I have been in construction almost my entire Life. Except my 11 years In the Army. My hat goes off to those truck drivers. Well done and made Chris happy. Everyone wins.
A few days ago I was spreading 2 inch base in 6 inch ruts between a shed and a power line leaning hard to the left with manual tailgate in an 89 IH on air ride and loose hinge pins. Yes,Newer trucks make it a LOT easier
The t880, has proven itself as an absolute solid workhorse platform from KW. We run a fleet of 5, and the only gripe is when I finally get my seat set nice and low, there isn't any air-ride left in it. What the hell? Sure do wish they would have kept the t-800 seat and arm-rest configuration in these cabs.
You know I get a kick out of all these Hot Shots on here talking about that ain't nothing. Or the ones that say try that without chains. Can anybody these days give credit where credit is due. It takes a skilled driver to maintain speed and know how quickly his box is rising and have the chains set at the right gap in order to lay it like those drivers did. Why is it in the business of heavy equipment and construction there's always got to be Johnny's on the spot that are criticizing everybody. These guys in those dump trucks been doing this awhile and know their business give them some credit
AGREED! I used to drive tri axle dumps spreading stone like this. I knew how many chain links it took to set the gate properly for whatever thickness the operator was asking for on the dump. And I'd bet those drivers in this video could very easily do the same job while driving in reverse...I did - I did a fair amount of what's called 'chip on tar' hauling - you had to dump the stone chips on fresh sprayed tar while doing so in reverse.
The reason drivers and machine operators dont get credit is generally they are lazy people thats why they drive lorrys and plant just kids playing with big expensive toys the only people i'd want to drink with in the construction industry are the physical labourers the real hard men who do the real hard work not the gobshite plant operators who if they have to pick a shovel up theyre busted in 10 minutes
@@davidlamont5793 I'm a 52 yr old operator doing sewer/ water utilities, and I will out hand shovel my laborers that are in their 20s.....sounds to me like you might have been passed over for an operators slot for whatever reason and now you make a habit of cutting them down.....oh well ...the world needs ditch diggers too...LOL
That right there, That's my dream when i grow older right now i am 14 turning 15 in 5 months, And when I become a Adult i want to get a Class B and Buy a dump truck. Sublet Out for Paving companies, Do work like this also Maybe Get well known in my area so i get Hired a lot. Maybe After having a Dump truck I buy a 2nd one and Hire a Worker Or Buy a Excavator and Do Excavation.
STAY in School! STUDY HARD!!!! First get a degree, maybe in business management. You can obviously use help with your grammar & punctuation. Only then, think about starting a business for yourself.
Boss sent me and another guy out on a driveway job just like this one but way smaller. Dump truck driver hooked us up. Very little grading. Easy day of work that was.
Spent my summers during my 4 university years working for a site prep and road paving contractor that was a sub to my dads GC firm... the most honest day of work I’ve ever done up to that point... definitely earned my weekly check
good lord there are some big talkers on here lol. Those drivers did a fine job. Nothing wrong with it at. I drive tractor trailer and dump truck too and think they did great. Spreading is tricky especially if you go a while without doing it
It ain't hard fellas. 1.set chains 2.pick gear that will get you moving 3.trip gate after you roll forward 4.get your rpm's up and stay there till she's empty.. unless your like my boss who like to speed up and slow down raise and lower the bed and all kinds of herky jerky shit, he make a perfect dirt bike track but a shitty driveway.
When every truck can spread like this, i would loose my Job graderoperator and need my grader anymore. The Problem is that not enough material for grading, so i like to have more gravel for my blade. For reparing roads it might be ok, but when i have to built in higher, i need lots of gravel for my grader, i push sometimes 2000 tons gravel a day. We in Germany use graders like dozers, because we all have front blades.
Lol me and my friend did this at work, we work as grounds maintenance on a golf course. We went out to repair the cart paths and he drove the john deere utility vehicle as he dumped stone, and I followed him with the tractor with front loader and back dragged it till it looked perfect. It's much faster than dumping in a pile and pushing it around
Thanks for the video! Would you please do an update on your pond? It has been raining a lot here in the SE. You should have a good amount in there by now. Thanks!
