I drive front discharge Terex and Oshkosh trucks. Quad axles. We add our color at the plant. We do 10 gallons of water in the barrel first, add the color, then do regular loading with the aggregate, powder, and chemicals per customer order. Any pours that take more than one truck, we try to even the same amount of water in the loads for every truck so the color pigment is consistent.
A company called Smyrna Ready mix out of Nashville Tennessee has purchased almost every plant in northern Alabama. They even bought the local rock crusher. SRM has been introducing front discharge trucks in our area ever since and they are good but on line pumps when we get into situations where we stop and go more than we should they tend to overflow my hopper. Driver says he couldn’t tell I stopped. I use a wireless remote though so I’m not standing at the pump. I think they have potential to be way better for pumping but especially for the finishers when they don’t need us. By the way I don’t have my wheelbarrow license either. Lol
I drive a Terex FDB-4000 2011. Unless they use a different type of color sometimes the contractor puts in the color and we mix for 10 minutes to get a good mix. My company is in Upstate New York and a lot of the companies but Hanson run Front Discharge trucks in my area.
I drive a front load mixer. We’re 6 wheel drive. We can drive anywhere. Instead of wheelbarrowing that front loader could have come around the other end of the building and pulled right up to the job. Saved time.
Them front dump trucks are nice for doing garage floors and the inside of buildings. Akron, Ohio has both types of trucks for concrete. It all depends on who the contractor can get the cheapest price for the mix on their job.
my dad help.revolution the design on those front discharge trucks back in 1989. the company he worked for imvented the front discharge truck. so after being one of the top drivers in indiana, they took.him to the factory to give his advice to make the trucks better, hince the saftey cage on top, i actually did a video on it
We have one company up here and that's all they have. It's great sometimes, but other times I would rather back them in myself. There's also those drivers who don't pay attention or are on the phone texting while trying to fill the hopper and it results in a mess. Hope to see you all at Con-Expo in Vegas mid March.
I'm from northern Indiana, the truck's were invented just a few mile's from me by Jim Irving which they later become Advance mixer's. That's all we have up here, usually 100 yd minimum to get a pump, we bobcat it or buggy it. Pain in the butt. Wished we could use pump's more often. the Cadillac of front end mixer's are the osh-kosh.
That is the only type truck we have in Michigan! Will be easier on your hopper than the rookie reversing in your conventional trucks... Ha Ha (Merry Christmas, Happy New Year)
Wondered why the front dumps were not seen in your area. We in WI have about 100% front dumps, since prolly 20-25 years ago. Seems much safer for you guys working around those front dumps. They can see you and don't have to rely on someone backing up to your trough.
The company I work for had all rears until about 1990 and hasn’t gone back since. The fronts are more time efficient, all the action is right up front. No need for a guy holding your chute and telling you where to go. If I’m doing side walks, I pull up flip my 2 flips from the cab, maybe add a chute and then I’m the guy controlling the job, everything is visibility in my rear view camera so I set the pace of the job and I have 100% visibility of all the moving parts of the operation as I back away from the workers. The owner is a 40 year mixer driver, had the rears noticed a visible increase in production with the fronts. People run rears becuase they are way cheaper, it’s a regular straight job truck that you bolt a drum on to, where the fronts are 300k 1 use set ups. You ain’t pulling a drum off a front and selling it to a roll off dumpster guy like you could with the rears. That’s that down side of the fronts.
Front Discharge Concrete Pumps is the most safety and easy to work at the concrete pumps is using a lot right here an florida georgia and the Carolinas we have an Orlando Masmeyers concrete is work right now around the new Universal Studios unique inside Concrete Plant
I've never seen a front discharge truck either around here its only been rear discharge mixer trucks up to 13 cubic yard tandem tandem with rear booster.
I used front loaders at my house pour due to soft soils. They have 6 wheel drive with fat tires A rear loader almost got stuck on the first load, the front drove around no problem. Northern South Carolina
Yeah I'm from Ohio and SRM bought out the company I used to work for and I'm 90% sure that blue and white paint combo is one of our old mixers from Ohio, that's pretty cool seeing it got shipped all the way down to yall lol
i get my oshkosh stuck all the time. cell towers up the side of a mountain with a d-6 dozer pulling you up the hill is fun to but all our contractors fight over the front dumps
The guy on that massive hose is getting a work-out, must be a 5 inch hose? In Australia we use 3 or 3.5 inch hoses on the end of the booms much easier to push around and less splashing of the mud.
