Concrete Pumps & Equipment

A concrete pump is a machine used for transferring liquid concrete by pumping. Concrete pump designers face many challenges because concrete is heavy, viscous, abrasive, contains pieces of hard rock, and sets hard if not kept moving.

There are a number of concrete pumps available for hire or purchase, depending on your needs. The boom pump operates like a multi-jointed crane, delivering large volumes of concrete over houses or walls to those hard to get places. However, boom pumps do take up a lot of room and they need to have a flattish surface to work on. Line pumps are smaller, they deliver concrete through pipes and can be mounted on the back of a small truck. They don’t need as much room to move as the boom pump.

As the name suggests, trailer pumps are towable self-contained units that deliver smaller loads of concrete. Steel or flexible concrete hoses are manually attached from the outlet of the machine to wherever the concrete has to be placed. Line pumps normally pump concrete at lower volumes than boom pumps and are used for pools, pavements, and single family home concrete slabs. Finally, for those super massive jobs you need a tower placing boom – a concrete pump that needs its own mini tower to deliver concrete mix to the highest part of a building site such as an apartment block or skyscraper.

Whether you are putting in a garden path or about to embark on the construction of a 40 storey building, you need to identify the volume of concrete and the location in which you need it place. Then you can determine which of the concrete pumps you need for the job.