Cheap way to air off tank trailer

CK. to see if you can put it where the stairs are bolted on to the frame behind the fuel tank, then later when they tell you need a pump you can just switch the PTO driveshaft over back and forth to what ever one you need at the time??

 

You need a cooler if you run a hydraulic pto to compressor.

 

The tanker company I worked for used a PTO-driven Hydro-Chem air/liquid pump. Then switched to trucks that used truck air. Unload times with either system was between 45-90 minutes for our phosphoric acid product.

 

Maybe you could just add several
More air tanks on the tractor ?

that are separate circuit from the regular tanks , and switchable , so they wouldn’t add any time to charging the brake air tanks .


They would charge up while you’re driving .
Would speed up the process at least in the beginning.

 

I must be missing something. I can only put about 30 psi in the tanker or the relief valve will pop up. Tractor's air doesn't take long to get there. It is what it is...

 

Not if you have enough hydraulic fluid capacity... Larger hydraulic fluid tank solves most issues with hydraulic fluid getting to warm.

I learned this when building log splitters... Played around with a borrowed splitter that had only about 2 gallon reservoir, tank would get so hot it would burn you. When I built my own I put a 15 gallon reservoir on it, tank barely gets warm enough to melt snow... Even after running continuously for several hours.

 

Matlack had Ross 4 cyl. tractor air compressors and no aux. compressors [left room for a dry bulk blower] and that was a lot quicker than just a tractor glad hand.