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Post by LEAD DOG on Mar 30, 2008 18:15:52 GMT -5
IT USE TO BE THE POLICY WHERE I WORK THAT DRIVERS CHIP OUT THEIR OWN MIXER. ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO OSHA PUT THE KABOSH ON THAT DEAL  . NOW WE HAVE A SPECIAL CONFINED SPACE CREW TO DO IT AND I WAS ON IT  . CHIPPING OUT 320 MIXERS OVER THE WINTER SUCKED! IT KEPT US BUSY OVER THE WINTERS (40hrs./wk.), BUT NOW THAT I'M TIPPING 50yrs. old, CHIPPING GOT OLD  . WHEN I FOUND OUT HOW MUCH I WAS GETTING ON UNEMPLOYMENT I WAS AMAZED  ! WITH GAS AT $3.50/gal. I'M BETTER OFF SITTING AT HOME MAKING LIFE MISERABLE FOR MY KIDS ;D! IT'S GRRRREAT  ! I WISHED I DID THIS YEARS AGO ! |
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Post by dwfnga on Apr 5, 2008 8:32:42 GMT -5
Boy we got it easy here every 4 months we have a crew come in and clean our drums. It's amazing they can 12 mixers in a night. Saves us a lot of bother, I used to work at a company where you had to chip your own drum out.
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Post by LEAD DOG on Apr 5, 2008 9:09:53 GMT -5
Boy we got it easy here every 4 months we have a crew come in and clean our drums. It's amazing they can 12 mixers in a night. Saves us a lot of bother, I used to work at a company where you had to chip your own drum out. AW MAN ! THAT'S A SWEET DEAL ! |
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Post by BillyCement on Apr 5, 2008 13:25:43 GMT -5
Until last year we had to get in our own barrels and jackhammer out whatever was in there. I tried to go in once a year just to stay ahead of it. Now the new owners hire an outside crew to do the job. During the winter we used to take the trucks completely apart and sand blast each part including the running boards, pedestals and barrel. We also had to steam clean the chassis. That was the worst job. Now they send the trucks out to be painted. Thank you!!
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Post by cfconcrete on Apr 5, 2008 16:15:00 GMT -5
We can't go in our barrels anymore, there's an outside crew that does the job.
Our new Oshkosh mixers are painted white, and we do the steam cleaning bit all the time to them. Those of us lucky to have some hand me down 1990 era Advance mixers, well the steam cleaning bit would probably do them in. Plus the new mixers have all sorts of cracks where the rings are coming apart, should make for a funny scene when the jackhammer guy inside it splits the barrel wide open like a walnut......
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Post by gant on Apr 5, 2008 22:39:07 GMT -5
my company uses a group of mexicans from texas lol.. they are contracted to do all of our trucks and different trucks all over the country.. they were in a crew cab 1 ton ford with a compressor behind it lol.. they did 15 trucks in a night
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Post by LEAD DOG on Apr 6, 2008 0:39:30 GMT -5
my company uses a group of mexicans from texas lol.. they are contracted to do all of our trucks and different trucks all over the country.. they were in a crew cab 1 ton ford with a compressor behind it lol.. they did 15 trucks in a night |
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Post by mixedupdiesel on Apr 6, 2008 8:32:02 GMT -5
"my company uses a group of mexicans from texas lol.. they are contracted to do all of our trucks and different trucks all over the country.. they were in a crew cab 1 ton ford with a compressor behind it lol.. they did 15 trucks in a night"
yeah, the compressor was a tow behind type, but was mounted in a trailer, right?
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Post by db2179 on Apr 6, 2008 20:08:38 GMT -5
Our company bought a hydro blaster 2000 witch is a machine with a computerized arm that gos in the barrel and presure washs it with 20,000 psi washer this thing is quite cool.
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Post by LEAD DOG on Apr 6, 2008 20:56:07 GMT -5
AW NO WAY ! WE NEED ONE OF THOSE ZIPPO 2000 HYDRO DRUM CLEANER OUTTER THINGS;)!!