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping going good trying not to put on to much weight lol. Been plenty of snow so far this winter season and have a bit over 2 1/2 mounts left to go. Not abnormal just a snowy year this year. So have you found a truck to replace the one you are selling. No I do not need a pump truck maybe 30 years ago would of been nice lol.
Ooh, a front discharge mixer.... we don't have them at all on this side of the pond..... 🤔🤷♂️ That bloke in the black dress was the concreters version of Darth Vader, doing exactly opposite what you expected 🤣🤣🤦♂️ Are you going to retake your wheelbarrow license, or will all the health and safety stuff put you off ??? 🤔
What happened to the guy that ran the pump trailer? Is the other guy that ran the smaller boom truck still with you, and lastly are you and Bill partners in the business? Thanks
I don't generally comment much anymore as my body is shutting down from my injury that has left me a crip. I hate being like this but enough whining about me. I have thought about how powerful our dmv is and how they could really be helpful if they gave companies a little more leeway on the road making it a offense to crowd those trucks on the road when traveling freeways. Time is of the essence when delivering mud to the outlying areas they have to travel as mud just doesn't do well if held in a truck too long. talking to the choir there hu... I watched those crashes of "22" and seen trucks spill and go over cause of being to tight on those corners that required the driver to go a certain speed to keep up with traffic yet in a tight corner the mud will sag the rig and then corner "NO more" so over it has to go. Just a thought from this old school mechanic of over forty years continuous time fixing stuff on this type of equipment........ going to go a bit much on my comment here.... As a kid of just short of a teenager and full of rebellion, I got all my "gang" together and we decided since the people putting in a pool had to leave for a while and get more cash ready to finish up the walkways around this area. The pool was poured and filling up with rain water.... perfect for us kids to play in yet we were told to just stay the H E double hockey sticks away. We had the river to swim in and if we drowned so much the better. Okay challenge accepted! We all stole every kind of fish, mostly goldfish and other kinds of fish that did not need running water to stay alive.. winter cold was over and we all had goldfish in our bedrooms back in the fifties. I would go to a store that had fish in their bowls and take some saran wrap, and capture as many as possible for our project "Fill that Pool"!! We kinda over did ourselves an it was just brimming with feeder fish for the bigger fish. So from the months that went by and no one showing up to finish this project, we kinda lost interest in our screw you back project. Now about four or more months have gone by and we check out our project. We had a bunch of cornmeal and such to give to them if any were still alive. Just for a moment imagine the surprise on our faces! That huge pool, a good fifteen by twenty something was just full of huge goldfish. They ate the croppi and other fish we had donated to them and they had bitten off of the survivors tails and backs like pyrona or some other kind of fish that would eat anything. We tossed in our sacrifices to them an the water just boiled up! They were hungry as all get out! Not one of us was brave enough to dive into that water with all the insults we tossed at each other.. so we grabbed one little member to give him the scare of his total life and he turned into a cougar fighting for everything he was worth and blacking my eyes as well as others and leaving deep scratches on us which almost made us want to toss him in for real. The owners did come back and were in shock. They poison ☠ ☠ off all of them and gathered us kids up who we all deigned any wrongdoing!! Those dead fish smelled so awful and we still had to clean the pool. I can say that some of those goldfish were over two foot long and probably weighed a good five or more pounds. We filled a log of burlap bags up and had to toss them into a dump truck which meant to we empty the bag and reuse it. I thought about my part of this and vowed to never mess with mother nature again. Of course those promises always fail but that is for another comment on someones channel.
Funny that’s the only mixer I’ve ever worked with, rear discharge seems like wasted manpower to me. These were originally designed waaaay back years ago, in the town I grew up in.
They're all wheel drive so they can get around all up better than you think and they can dump in that pump easy no problems there seeing it occur millions of times
I drive front discharge Terex and Oshkosh trucks. Quad axles. We add our color at the plant. We do 10 gallons of water in the barrel first, add the color, then do regular loading with the aggregate, powder, and chemicals per customer order. Any pours that take more than one truck, we try to even the same amount of water in the loads for every truck so the color pigment is consistent.
