Milwaukee Tool unveiled what it claims to be the first battery-powered, mobile submersible pump for the construction industry at this year’s World of Concrete.
The MX Fuel 1 HP 2” Submersible Pump comes in the form of a backpack to make it easy to move from spot to spot on a jobsite to pump water, eliminating the need to haul around a generator and the tripping hazard of electrical cords. It can also go easily into confined spaces like manholes without releasing fumes that can endanger workers, says Brandon Fredericks, Milwaukee Tool product marketing manager.
(To watch the pump in action, check out the video at the end of this story.)
The backpack console for the 1-horsepower, 2-inch pump weighs about 28 pounds including the 6-amp-hour lithium-ion battery.
The 1-horsepower, 2-inch pump, left, and backpack console with battery at World of Concrete 2024.Equipment World
“Today, they're having to drag a generator out to every single one of those footings,” Fredericks says. “Whereas for us, you can just pick up the backpack, grab the pump and walk it from one to the other.”
In high mode, the pump can run for 20 minutes and pump a total of 2,000 gallons. On low mode, it can run up to 2 hours and pump 5,000 gallons. “There's a ton of pumping that happens on jobsites where you don't need the full output,” Fredericks says.
