everytime they need to turn the pump on the driver would put it in gear and give it gas.