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Post by gant on Apr 6, 2008 20:58:55 GMT -5
the mexicans are pretty good at knocking the paint off.. thats for sure...and the compressor came trailer mounted from the factory.. and i believe the truck had a camper shell on it as well
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Post by BillyCement on Apr 7, 2008 16:27:33 GMT -5
AW NO WAY ! WE NEED ONE OF THOSE ZIPPO 2000 HYDRO DRUM CLEANER OUTTER THINGS;)!!
The problem with the Zippo 2000 is keeping your flux capacitor well fueled. |
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Post by LEAD DOG on Apr 7, 2008 19:39:45 GMT -5
GOSH....DOES THAT HURT  ?
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Post by concretejoe on Apr 7, 2008 21:47:45 GMT -5
AW NO WAY ! WE NEED ONE OF THOSE ZIPPO 2000 HYDRO DRUM CLEANER OUTTER THINGS;)!!
The problem with the Zippo 2000 is keeping your flux capacitor well fueled.It uses regular lighter fluid doesn't it? |
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Post by Mort on Apr 11, 2008 19:06:44 GMT -5
LOL Cleaner Outer things!
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Post by BillyCement on Apr 12, 2008 12:38:56 GMT -5
The problem with the Zippo 2000 is keeping your flux capacitor well fueled.It uses regular lighter fluid doesn't it? |
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Jun 8, 2008 18:09:16 GMT -5
IT USE TO BE THE POLICY WHERE I WORK THAT DRIVERS CHIP OUT THEIR OWN MIXER. ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO OSHA PUT THE KABOSH ON THAT DEAL . NOW WE HAVE A SPECIAL CONFINED SPACE CREW TO DO IT AND I WAS ON IT . CHIPPING OUT 320 MIXERS OVER THE WINTER SUCKED! IT KEPT US BUSY OVER THE WINTERS (40hrs./wk.), BUT NOW THAT I'M TIPPING 50yrs. old, CHIPPING GOT OLD . WHEN I FOUND OUT HOW MUCH I WAS GETTING ON UNEMPLOYMENT I WAS AMAZED ! WITH GAS AT $3.50/gal. I'M BETTER OFF SITTING AT HOME MAKING LIFE MISERABLE FOR MY KIDS ;D! IT'S GRRRREAT ! I WISHED I DID THIS YEARS AGO ! ouch! thank god we have our own crew that chips ours out, but its a pain in the ass to get them to come out. We only see them when we complain about severe buildup. |
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Post by gant on Jun 8, 2008 19:36:15 GMT -5
we had a guy get 4 yards chipped out of his truck..but it wasnt his fault.. he went on vacation and while he was out one of the other drivers trucks went to the dealer to get worked on.. well him and the driver on vacation didnt get along too well at all.. and they put him in the truck and when my buddy came back from vacation they went to load him they got about 7 yards on him and it started spilling out the back..
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Post by Tom on Jun 11, 2008 14:25:05 GMT -5
I chipped mine out a couple of weeks ago took me the best part of 4 hours with a jack hammer my poor old arms were falling off by the end. Wish we had some Mexicans. lol
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. NOW WE HAVE A SPECIAL CONFINED SPACE CREW TO DO IT AND I WAS ON IT 
. CHIPPING OUT 320 MIXERS OVER THE WINTER SUCKED! IT KEPT US BUSY OVER THE WINTERS (40hrs./wk.), BUT NOW THAT I'M TIPPING 50yrs. old, CHIPPING GOT OLD 
. WHEN I FOUND OUT HOW MUCH I WAS GETTING ON UNEMPLOYMENT I WAS AMAZED 
! WITH GAS AT $3.50/gal. I'M BETTER OFF SITTING AT HOME MAKING LIFE MISERABLE FOR MY KIDS ;D! IT'S GRRRREAT 
! I WISHED I DID THIS YEARS AGO 
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