sorry goingbroke you just reminded me of some questions i wanted to ask. its an enclosed lube truck with two 1500 gal tanks on the front and an enclosed compartment for all the spools of hoses on the back. the oils are all stored on top, its really a nice setup,like some one said route the exhaust through the oil storage area or something. i go to work at 10pm tonight,itll start out by waiting for 45 mins. to fill my scraper up with hyd oil unless they fixed it today, which i doubt.
Scraping at night?
If I remember right the trucks I have seen are set up either to circulate engine coolant through a heater in the oil tanks or have diesel fired generator on board and that runs a 110v heating element in the oil tanks. The 110v would be the easiest to work with as long as there was a way to power it. Some of the joys of working in Wyoming, according to the computer its 1 deg here and 35mph wind. Hard to get anything to flow.
i was supposed to run my scraper last night,but ipulled up to our little office trailer and my scraper was sitting jacknifed with a huge puddle of oil under it.they finaly shut it down for repairs,so i ran the 9r last night.where in wy are you at?
Southeast corner and you?
When I worked in Wyoming, we used battleship anchor chain for a wind gauge. If it was flopping at about a 45 degree angle, that was normal and nobody thought nothing of it. We never had much snow, it would be coming down in truckload lots in Idaho, blow right through Wyoming and end up in eastern Nebraska. Over to Gillette, everybody, including the cows, horses and sheep, stand at about 70 to 80 degrees to the vertical against the wind. If the wind dies, everyone falls over and folks from Colorado have to go up and stand them up again. This doesn't happen very often. Up in the Cloud Peaks, folks can't stand still for more than a couple of minutes in the winter. If they do, they get covered up with snow and have to wait till late summer before anyone can find them. Just good fun folks. Wyoming has a wonderful summer, all two weeks of it. If you don't like the weather in Wyoming, just hold your breath a minute. It will get worse.
Windy ? Hi Surfer-Joe, That wind is nothing compared to Prudhoe Bay area . Generally it blows snow, east to west, for 3 days straight , then takes a day, to turn around, and blows west to east, for 3 days, for a weekly cycle. All winter, thus we end up, with the all snow drifts, lying a north and south direction. The wind is so constant and cyclicle, that when I was working in one pit or dike for a week or longer , I would recognize the same snowflakes, that went by earlier, now coming back ! Huh ! LOL :drinkup Then any cross country travelers via, snowmachine, Cat, Rolligon, etc. knows automatically which direction they are traveling by the the constant bumpety, bump, crossing the snowdrifts. Which by the way is hard granular snow. Also the lakes or ponds are, all Longer in the north south direction, than the east west direction. Due to the stronger magnetic pull at the higher Latitudes, and the weak surrounding soils. Really noticeable when airborne.
Lube truck ? 637, You have to change to different viscosities as the temps drop. All oil , gear lube, hydraulic oil, grease, etc. product needs to be changed for colder weather operations. Use a enclosed service truck , with a Lister Diesel genset to run the air compressor that runs your pumping equipment. The waste heat from the air cooled genset provides, the warm ambient temp for the products. Also powers outside lights for night time operation and other accessories needed. Check what other comapnies elsewhere have done, no need to re-invent the wheel. Fueling is always seperately, by another service truck, or company.
well rumor has it that the 08 budget includes a new lube truck,i know that there are alot of different ways to set it up for the weather, wether they do it or not is a different story,i can only hope. surfer-joe sounds like you spent some time in wy,and was glad to get back to arizona.the cloudpeak area is beautiful, i work at the base of the big horn mtns. on the other side from gillette
I fixed it for ya Slayer.
thanx countryboy i need all the help i can get. :drinkup
We have two trucks here at my yard and we pretty much get trucks out of the pile(scrap yard) and throw some tanks,pumps,compressor and away we go....we have alot and I mean alot of problems with our pumps freezing up and oils getting thick. Our trucks never leave the yard though....
northart, so how windy is windy? i thought here in wyo we had the worst, my dad lives in s. wyo where its usual to get 80 to 100 mph gusts, 50 to 60 is just the normal breeze. i know a guy who owns a peterbilt wrecker and when the winds pick up he just waits by the phone, cause one by one tractor trailers will start to get blown over on a stretch of i 25 between wheatland and cheyenne called bourdough {sp?} there have been times ive counted over 20 trailers laying on their sides waiting for the winds to die down so my buddy could tow them to his yard.another instance of not taking a picture of the norm, i wish i would of now. so over the last ten or so years does the wind seem to be getting worse? here it does less and less moisture snow and rain, but more and more wind, i think its global warming.
When I was living in Wyoming I used to get a chuckle driving north out of Rock Springs. The Cottonwood trees at Farson and Eden are growing at about a 75 degree angle leaning east. These are trees with a diamater of 6' or so.