Stuck while delivering topsoil
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Robert_in_NY
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Did you try to pull it with the TN? I have pushed 10 wheelers up hill before with my TN when they couldn't get enough traction. Of course they were already empty but the TN still didn't struggle to push them up the hill. You might not have done it but it would have been fun to try :0
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With soil like that we'll call you Jack In The beanstalk when the crop gets flourishing!! Send some pics of the products produced next year...
ScottAR
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Pretty common for the asphalt/gravel haulers around here. He would gross out at 80,000 lbs. in AR. The asphalt companies pay more per hour for the bigger trucks so everyone that hauls asphalt has a "quad." 80k is the limit without special permits in AR. The five and six axle trucks I see on ebay are not here. Apparently, some states just use the federal limit at 102,000 if I remember.
Somewhat interesting, the construction company fleets here are nearly all tri axles. I guess they're more manuverable? These rigs would haul from a jobsite and bring back fill.
Somewhat interesting, the construction company fleets here are nearly all tri axles. I guess they're more manuverable? These rigs would haul from a jobsite and bring back fill.
escavader
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SOUNDED LIKE FUN!!I know the feeling of driving these monsters. I have been working in sawmills and planing mills ,for 23 years now.They have them big cats with buckets,or log forks,and grapples,they are a blast[especially for a tractor lover]I currently get to use[play]with the very large JCB 4 wheel drive forklifts at our mill,on occasion when im not grading lumber..There isnt to many brands i havent tried,my favorite was an old TAYLOR forklift with a straight 6 inline ford [gas] and standard tranny.The thing was built heavy like a tank,and would lift a unbelievable amount of weight,even more than the 920 cat we had.It was in the salvage yard when i started at this place.I tinkered it up to like new again,because our planing mill needed its own lift.My crew use to strut aroung proud as a peacock on that thing,especially if the cat or the trojan loader couldnt lift something and we had to save the day!I guess about 6 months after i left the company ,they ruined it to lack of maintanance its now in the scrap yard
THANKS FOR THE GREAT PICS
ALAN
THANKS FOR THE GREAT PICS
ALAN
Nat
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I'm sorta like Eddie on that one. Around here a normal tri-axle truck has a 14 yard bed, that is struck level with the top of the 2x10 oak extender boards. I went to the local redi-mix plant to buy sand one time and told them I wanted 5 yards of sand. They used a John Deere wheel loader and got 1 bucket full of sand and then parked. When he came over to see if I wanted anything else, i said the other 3 yards of sand. GHe said that is what they sell for 5yards. I took my tape measure and had him help me measure the bed inside, easy cause we could see the floor all the wauy around the sand. We went inside and used his calculater and multiplied it up and the 6 yd bed would only hold 5.5 yards if level full. I told him I wanted 5yards of sand as that is what the job measured and if he didn't want to sell me5 yards I was going to dump that 2-3 yards off on his front porch. It made him mad but there wasn't much he could do as he also admitted that there wasn't 5 yards on there. After hemming and hawwing around he finnally loaded the full 5yards on there. I wonder how many times he had sold that little amount of sand as 5 yards?
I realize on your garden it isn't critical that you have an exact amount so it is a moot point, just an example of something we all need to be aware of when buying a certian amount of anything. Later, Nat
I realize on your garden it isn't critical that you have an exact amount so it is a moot point, just an example of something we all need to be aware of when buying a certian amount of anything. Later, Nat
EddieWalker
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Nat,
That's sort of what I was wondering. 19 yards in a dump truck sure is more than I've ever come across, but I'm not saying it's not done, just that I've never heard of it.
I bought sand from a local nursery one time, and thought the loader bucket was a little small. Not quite a yard, but thats what you got for the price of a yard there. It didn't come close to filling the back of my pickup truck.
Than for another job, I went to a gravel and rock business and bought sand from them, and it filled my bed up allot more than the nursery did.
Just curious,
Eddie
That's sort of what I was wondering. 19 yards in a dump truck sure is more than I've ever come across, but I'm not saying it's not done, just that I've never heard of it.
I bought sand from a local nursery one time, and thought the loader bucket was a little small. Not quite a yard, but thats what you got for the price of a yard there. It didn't come close to filling the back of my pickup truck.
Than for another job, I went to a gravel and rock business and bought sand from them, and it filled my bed up allot more than the nursery did.
Just curious,
Eddie
