Pumping equipment-Placing booms
Placing booms Placing booms support a 5-in.-diameter pipeline which re-ceives the discharge from a concrete pump and places it inthe forms. Booms have three or four articulating sections.The booms are mounted on a turret that rotates to enable the discharge of the pipeline to be located anywhere within a cir-cle. One type of boom telescopes 17 ft. Most booms are per-manently mounted to the trucks on which they are transported, along with the concrete pump. Some booms are designed to be…