Front discharge trucks are amazing with the right driver, and with 6 wheel drive mixed with those 425 tires, they are hard to get stuck.
they are so much better in the mudd and most the time you dont even need a pump on the type of jibs we do. keep grinding bro
I don’t like them then. Send them back
A company called Smyrna Ready mix out of Nashville Tennessee has purchased almost every plant in northern Alabama. They even bought the local rock crusher. SRM has been introducing front discharge trucks in our area ever since and they are good but on line pumps when we get into situations where we stop and go more than we should they tend to overflow my hopper. Driver says he couldn’t tell I stopped. I use a wireless remote though so I’m not standing at the pump. I think they have potential to be way better for pumping but especially for the finishers when they don’t need us. By the way I don’t have my wheelbarrow license either. Lol
I’m from Detroit,and for sure we’ve used front loaders for ever and a day.They’re great once you get used to it.💯👊🏾
👍
People kill me with that I’ve never seen one of those before. Every time I pull on a job the first thing they do is grab the chute 😂😂😂
It’s just habit.
I drive a Terex FDB-4000 2011. Unless they use a different type of color sometimes the contractor puts in the color and we mix for 10 minutes to get a good mix. My company is in Upstate New York and a lot of the companies but Hanson run Front Discharge trucks in my area.
I drive a front load mixer. We’re 6 wheel drive. We can drive anywhere. Instead of wheelbarrowing that front loader could have come around the other end of the building and pulled right up to the job. Saved time.
That was a awesome vid thanks for sharing
Cheers from Nova Scotia
Fronts are better because you don't have to back them up to the pump and they can hit their air horn when they're empty.
Seem simple enough
Awesome awesome job u did Bill and be safe and always be careful doing what y'all do each and every day
Thanks and happy New Year!
those cement trucks are very common in the Midwest 90% of the trucks in northern Indiana. I think that gives the drivers much more control
Definitely give them better visibility
in MN, we're 99% rear dump
In Illinois, I'm not sure I've ever seen a front discharge. Granted out weight laws are odd.
That hose guy was amazing in Pittsburgh we call that pimping the hose lol
Nicely done, looks like everybody is tried. Long year!! Hope you guys had a great Christmas and have a Happy New Year🎉 thanks for sharing!!👍🇺🇸
Thanks max!
503👍 's up thank you for sharing 🤠
I can't even think of a situation where a rear dump would be more useful than a front There must be a lot of time getting trucks unstuck
You finally got a front load mixer on the job..circle completed👍
Well at least Bill has seen one.
Excellent job muddyfeet
Thanks man!
That guy wrangling the chute looks like M.C. Hammer. “Can’t touch dis!”
Them front dump trucks are nice for doing garage floors and the inside of buildings.
Akron, Ohio has both types of trucks for concrete. It all depends on who the contractor can get the cheapest price for the mix on their job.
my dad help.revolution the design on those front discharge trucks back in 1989. the company he worked for imvented the front discharge truck. so after being one of the top drivers in indiana, they took.him to the factory to give his advice to make the trucks better, hince the saftey cage on top, i actually did a video on it
That’s a great idea
We have one company up here and that's all they have. It's great sometimes, but other times I would rather back them in myself. There's also those drivers who don't pay attention or are on the phone texting while trying to fill the hopper and it results in a mess. Hope to see you all at Con-Expo in Vegas mid March.
Happy new year to you all
Cheers from Nova Scotia
Happy New Years to y’all !
Those are in my area and I prefer them. A good driver makes you look like a hero. Carry on.
I agree
Happy New Year to everyone reading in the comments!
I am in Cincinnati OH and most of the trucks are front discharged. There are still rear discharge as well but not a lot of them.
I'm from northern Indiana, the truck's were invented just a few mile's from me by Jim Irving which they later become Advance mixer's. That's all we have up here, usually 100 yd minimum to get a pump, we bobcat it or buggy it. Pain in the butt. Wished we could use pump's more often. the Cadillac of front end mixer's are the osh-kosh.
I’ve seen a lot of them on videos. Hopefully will start seeing more of them
That is the only type truck we have in Michigan! Will be easier on your hopper than the rookie reversing in your conventional trucks... Ha Ha (Merry Christmas, Happy New Year)
Thanks for watching
In Northern Indiana we stopped using the old fashioned rear concrete trucks in 1968.
