The journey begins - purchased a truck.

When I used to build pressure washers, our 18 with a cat pump would do 4000 with big GPM. It would cut right through a 2x4!!!

 

Dadgummit man, What on earth needed that kind of pressure washer?

 

I don't know really. I just shipped them out. Since the 18's were so expensive, we'd test them out back before shipping. I know you could run two wands off one, and while it could do 4000 psi, pressure washing is all about the GPM.

 

I used to do some pressure washing with my dad and we had a 4k psi 4 GPM and the point of having the power is to reach high places without a ladder

 

I had a small gas powered power washer. I had like green mold on my deck so I used that on it. I was like WOW, it's really cleaning it up. When I stopped for a second I realized I was drilling the crap out of the wood with huge ruts. I had to replace a few sections.

 

Two lifetimes ago, we used a high pressure water setup to remove jet blast resistant joint sealer on concrete slabs. First pass was with a plow setup on a small tractor. Then water/sand to get the remnants off the sides.

I don't know where my Dad got a hold of this thing, but it was an old Ford tractor frame cutout mounted on a skid. 4 cyl diesel driving a big cat pump. If memory serves, I think it was good for around 4,000 psi at 10 gph. Also had a sand injection nozzle with ceramic inserts. The inserts would last about a day. We'd use about a truckload of bagged sand a week when the weather would hold out. That rig would cut through concrete like butter.

 

Well I did it again, set me a new record, I now have tarped 4 yes 4 times this year. Think I will take next week off to celebrate.
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Thank you for this thread, I just finished reading the whole thing and will be starting on Double Yellows next.

I hope and pray your sister in law is doing better.