Antifreezing dump bed

When I ran rock & dirt in Chicago years ago, we couldn't use any kind of fuel, oil, antifreeze etc. because (1)you can smell it and the contractors didn't like, (2)when you brought dirt into the pit they had a guy with an electronic sniffer on a stick and he would poke the load in a few spots as well as use his own nose. Many loads were rejected.

I did the same as poppapump1332 with the scoop or so of calcium/magnesium chloride per gallon (ice melt from Home Depot) but I had one of those steel bottles that they put the syrup for soda pop into. I put a pressure regulator on it, connected it to the truck air, mounted it to the truck and had a very long 1/4 or 3/8 hose on a small reel. It was pressurized all the time, no more need to pump a small sprayer bottle. I had to spray multiple times a day so the dirt wouldn't freeze since I had a steel uninsulated box with no liner.

 

a liner if your dump is aluminum.

 

A well sprayed liner and the loads slip out like budda!

 

So far depending on what I've hauled it's either been plastic or tv antifreeze. Tv antifreeze at Walmart is the cheaper option. A sprayer and a gallon and a half of the antifreeze. Loads slide right out. Just spray up the sides and front as well as bottom. But our dispatch usually tells us what the customer will accept. I mostly haul scrap aluminum steel and glass.

 

When I was hauling coal I've used a few different things. The first was a home brew mix of antifreeze and windshield washer fluid, the other was premixed made just for spraying the beds both worked equally well I wish I could remember the name of the premix stuff. For a while when we were out of either we just used plenty of salt around the hoistbox and the rest of the bed too and didn't have any problems.

 

I like the antifreeze and washer fluid idea!! Would make it a little cheaper. I've been using prestone rv antifreeze. I could save a buck on the cheap Walmart stuff but not sure how good it is

 

As mentioned above, diesel in a sprayer all around the nose area and itll help her slide on out!!

 

One winter I hauled glycerin to the coal mines in WV and KY. One of the mine workers was telling me about how they did what they did. They added 1qt of glycerin per ton of coal to keep it from freezing to itself. And when the rail car was slowly pulled forward during the loading process, just before the overhead was a 3 head sprayer, spraying the entire time the train moved forward. Even the couplers.

Find yourself a place that processes used cooking oil for biodiesel and get some glycerin. Not many places want that stuff, so I'm sure that they would be glad to give it to you just to get rid of it.

 

I have been using dish soap lately. Done about 25 loads with minimal problems.

 

Last company I worked for we used liquid calcium or magnesium or chloride depending on which one the sanders were full of. Company I work for now he buys peanut oil. Peanut oil makes a mess and can stain the aluminum if you spill any but its environmentally friendly