That's the only type of concrete truck in mass Maine nh upstate NY and Rhode Island
Wondered why the front dumps were not seen in your area. We in WI have about 100% front dumps, since prolly 20-25 years ago. Seems much safer for you guys working around those front dumps. They can see you and don't have to rely on someone backing up to your trough.
rear is cheaper because they use off the shelf cab and chassis
They are the best for pouring floors.
Assumptions is the mother of all f ups lol happy Christmas and New year all from the upm
Good to hear from you
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping been working running 2 business's from home and caring for me disabled mum.
I like them you don't have to worry about them hitting pump
You would hope so
The company I work for had all rears until about 1990 and hasn’t gone back since. The fronts are more time efficient, all the action is right up front. No need for a guy holding your chute and telling you where to go. If I’m doing side walks, I pull up flip my 2 flips from the cab, maybe add a chute and then I’m the guy controlling the job, everything is visibility in my rear view camera so I set the pace of the job and I have 100% visibility of all the moving parts of the operation as I back away from the workers. The owner is a 40 year mixer driver, had the rears noticed a visible increase in production with the fronts.
People run rears becuase they are way cheaper, it’s a regular straight job truck that you bolt a drum on to, where the fronts are 300k 1 use set ups. You ain’t pulling a drum off a front and selling it to a roll off dumpster guy like you could with the rears. That’s that down side of the fronts.
Front Discharge Concrete Pumps is the most safety and easy to work at the concrete pumps is using a lot right here an florida georgia and the Carolinas we have an Orlando Masmeyers concrete is work right now around the new Universal Studios unique inside Concrete Plant
I've never seen a front discharge truck either around here its only been rear discharge mixer trucks up to 13 cubic yard tandem tandem with rear booster.
First time for us
We have them in Mississippi.
I used front loaders at my house pour due to soft soils. They have 6 wheel drive with fat tires A rear loader almost got stuck on the first load, the front drove around no problem. Northern South Carolina
Amazing the difference that makes
Yeah I'm from Ohio and SRM bought out the company I used to work for and I'm 90% sure that blue and white paint combo is one of our old mixers from Ohio, that's pretty cool seeing it got shipped all the way down to yall lol
Pretty cool!
Your right SRM
In central pa most of the concrete companies are all front load except for the conveyor trucks
This is the first for our area. I hope they catch on
Thanks Bill. I always think the front discharge trucks look like Ant Eaters. LOL
Me too!
i get my oshkosh stuck all the time. cell towers up the side of a mountain with a d-6 dozer pulling you up the hill is fun to
but all our contractors fight over the front dumps
I am from Wisconsin and those type of trucks are all we see up here
I think we could use more of them
The guy on that massive hose is getting a work-out, must be a 5 inch hose? In Australia we use 3 or 3.5 inch hoses on the end of the booms much easier to push around and less splashing of the mud.
It’s a 4.5 “ hose. I think his over working is self induced
Where does all the water go when a heavy rain occurs on all that concrete?
I drove front discharge truck for 14 year in Wisconsin
Common for east coast. Rarely used in the southwest.
Michigan that's all we have 11 yard 6 axle oshkosh is what I drive
All we have in New England
That is a heckuva pool deck. At one truck at a time those poor guys will be there all day and half the night finishing all the concrete.
It took some time
I've worked with them before. They still make their mess and brake the hopper covers
Not surprising
98% of mixer that pull up to my pump are front loaders
That’s all I’ve ever had pulled up to my pump
SRM has brought some in. I see them every now and then on the road.
Dang…. I wanted to drive a stake in the ground next to that first driver to make sure he was moving😂🤣😂🤣
Lol
Are these buildings,,houses r hotels , wow they are big good job thanks BigAl California praise Jesus Christ grace grace grace amen 🙏
Apartment complex
I hate to amit to this but, i have worked with both front and rear discharge and remember when I seen my first front discharge many years ago.
How’s it been going?
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping going good trying not to put on to much weight lol.
Been plenty of snow so far this winter season and have a bit over 2 1/2 mounts left to go. Not abnormal just a snowy year this year.
So have you found a truck to replace the one you are selling.
No I do not need a pump truck maybe 30 years ago would of been nice lol.
