Outrigger design and configuration is a decisive point in the practicality and also the economic efficiency of a truck mounted concrete pump. First of all though, the outriggers are the prime factor in the safe operation of a truck pump.

Where a typical truck crane makes use of counterweights to partially balance itself, a truck concrete pump "has to stand on its own feet" all day and every day. Intelligent engineering and the maximum use of high-strength, low-weight materials are therefore the order of the day.

Intelligent outrigger conceptions are perfectly reflected by the SCHWING developed X and Super-X (SX) outrigger systems. Both of these configurations get the working machine and the boom right into the front line so as to develop maximum on-site effectiveness. Where conventional swing-out and swing-telescope outriggers meet their limits on restricted sites, the SCHWING systems power-out directly in-line or even in-arc (with the SX). Trees, walls, stacks of building materials are not a problem anymore.

SCHWING pumps arrive on site, set up and pump. That's it!