The Pneumatic Tanker Thread

That new 1580 is a sexy trailer.

 

Yea it is. The aeroMAC looks to be its bigger brother but they are to small for what we do. I kinda wanna get back into the pneumatic's but dont wanna deal with the lime that we haul in the Portland area. Their loaders are very messy and its high calcium so it just destroys anything shiny.

This was from when my truck was still new and before the aluminum dulled. The trailer was already acid washed so had the wash crew hit her with a little on this wash so the trailer actually came out looking good. Its a 2000cu ft Beall and because the nose isnt welded on straight the alignment is off so we can only but 45,000 on the quad so we can only pack 32 ton in it instead of closer to 33.5 ton.

 

A couple weeks have gone by with no new posts... So lets let the rookie ask a question.. Theres a trailer for sale for sale with flo-cone and aeretors. Looking to haul cement with them. Did a few loads and the off load time is ridiculous. What can I do to speed up the process?

 

Keep your discharge hose as short and straight as possible, use plenty of tank pressure (aerators, not top air), and use just enough line air to keep from plugging up.

Once the aerators start rattling on a pod that's almost empty, open the next one, then close the old one once it's completely empty (when the tank pressure starts to drop). This way you have uninterrupted flow in the discharge line.

 

Taking a 34 at the Hampton Inn down in Altus OK a couple weekends ago. Just taking up about 8 parking spots.

 

Anybody hauling rock salt in their pneumatics ?

 

We do. We haul extra course to a few places that use it for water treatment. We haul cubes to a couple hospitals. The cubes are the worst. Product valve has to be opened all the way to keep them flowing, sounds like you’re shooting rocks out the back of your trailer.

 

That sounds about right. I went down to the shipper last week and looked at the material. Most of it is the size of an un-shelled peanut and smaller,
The unload points will vary but the ones I've looked at are all small overhead drive-under hoppers that hold just over three loads. They're in county road department yards so access is pretty good. They'll let us clean out the trailers after unloading, too. We haul a lot of cement so clean-out is a must.
The horizontal hose run is about five feet and the vertical is just over thirty.
If a load sits overnite does it tend to clump up? The shipper tells me it's classed as 95% dry but I've heard shipper stories before.
Is it abrasive to the hoses and fittings?
If it plugs up while unloading do the usual bag of tricks work to unplug it or is there something special you have to do?

 

I wouldn’t worry about it clumping overnight, even out here in the winter it doesn’t really cause any unloading issues that can’t be solved by working the valve back and forth to break it up. The main thing would be making sure the trailer is dry before loading cement.

It is somewhat abrasive. We use stainless hoses for all salt products.

I’ve never plugged up with rock salt (knock on wood). As long as you have good tank pressure it’s fairly easy to keep it moving.

 

Taking my 34, climbed up on my trailer and grabbed this pic since it wasn’t a sealed load. This stuff comes off easy but can freeze in the cone in the winter.