I wish i could get those easy tailgate jobs. I always gotta tailgate driveways with a 7 axle. Trees and wires breaking my antenna. I could do this asleep.
Sure wish I had that tile of material around here just that alone make life easy . I like that blade you have would you recommend buying one or a different brand
Hi Nice outfits and good driving , Half the real battles the good material your'e trying to dump and spread, The guys that come here to drop gravel have grass and fricking big lumps of crap you couldn't tip out descent right from the start. and would struggle to level and pound flat with a D9 , if a guy don't pick the lumps and crap out first . our guys are coming here next week if it dries up, just a shame I wouldn't dare show them up here for the other end of the spectrum comparison.
it makes it a lot easier if you are in an automatic. But that being said...........if you don't have to hold the button in............you can work a stick in 1st or 2nd gear and slowly raise the bed while driving pretty easily. It just takes about 3 or 4 times to get the practice down. Looks like he had the chain set at probably the 3rd notch or so. But every truck is a little different.
Yea yea yea, flat driveway, no power lines, no curves, no tree limbs, if they messed that one up they shouldn't be doing it, but we see it everyday, thanks for the good videos
+Joey Fox I worked for a company that had 24 dump trucks. Only 4 of us could or would spread dump for grader operators. The others couldn't be bothered. They would just pop the gate, dump a pile, and go. They figured it was the grader operators job to spread it, not theirs.
What gear are you in 2nd? Nice Spread. I've sorta got the basics of spreading . . Get box just above cab . Have box in hold position at that angle . Do you simultaneously pop the gate and the pull back on the box when you start rolling with the cluch fully engaged ?I'm just starting out. Thx
I drive a 2015 western star s.f. triaxle in pa its light weight is 24,700 gross out at 73,280 can haul 24.50 ton which is great because I get paid by the ton
There are some KW triaxle units in SC with an R/S-Godwin AR steel dump (same brand as video) that weigh in at 24,600 with a full tank of fuel and a driver.
I've done a lot of truck driving but not much with dump trucks. Any chance you could iget one of these drivers to do a "how to" video with you sharing tips? Looks like you could just set your tailgate chains and run with it but I'm certain there's a LOT MORE to it.
it is not that hard...after a bit of trial and error you kind of know how much chain you need to have...then raise the basket till you hear grit falling against the back..start driving and open hatch....and rais basket to maintain flow...pretty much att thats to it...now keeping track of cables in the air..other traffic and so on...thats when it gets tricky ;)
Come on up to Michigan, gravel trains .a 32 ft trailer and a 24ft. Pup weighing up to 161,000 pads. No permits need for those weight. Tons of fun to back up even more fun when you had joe-dog hooked to 32 and have to back it under the pup.develop backing skills quickly
Hmmm...a "gravel train", eh? Here we call that a dude in a pickup. When you do 3 trailers, a whole litter of pups, one cat, weigh 876,419 pounds while Larry/Curly/&Moe-dog hooked and back it uphill around 3 S-curves and a one-lane bridge in ice fog at night, do a U-turn and stop by if you're in the area. We may let ya fill out a job app for our entry level position. There's only 30 or 40 ahead of you at the moment, and ya don't even need a drivers license for that.
Say what...that looks like what I used to haul - 2RC - and 2RC has a lot of damp rock dust in it. When 2RC is graded then put a roller on it, the surface almost turns into a concrete-like medium. With proper maintenance - a mild regrade and re-roll - that road will last for years.
Haha my drivers dump and run!!! And we dont have a grader... All me in the tracked skidsteer, comes out lookin just as good just takes alittle longer :-\
+Coltgov191145 yeah but once you get a grader youll see just how bumpy it really is. even if it looks like glass that grader will find any low or high spots!
