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Which concrete pump?
This is a line pump. You can haul the end around It takes 3 men to move it. You can remove sections to make it shorter as you progress.
This web page has two videos about line pumps. What they DON'T show, is moving the pipes around - which is extraordinarily heavy work.
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This are boom pumps. They do most of the work for you.
This image is trying to suggest that if, instead of staging to walk on around the perimeter, you make a floor to walk on at top of formwork level, you will be able to drag a 3" Mixamate pipe around fairly easily and shovel any spillage into your wall form.
Mixamate have pumping mixer trucks. I go into more detail on the page about waterproof concrete. Choose menu item 4 here.
A standard 4" line pump weighs about 100kgs for the last 3m full of concrete. It is hard to bend to your will and extremely heavy to drag around.
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Whereas the 3" Mixamate line is much lighter and more flexible.
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Boom pumps are measured from the ground to the tip of the boom when it is straight up in the air. When it articulates to the side it loses about 4m. Plus it has to be parked with its outriggers a safe distance from an excavation.
Common sizes would be 16m, 20m, 24m, 28m, 32m, 36m, 42m, 52m, 62m and Camfaud have a 72m.
A line pump usually comes with a mix of steel pipes, rubber pipes and bends to pump 30m. They will bring more if you order more.
Never use a line pump unless you have no choice. Especially for walls.
To fill walls properly, you need the boom overhead and you need to lower the rubber pipe a short way between your layers of wall steel reinforcement. That is necessary to shoot the concrete between the steel to the bottom rather than pouring against the steel which will spray concrete in every direction and you will only get stones at the bottom. That is called honeycombing and it will leak.
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