Growing into Your Equipment

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OrangeCrest

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A few more toys added...

Only can move up from this point, LOL!!

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OrangeCrest

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degraffreed

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OrangeCrest , could you give me info on how to solict commerical strip malls underconstruction. Do I submit proposal to the builders or to the property management? I see a larger volume of these going up around me and I would like to find out how to get these jobs. I am currently doing a large volume of housewashing now.

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OrangeCrest

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Originally posted by degraffreed
OrangeCrest , could you give me info on how to solict commerical strip malls underconstruction. Do I submit proposal to the builders or to the property management? I see a larger volume of these going up around me and I would like to find out how to get these jobs. I am currently doing a large volume of housewashing now.

Degraffreed

It is a F-250, and as for commercial strip malls under construction, as far as I know you would contact the Purchasing Department for the builder doing the construction and after it is built contact the property management group. You may ask the super who is the management company, if it is available to get a jump on it before anyone else who hasn't thought of it.

Someone specializing in the strip mall area would probably be a better one to ask.
 
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OrangeCrest

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Originally posted by Larry L.
Found On Road Dead can only go up :D,looks good

Ha Ha Ha!! Thanks Larry... Already had to change out the Odometer and I swear I have an electrical short somewhere, AM stations Snap Crackle and POPS!!

Already had a converter fry and catch fire when it was plugged into the cigarette lighter.

Good thing I was in the truck when it happened. It would have sucked to be washing down a house and look back and see my truck fully evolved in a giant fireball...
 

Scott Stone

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It looks like you might be over taxing the trailer with two 325 gallon tanks on it. Watch your springs. They will snap over a bump if you go somewhere fully loaded with water. Also mounting them front to back like that will seriously screw up the geometry of the brakes, because of how the weight will be positioned.
I put my tanks side by side, but I also had my trailer built to maximum legal width to do it. I also have 10,000 lb axles underneath it to support the weight. If you run with the tanks full, unless you have the bigger axles, you will be illegal. My truck and trailer combo wieghs 14,500 fully loaded. You will be at least 1700 lbs more with more water.

Scott Stone
 
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OrangeCrest

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Now that's a lot of weight. I try not to haul water. I dump the unused water and if I recover, that will be the only water weight I will haul.

I didn't want to place them side by side, because they would have to be counter balanced some how; wouldn't want a full tank, 2,400 lbs, on one side of the trailer.

It is mainly for looks. I am trying to look larger than I really am, size wise.

The front tank is for recovery, the back tank is the supply tank.

Thanks for the info, I am concerned and I am watching the weight to make sure I don't over load it.

The Plastic tanks give it the appearance that it is heavier than it really is... Justifies the size of the truck with the wife, LOL!!
 

oneness

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Must be a Ford thing...I had my entire dashboard catch fire years ago...It was at night on a LONG LONG bridge on I-10 in the middle of a Louisiana swamp...I got it out and luckily, it was still running. No fun! I really didn't want to be stranded in a swamp at night.
 
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OrangeCrest

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How did you put it out? Use your Washer?

I had a flat on the trailer that started smoking. Pretty cool to be able to put it out before it had a chance to get involved.

I wouldn't want to get stuck out middle of a swap either. Might meet up with the Swap Thing or the creature from the black lagoon.
 

MR ALAN

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Originally posted by OrangeCrest
It is mainly for looks. I am trying to look larger than I really am, size wise.]


Then why not add some bumper numbers to your truck, and one of those "How am I driving stickers" That will make you look huge and your phone will never stop ringing.


Originally posted by OrangeCrest
The Plastic tanks give it the appearance that it is heavier than it really is... Justifies the size of the truck with the wife, LOL!!

Now why would you have to justify such a thing? Despite what Larry will say, just tell her "Real men drive real trucks" What engine do you have in there?
If that alone will not work, then buy her a new car so she will be quiet. Ever since my wife got the new Expedition, she has nothing to say.
 

Larry L.

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:) :d ...