You would have a short fat pile without chains, or you would have a pile heaping up on 1 side and choppy going out. Don't talk like you have done it before
It's not that difficult once you get it down right. You just lift enough and move the same way as these drivers but don't lift the bed as high initially. Once the materials start slowing down, having the bed at about 1/3 to half way up should evenly dump at least the larger stones such as number 3 and a bit more up for the 21A and take off in 1st gear too. Just don't slam your tailgate inside a tunnel though, they hate that, lol. I did it multiple times dumping both 21A and number 3 stone for the new CSX railroad tracks they are building underneath the 11th and M St area in Washington DC.
Oh wow, nice straight flat and dry rock. How hard could that be. I wouldn't want a 12g do any more than they have to. A danger getting there and make the Dump Truck do all the work on the job at how much per hour? TD Atlanta
nice when there is no over head wires or limbs. I have done it with Both. I have done it so thin there was no Machine work Involved.don’t get me wrong it’s not Easy by any stretch.setting the Chains right and the speed and the body lift. all have too be Coordinated.and don’t forget about any over head Obstructions.a lot of guys will paint lines on the road to remind you.all in all it’s that easy.
You don't like them dumping along one edge so you can blade it over the width of the road instead of them dumping the centre and grading out to each edge?
Anybody know how much material I would need to lift 50'x50' 3FT compacted? Something that would compact well and have good drainage properties too. What can I expect to pay for that Delivered in Central Florida?
Those blue trucks are absolutely beautiful. Nice to see an owner take pride in the way his trucks are maintained and kept clean like that.
I have been in construction almost my entire Life. Except my 11 years In the Army. My hat goes off to those truck drivers. Well done and made Chris happy. Everyone wins.
Gate limiter any mug can do it. Great simple idea though, nice and smoooooth.
A few days ago I was spreading 2 inch base in 6 inch ruts between a shed and a power line leaning hard to the left with manual tailgate in an 89 IH on air ride and loose hinge pins. Yes,Newer trucks make it a LOT easier
There is a truck driver who knows what he is doing👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The secrets in the dual chains, and a feel for the pour and a constant line and speed.
Nice to watch people who know "WHAT THE HELL THEY'RE DOING"!
The t880, has proven itself as an absolute solid workhorse platform from KW. We run a fleet of 5, and the only gripe is when I finally get my seat set nice and low, there isn't any air-ride left in it. What the hell? Sure do wish they would have kept the t-800 seat and arm-rest configuration in these cabs.
You know I get a kick out of all these Hot Shots on here talking about that ain't nothing. Or the ones that say try that without chains. Can anybody these days give credit where credit is due. It takes a skilled driver to maintain speed and know how quickly his box is rising and have the chains set at the right gap in order to lay it like those drivers did. Why is it in the business of heavy equipment and construction there's always got to be Johnny's on the spot that are criticizing everybody. These guys in those dump trucks been doing this awhile and know their business give them some credit
That is so true. If there was a channel on here dedicated to brain surgery you'd get some armchair wise-ass saying they could do it better! 👍
AGREED! I used to drive tri axle dumps spreading stone like this. I knew how many chain links it took to set the gate properly for whatever thickness the operator was asking for on the dump. And I'd bet those drivers in this video could very easily do the same job while driving in reverse...I did - I did a fair amount of what's called 'chip on tar' hauling - you had to dump the stone chips on fresh sprayed tar while doing so in reverse.
10/4
The reason drivers and machine operators dont get credit is generally they are lazy people thats why they drive lorrys and plant just kids playing with big expensive toys the only people i'd want to drink with in the construction industry are the physical labourers the real hard men who do the real hard work not the gobshite plant operators who if they have to pick a shovel up theyre busted in 10 minutes
@@davidlamont5793 I'm a 52 yr old operator doing sewer/ water utilities, and I will out hand shovel my laborers that are in their 20s.....sounds to me like you might have been passed over for an operators slot for whatever reason and now you make a habit of cutting them down.....oh well ...the world needs ditch diggers too...LOL
Thanks for the inspiration. just started a small company myself and I love the work. Your videos are a real inspiration
How’s the business going
right on! I ran a 685 leeboy for a few years and always appreciated a good spread. nice machine you have there hand!:D
Drivers with skills, and what looks like a company that still gives a damn!
