skyking1
Senior Member
^ guys are overweight all the time. I follow them through the scales now and then at Dickson.
Vac truck dump out with all the water and yadda yadda.$600 per load? Is that trash or just dirt? $75 per load here for dirt, concrete, etc. No trash.
@AzIron That is a good lookin load, you must be a certified lowbed driver!
This is what happens when no one wants to drive 2 and a half hrs back to get iron you figure out how to make it work and man was there a lot more weight than you think on there
Let's not get carried away there maybe one of these days I will quit being cheap and buy a 16 tire that's real lowboyin@AzIron That is a good lookin load, you must be a certified lowbed driver!
My figure is to be in the vac bizz to compete with badger you need about 1 mil in cash with really good credit or have 5 million laying around that you want to burn if your not going the credit route it's a dam serious line of work to be in and it is not a fun job in July when it's 115 degrees and 60 to 70 percent humidity and did I mention tyvek sucksJust used a vac truck the other day; it was a 1400 minimum up to 4 hours; 275 an hour after. Forget how much to dump but he dumped on site.
Other guy was 8 hour minimum 400 an hour.
Both guys have multiple trucks and work in industrial cleaning and maintenance. The guy I used had 3 or 4 trucks with 3 more on order. All purchased new and he has his own mechanic who was onsite, so I assume they just patched this truck back up. Owner himself was running it was well.
Everything AZiron said about what it required to really be in the biz resonantes with what I gleaned talking to the owner onsite. Very big investment.
I wondered about that when you first got that truck. I like my trailer being right behind the cab, I'm not in it long enough to care how it rides, I just need to make it around a corner.Let's not get carried away there maybe one of these days I will quit being cheap and buy a 16 tire that's real lowboyin
I could definitely use a shorter truck some days if the wheel base was 2 feet shorter it would spoil me
We have had that truck since I was in Jr high that's the rig I learned to lowboy in back in dads hay day he had a flip tail and a 35 ton detach and to many end dumps anyway that truck replaced the old 900 b with a 195 inch wheel base with a 5 and a 4 in it that thing was a boat anchor driving down the road gobs of power but 65 was all you wantedI wondered about that when you first got that truck. I like my trailer being right behind the cab, I'm not in it long enough to care how it rides, I just need to make it around a corner.
The w900's don't turn real great anyways, and the wheelbase doesn't help.
Good to see you staying busy. There is a guy here in town now with a hydrovac, but he's got a underground boring business that they travel all over the country with. I think they also primarily got it for their own use.
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This is some of the most fun and aggrevating digging you can do in one holeView attachment 302205View attachment 302206
The bottom of the pier cap is 8 foot below grade so to make it safe to get rebar tied and clean the gravel off the pier you have to bench it out and they will form up the footing around the pier cap
Obviously the pier was drilled and poured then topped off with pea gravel before we dug the footing so then we can dig out the footing and over ex the bench and not bend any rebar in the process
The reason we use gravel is that it is easier to shovelout of the rebar than dirt the pier cap is about 8 inches wider than the pier so a 1 foot bucket is the smallest bucket to use and is ridiculously slow to use around the rebar
Yea running multiple recivers is really the way to speed up your day you should run a rod with 4 recievers you really need to pay attention thenUghh. I hate digging around pier caps.
Good looking work. Like the dual receivers on the grade rod. One for the cap and one for the bench?