I've been dragging 680 gallons with powerwasher, one or two brushes thats hardly ever used,tool box,some buckets,ect. on a trailer like that for years and years.It may lay down and die tomorrow but its been though mud holes,pot holes and bumpy gravel roads with no problem.I've smoked a few tires in those years,matter fact smoked three this year,10 ply trailer tires.
I seen another powerwash last week smoke one of his tires,helped him change it "loaned him my spare".Its aways the back tires on the trailer I smoke,the front ones doesn't taste to good or are noticed first if going flat.

Not telling you your trailer is safe,I pull mine with a chevy,some trailers cann't stand a ford pulling them and they'll break down.
 

Aplus

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How do you smoke your tires? Do you cut them up in pieces before rolling them up? How do you keep them lit?


............:)
 
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OrangeCrest

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Originally posted by MR ALAN


Then why not add some bumper numbers to your truck, and one of those "How am I driving stickers" That will make you look huge and your phone will never stop ringing.




Now why would you have to justify such a thing? Despite what Larry will say, just tell her "Real men drive real trucks" What engine do you have in there?
If that alone will not work, then buy her a new car so she will be quiet. Ever since my wife got the new Expedition, she has nothing to say. [/B]

Heck! I can't even have permanent signs added to my truck because the Homeowners Assc doesn't allow commercial vehicles. I have to remove the signs nightly, or sure enough I'll get a violation in the mail a couple of days later.

As for the wife... She's Japanese... You justify everyting... That's right, everyting!
 
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Scott Stone

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Originally posted by Larry L.
:) :d ...

I've been dragging 680 gallons with powerwasher, one or two brushes thats hardly ever used,tool box,some buckets,ect. on a trailer like that for years and years.It may lay down and die tomorrow but its been though mud holes,pot holes and bumpy gravel roads with no problem.I've smoked a few tires in those years,matter fact smoked three this year,10 ply trailer tires.
I seen another powerwash last week smoke one of his tires,helped him change it "loaned him my spare".Its aways the back tires on the trailer I smoke,the front ones doesn't taste to good or are noticed first if going flat.

Not telling you your trailer is safe,I pull mine with a chevy,some trailers cann't stand a ford pulling them and they'll break down.

It also could be circumstances. Try pulling that trailer with a full load of water when the air temperature is 108 and the surface temp is about 175 to 200. It will cook about anything.

Of course, it could be that the trailer knows the truck looks so good, it wants more people to see it as they pass by...

:D


Scott Stone
 

oneness

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If your HOA won't allow signs on the truck, what do you do with the trailer at night? Garage?

Man I love living away from town...I have more neighbors than I'd care for, but no one is going to hassle me for working on the truck in the yard, or for the car and truck that don't run, or the old RV, or the 500 gallon water tank that's been sitting in the front yard for over a year (until this weekend...wife talked me into pushing it into the backyard... :) ) I can leave my rig parked in front of the house, and the only problem I have is all the dust from the dirt road and the morons who think it is smart to drive 60 down a limerock road...And as Larry pointed out in a different thread, I can pee in the yard if I want to.
 
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OrangeCrest

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Originally posted by oneness
If your HOA won't allow signs on the truck, what do you do with the trailer at night? Garage?

Man I love living away from town...I have more neighbors than I'd care for, but no one is going to hassle me for working on the truck in the yard, or for the car and truck that don't run, or the old RV, or the 500 gallon water tank that's been sitting in the front yard for over a year (until this weekend...wife talked me into pushing it into the backyard... :) ) I can leave my rig parked in front of the house, and the only problem I have is all the dust from the dirt road and the morons who think it is smart to drive 60 down a limerock road...And as Larry pointed out in a different thread, I can pee in the yard if I want to.

The rig is secured inside the garage (Garage doors are alarmed, as well as the house). You leave anything out of site for any length of time in Riverside, it will be gone in no time.

I never let it out of my site, unless it is at Lowes where I can park it in the loading zone.

Sad... But a fact of life...
 

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