Gregory Buchanan k
Good drivers and good machine. All I can say give those drivers a raise.
3 for 3,.....Good Drivers for sure. Also they seem to be able to keep those trucks clean, nice to see.
+Reg Sparkes plus the trucks are brand new! lol
letsdig18 That helps!
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Excellent work. These guys are great!
That right there, That's my dream when i grow older right now i am 14 turning 15 in 5 months, And when I become a Adult i want to get a Class B and Buy a dump truck. Sublet Out for Paving companies, Do work like this also Maybe Get well known in my area so i get Hired a lot. Maybe After having a Dump truck I buy a 2nd one and Hire a Worker Or Buy a Excavator and Do Excavation.
STAY in School! STUDY HARD!!!! First get a degree, maybe in business management.
You can obviously use help with your grammar & punctuation. Only then, think about starting a business for yourself.
It's been 3 years where are you at in your dream , being a dump truck operator.....
Yea where you at 18 year old.
mighty fine trucks and great team work, you need that on a site, everyone working together and taking pride in their work, good show.
Nice work, good drivers, makes your work easyer I think Chris.....
Boss sent me and another guy out on a driveway job just like this one but way smaller. Dump truck driver hooked us up. Very little grading. Easy day of work that was.
Spent my summers during my 4 university years working for a site prep and road paving contractor that was a sub to my dads GC firm... the most honest day of work I’ve ever done up to that point... definitely earned my weekly check
Thanks for putting these videos on it brings back some childhood me watching those dumptrucks
good lord there are some big talkers on here lol. Those drivers did a fine job. Nothing wrong with it at. I drive tractor trailer and dump truck too and think they did great. Spreading is tricky especially if you go a while without doing it
That's years 📴 experience under. The belt 👍👍
Almost don't need the grader. Well done
It ain't hard fellas.
1.set chains
2.pick gear that will get you moving
3.trip gate after you roll forward
4.get your rpm's up and stay there till she's empty..
unless your like my boss who like to speed up and slow down raise and lower the bed and all kinds of herky jerky shit, he make a perfect dirt bike track but a shitty driveway.
😂😂 the. Boss part was funny
Haha your boss is the one paying though lol, you got your priorities all messed up
sounds good keyboard guy..
Very true my brother we have some true true Rock spreaders in St Louis on one of them
Damn good tailgating! I've had to do that with 6" minus gravel before.
A thing of beauty 👏👏👏
When every truck can spread like this, i would loose my Job graderoperator and need my grader anymore. The Problem is that not enough material for grading, so i like to have more gravel for my blade. For reparing roads it might be ok, but when i have to built in higher, i need lots of gravel for my grader, i push sometimes 2000 tons gravel a day. We in Germany use graders like dozers, because we all have front blades.
Nice trucks. Makes work sorta fun when you're working with people that know what they're doing, huh?
It would've been considered a perfectly smooth road here in Poland and Russia
And that's before they put the stone down
love t880 so much !!!!!!!!!
Lol me and my friend did this at work, we work as grounds maintenance on a golf course. We went out to repair the cart paths and he drove the john deere utility vehicle as he dumped stone, and I followed him with the tractor with front loader and back dragged it till it looked perfect. It's much faster than dumping in a pile and pushing it around
I hope you gave those drivers a cash bonus for making your job that much easier.
Just started driving dump trucks myself. I can't wait til I can tailgate as clean and smooth as these guys
no you won"t
Thats when you have operators and not steering wheel holders. The word is "Professionalism"👌
MrBigR 504
wow, finally credit for the drivets
Thanks for the video! Would you please do an update on your pond? It has been raining a lot here in the SE. You should have a good amount in there by now. Thanks!
nice looking trucks. They look better with a regular dump body on there compared to the T880 we have set up with a transfer box.