They look funny to me
its the future bill the front loaders are more convenient a good driver doesnt have to get out exept to wash out
Sounds like a good concept
Ooh, a front discharge mixer.... we don't have them at all on this side of the pond..... 🤔🤷♂️
That bloke in the black dress was the concreters version of Darth Vader, doing exactly opposite what you expected 🤣🤣🤦♂️
Are you going to retake your wheelbarrow license, or will all the health and safety stuff put you off ??? 🤔
that is all we have up here in new jersey i drive one every day they are way better then a rear load truck and they are 6 wheel drive
They look interesting
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping oshkosh trucks are the way to go though there the best made i been in mud over the axle and the truck still keeps going
easy $$$$
Looks like mud though..(real dirt mud lol)
They have quite a few of those trucks around. SRM has a yard over off 635 & Scyene with quite a few of those trucks over there.
What happened to the guy that ran the pump trailer? Is the other guy that ran the smaller boom truck still with you, and lastly are you and Bill partners in the business? Thanks
Foster us off to greener pastures. Everyone else is still here
I don't generally comment much anymore as my body is shutting down from my injury that has left me a crip. I hate being like this but enough whining about me. I have thought about how powerful our dmv is and how they could really be helpful if they gave companies a little more leeway on the road making it a offense to crowd those trucks on the road when traveling freeways. Time is of the essence when delivering mud to the outlying areas they have to travel as mud just doesn't do well if held in a truck too long. talking to the choir there hu... I watched those crashes of "22" and seen trucks spill and go over cause of being to tight on those corners that required the driver to go a certain speed to keep up with traffic yet in a tight corner the mud will sag the rig and then corner "NO more" so over it has to go. Just a thought from this old school mechanic of over forty years continuous time fixing stuff on this type of equipment........ going to go a bit much on my comment here....
As a kid of just short of a teenager and full of rebellion, I got all my "gang" together and we decided since the people putting in a pool had to leave for a while and get more cash ready to finish up the walkways around this area. The pool was poured and filling up with rain water.... perfect for us kids to play in yet we were told to just stay the H E double hockey sticks away. We had the river to swim in and if we drowned so much the better. Okay challenge accepted! We all stole every kind of fish, mostly goldfish and other kinds of fish that did not need running water to stay alive.. winter cold was over and we all had goldfish in our bedrooms back in the fifties. I would go to a store that had fish in their bowls and take some saran wrap, and capture as many as possible for our project "Fill that Pool"!! We kinda over did ourselves an it was just brimming with feeder fish for the bigger fish. So from the months that went by and no one showing up to finish this project, we kinda lost interest in our screw you back project. Now about four or more months have gone by and we check out our project. We had a bunch of cornmeal and such to give to them if any were still alive. Just for a moment imagine the surprise on our faces! That huge pool, a good fifteen by twenty something was just full of huge goldfish. They ate the croppi and other fish we had donated to them and they had bitten off of the survivors tails and backs like pyrona or some other kind of fish that would eat anything. We tossed in our sacrifices to them an the water just boiled up! They were hungry as all get out! Not one of us was brave enough to dive into that water with all the insults we tossed at each other.. so we grabbed one little member to give him the scare of his total life and he turned into a cougar fighting for everything he was worth and blacking my eyes as well as others and leaving deep scratches on us which almost made us want to toss him in for real. The owners did come back and were in shock. They poison ☠ ☠ off all of them and gathered us kids up who we all deigned any wrongdoing!! Those dead fish smelled so awful and we still had to clean the pool. I can say that some of those goldfish were over two foot long and probably weighed a good five or more pounds. We filled a log of burlap bags up and had to toss them into a dump truck which meant to we empty the bag and reuse it. I thought about my part of this and vowed to never mess with mother nature again. Of course those promises always fail but that is for another comment on someones channel.
Thanks for your comments
what you could have done is put hose on the end of the boom and pumped it out to where it needed to be and not used wheelbarrows
I thought that was addressed in the video of why that didn’t happen
@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping It was Bill
why do people sit or stand on the forms.
🤷♂️
Funny that’s the only mixer I’ve ever worked with, rear discharge seems like wasted manpower to me. These were originally designed waaaay back years ago, in the town I grew up in.
That’s interesting! We have only seen rear discharge ones until now
The concrete look like turd brown.
I guess?
we got them stupid fronts here in charleston SC
My son is in law school in Charleston! I’ll there this summer
They're all wheel drive so they can get around all up better than you think and they can dump in that pump easy no problems there seeing it occur millions of times
Not sure why they haven’t brought more in here