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    Making a monster foamer??

    Has anyone ever made a high yield foamer for applying soap. Something capable of covering a truck in a few seconds. Thought of using a low pressure 20 gpm 1"water pump and a 5cfm air compressor. By intraining air at the outlet side of the nossel at close to 90 deg. Any thoughts???[help][help]...
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    Long cold winter....

    Well winter in these parts seems to have come and gone. Shame thou not ready for another summer of washing yet. Has anyone else in the northern half expanded into the snow plowing industry??? Seems around here the new companies are completely flooding the market. Seems I have seen 4 or 5 ads...
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    Has anone ever cleaned a silo?? Not Grain!!

    Got a call today about a 12' wide by 40' high silo which needs to be cleaned inside and out. It has a complete roof with two access holes one at the bottom and one the top. There are three silos in total. The silos are not for grain but rather for plastic pellets for injection mould systems...
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    Mini Wash Truck Set Up

    Have a 800gal poly tank mounted to a 7"8" x 12' steel flat deck. Has the proper hoops and the deck is checker plate. With the pump and drive motor mounted to the deck. The pump is a 5-5.5 GPM general pump @ 2800-3200PSI and driven by a 10HP single cyl. diesel engine. All the lights are...
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    2200 GAl WASH TRUCK

    Finally after a year of trying I got the picture to load. At the time of the picture my Son was playing with the fire hose. At this time the truck has a 20GPM wash system driven by a 3 cylindar diesel engine and hot water unit mounted to the roof of the tank. All components of the truck were put...
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    White Christmas!!!!

    Ok so up here in the north things are starting to slow down. I'm soooo glad, at the end of the season we were all looking forward to snow biz. This and a break from washing six days a week. So here is my thoughts. Has anyone tried to make snow with thier washers? Seen some web sites out there...
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    Winter Months

    Ok today the weather is almost 80.0 degees F, we all no this wont last forever in the northern areas. So what do you do during the winter months??? Keep on washing or wash with a limited schedule (weather related) Or do you have a winter gig??? After my first winter I decided to limit the...
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    Go Diesel

    Has anyone had issuses with Vanguard engines. Just blown another connecting rod last week. Only had 2000hrs with regular oil filter changes. Swaped out the 18hp vanguard with a 10hp single cylinder diesel, had to make minor changes to the set up. Mounted the diesel to a general TS2021 belt...
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    Stop The Slosh!!!!

    Every one with a tank knows this sinario. Pull up to the light with only half a load of water, the truck stops, then moves forward then back, over and over untill the light turns green. Polly tanks are great but there baffling system needs improvement. Normally tanks are full or totally...
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    Hot Water Unit @11-13gpm Reqd

    Does any manufacturer make horizontal hot water units for 11-13gpm? Any one try to build one themselves?
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