That's why they have chains on tailgates.
That is cool, and I thought they were just as a safety precaution.
I wish i could get those easy tailgate jobs. I always gotta tailgate driveways with a 7 axle. Trees and wires breaking my antenna. I could do this asleep.
Damn.....those guys are good!
Sure wish I had that tile of material around here just that alone make life easy . I like that blade you have would you recommend buying one or a different brand
WHAT??? No Back Spreading?? 😂😂😂😂 C'mon guys!! LOL!! Good job drivers!!
This is one of satisfying vidoes
Nice. Now if ya could do that with hotmix . . . Rakers said NO NO NO lol
Good at what they do!!!
now thats how it's done.
gonna take you forever with that tiny grader
Hi Nice outfits and good driving , Half the real battles the good material your'e trying to dump and spread, The guys that come here to drop gravel have grass and fricking big lumps of crap you couldn't tip out descent right from the start. and would struggle to level and pound flat with a D9 , if a guy don't pick the lumps and crap out first . our guys are coming here next week if it dries up, just a shame I wouldn't dare show them up here for the other end of the spectrum comparison.
This box-bed looks comfy to spread with,,,, Not like the ones we have on the scanias and benz trucks at my work place
In Pennsylvania, still tying to find one that can stay on their side of the yellow line. Not many can
it makes it a lot easier if you are in an automatic. But that being said...........if you don't have to hold the button in............you can work a stick in 1st or 2nd gear and slowly raise the bed while driving pretty easily. It just takes about 3 or 4 times to get the practice down. Looks like he had the chain set at probably the 3rd notch or so. But every truck is a little different.
It’s fun to lift the box too high and carry the front wheels!!
so thankful you got a better camera :P
That was fun to watch
Try that with bad stone that won't flow and on a bad uneven road xD I've been there man
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Saleem Khan absolutely bro
All I get is tip and run drivers and a backhoe to move it
It really helps when the material has a consistent moisture, not sure if I like the looks of the new T880.
amazingly solid 👍
Nice work!
on a road like that we spread the metal with truck and trailers in New Zealand
Nice trucks !
Yea yea yea, flat driveway, no power lines, no curves, no tree limbs, if they messed that one up they shouldn't be doing it, but we see it everyday, thanks for the good videos
+Joey Fox ive seen some messes made with people trying to spread though....
+Joey Fox I worked for a company that had 24 dump trucks. Only 4 of us could or would spread dump for grader operators. The others couldn't be bothered. They would just pop the gate, dump a pile, and go. They figured it was the grader operators job to spread it, not theirs.
Square boxes
Joey Fox I was the only driver the foreman would let chain spread too. I was also the only one who would allow the boss to buttfuck me on the clock.
nice work indeed, brother.
What gear are you in 2nd? Nice Spread. I've sorta got the basics of spreading . . Get box just above cab . Have box in hold position at that angle . Do you simultaneously pop the gate and the pull back on the box when you start rolling with the cluch fully engaged ?I'm just starting out. Thx
Matching speed with flow..
The best rock spreaders we live in st. Louis
You are a absolute artist Chris this another fantastic job.
Cool machines
that was awesome
holy crap , he is GOOD !
I drive a 2015 western star s.f. triaxle in pa its light weight is 24,700 gross out at 73,280 can haul 24.50 ton which is great because I get paid by the ton
There are some KW triaxle units in SC with an R/S-Godwin AR steel dump (same brand as video) that weigh in at 24,600 with a full tank of fuel and a driver.
I've done a lot of truck driving but not much with dump trucks. Any chance you could iget one of these drivers to do a "how to" video with you sharing tips? Looks like you could just set your tailgate chains and run with it but I'm certain there's a LOT MORE to it.
it is not that hard...after a bit of trial and error you kind of know how much chain you need to have...then raise the basket till you hear grit falling against the back..start driving and open hatch....and rais basket to maintain flow...pretty much att thats to it...now keeping track of cables in the air..other traffic and so on...thats when it gets tricky ;)
Thats it. Set the chains, break the load, start your roll, pop the gate, go one speed.
