US Sending World’s Biggest Concrete Pump to Japan

The world’s largest concrete pump—a 190,000-pound machine with a 230-foot boom called the “Putzmeister 70Z”—is being sent to Japan to help the troubled Fukushima reactors, reports the Augusta Chronicle . “There are only three of these pumps in the world, of which two are suited for this work,…

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US Sending World’s Biggest Concrete Pump to Japan

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