A man in a concrete-flecked grey hoodie with the hood up sits side-on in the foreground while a yellow and blue boom pump truck stands on the road behind him. — Picture: @bbamba01

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Concrete Pumping 101 Reduced To One Lesson As Bloke Reclines In Hoodie And Lets The Boom Take Every Load Without Lifting A Finger

11 November 2026, 7:00 pmOn The Boom

ROADSIDE SITE — Lesson one of concrete pumping, according to bbamba01, is to lean back in a flecked grey hoodie with the hood up and let somebody else's boom do the reaching. Behind him, a yellow boom is stretched out over the footpath at full length, and he hasn't so much as…

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Concrete Pumping 101 Reduced To One Lesson As Bloke Reclines In Hoodie And Lets The Boom Take Every Load Without Lifting A Finger

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