BIG WOWS put the tipper up and drive forwards
Come on up to Michigan, gravel trains .a 32 ft trailer and a 24ft. Pup weighing up to 161,000 pads. No permits need for those weight. Tons of fun to back up even more fun when you had joe-dog hooked to 32 and have to back it under the pup.develop backing skills quickly
Hmmm...a "gravel train", eh? Here we call that a dude in a pickup. When you do 3 trailers, a whole litter of pups, one cat, weigh 876,419 pounds while Larry/Curly/&Moe-dog hooked and back it uphill around 3 S-curves and a one-lane bridge in ice fog at night, do a U-turn and stop by if you're in the area. We may let ya fill out a job app for our entry level position. There's only 30 or 40 ahead of you at the moment, and ya don't even need a drivers license for that.
This is dope
good trucks good drivers, good money
That’s really not easy tho! Respect
Perfect
Has a lot to do with the product your're tipping. that stuff looks good and dry.
Say what...that looks like what I used to haul - 2RC - and 2RC has a lot of damp rock dust in it. When 2RC is graded then put a roller on it, the surface almost turns into a concrete-like medium. With proper maintenance - a mild regrade and re-roll - that road will last for years.
The magic of using chains..
Haha my drivers dump and run!!! And we dont have a grader... All me in the tracked skidsteer, comes out lookin just as good just takes alittle longer :-\
+Coltgov191145 yeah but once you get a grader youll see just how bumpy it really is. even if it looks like glass that grader will find any low or high spots!
For sure!
Its amazing
They obviously subscribed to the motto, "Do what you can, to make it easier on the next man." An excellent way to be.
With spreader chains its easy to do. Try it without the spreader chains.
You would have a short fat pile without chains, or you would have a pile heaping up on 1 side and choppy going out. Don't talk like you have done it before
It's not that difficult once you get it down right. You just lift enough and move the same way as these drivers but don't lift the bed as high initially. Once the materials start slowing down, having the bed at about 1/3 to half way up should evenly dump at least the larger stones such as number 3 and a bit more up for the 21A and take off in 1st gear too. Just don't slam your tailgate inside a tunnel though, they hate that, lol. I did it multiple times dumping both 21A and number 3 stone for the new CSX railroad tracks they are building underneath the 11th and M St area in Washington DC.
Gary Brown I have seen a chick spread better without chains then any guy with chains!
Drake Blackwolf sexist
No it’s called lift till it starts slowly pooring out and as you go keep lifting the bin every couple feet
They're good at buttering their toast in the mornings too!
Oh wow, nice straight flat and dry rock. How hard could that be. I wouldn't want a 12g do any more than they have to. A danger getting there and make the Dump Truck do all the work on the job at how much per hour? TD Atlanta
nice when there is no over head wires or limbs. I have done it with Both. I have done it so thin there was no Machine work Involved.don’t get me wrong it’s not Easy by any stretch.setting the Chains right and the speed and the body lift. all have too be Coordinated.and don’t forget about any over head Obstructions.a lot of guys will paint lines on the road to remind you.all in all it’s that easy.
yea what ever you do make it easy for the blade guy
Awesome video Chris but a bit short...
Very good
Them boys are good
Brand new equipment and chains make it pretty easy. Still a real nice job by all three.
Take the chains off then you'll see how good they are
Ain't that the truth!
You don't like them dumping along one edge so you can blade it over the width of the road instead of them dumping the centre and grading out to each edge?
He just needs to go a little faster and you won't have to hardly make any passes with the grader.
Anybody know how much material I would need to lift 50'x50' 3FT compacted? Something that would compact well and have good drainage properties too. What can I expect to pay for that Delivered in Central Florida?
Try it with an auto Scania that won’t lift body whilst In gear and no chains on back door, that is a skill if you can run it out like that
Can I ask why you got your emergency flashing lights on.....
AWESOME