Ty is that a 2500 pickup truck?Do you have any pictures?I want to build a cold water house wash skid to put in the back of a F-250.
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Rance
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Amen to that!
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samstewart1979
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Maybe I'm stuck in my little box in my thinking, but why would you put the unit in the back of a pickup truck? It is much less expensive to put it in an enclosed trailer. That way, it can be hauled by several different vehicles, it can be dropped at a job site and not tie up a truck, the truck can be used for several different things, plus if your truck is wrecked or in the shop your business doesn't shut down. I'm pretty new at this, so let me know if I'm missing something.
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
We have both! Flatbeds and pickups are great. Backup trailers are necessary for the exact same reasons you stated.
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I just think it makes it easyer.No trailer to back up,to by tires for.Don't have to worry about employees jack knifeing the trailer into the side of tow vehicle.I have a 1997 F-250 I got for a good deal.It has a 8 ft bed.I want to build a frame out of square tubing.Put a sheet of aluminum diamond plate and then mount a 65gal buffer tank,35gal chemical tank,8gal fuel tank,battery for the machine,8gpm pressurepro cold water machine and 2-hannay or cox hose reels.
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
Tony that's the ticket buddy.Everything ready to roll,I like that.
Quick and easy. This one even has reclaim.
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Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
Is it legal to drive with any water in the tank?
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
We live in the wild west here. There are zero issues with that here. In most areas you just have to stay under the max weight and you are fine. This tank full weighs about 2800 lbs. We drive it full everywhere. If you can't drive with it full nay as well have a 50 gallon tank.
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midatlanticpower
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Yes as long as your not over the Gvw of the truck. The gross vehicle wait is listed on the inside of your door frame. I always load out trucks film of water and go to truck stop scale to get an accurate total weight of the truck and payload.
AZ PowerWash Pros
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F250! You can def put a skid in your F250. I have mine in a 1500. But the problem is the size of your water tank. You can fit like 150 gallon tops if you get a sqaure tank. I was too lazy to do that and I popped a 65 gallon rounded tank in mine. We use it strictly for residential work with access to water.
Here is my fleet with the exception of 2 trucks and 1 trailer: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bpidpcpxqlyzpb2/20131219_120939.mp4
The pressure pro is mounted in the 1500 on the right side at the beginning of the video.
Here is some new striping we did to the front of the place! our xmas present! we used our pressure washing stencil from Sun Brite to paint our curbs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wll9dsma13mcsuf/20131212_130528.jpg
That's great. Is it a 150 or 250?
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
Thanks for the video Ty,Im going to start on this project after Christmas.Thats a nice fleet you have there.
CL Scott
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And it's clearly working for you! Nice fleet, and you still have great pride in your work - adding the striping and all. Most guys just let stuff like that go. Keep rolling Ty, this is like a Cyber-Intern-ship!
We currently build drop in skids for both long bed and short bed trucks. Here's a link of an example, http://shop.powerwashstore.com/High-Pressure-and-Soft-Wash-Skid-PWS-SKID-PWS-SKID.htm. One of our skids set up with an 8gpm Pressure Pro, 100 gal buffer tank, 55 gal chemical tank, and 2 hose reels all on the diamond plate drop in skid would run you about $6000. If you'd like us to do the work for you give us a call.