Thanks Joe Ortiz

Christopher

Christopher

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Just wanted to publicly thank Joe Ortiz for helping me with cleaning a parking lot.

I got 8 stores in the South Texas region and needed help cleaning the parking lots as some are larger than others and I have to be back home for the Sunday truck washing.

I talked to Joe about helping me with some of these locations and he helped me with one of them this past weekend.

We only had 1 water supply when we started but found another on the back side of the building so that went to Joe's rig to keep him supplied with water.

Running the 5.5 and 8gpm machines on my trailer we were running out of water so some changes had to be made to keep the production going. We got things to a manageable level and things got worked out on my trailer.

With Joe's help we got the parking lot done in time for me to drive 2.5 hours home to rest for an hour before leaving to go wash the Sunday trucks. I had been up since 6am Saturday morning and finally got to sleep at 3pm Sunday afternoon, I was very tired to say the least.

I could not have got the parking lot done in time and made it back to wash the sunday trucks without Joe's help.

Joe will be helping me with other locations also.

Thanks again Joe!
 
definately good to being able to rely on other when you really need it like that. How many rigs did you run total?
 
I had 2 machines running on my trailer and Joe brought his trailer with 2 rigs but ran 1 of them.

I have 2 more Landa machines but no trailer for them right now. I would like to add one of the Landa machines to my trailer but I believe the weight will be too much for my trailer (7000 lbs. max capacity).

I have bent an axle 2.5 years ago and had to change out the axle and buy 2 new tires as the tires were balding out on the inside tread. I just bent the front axle and am going through the same thing again so I don't want to risk bending another axle so that is why I would like to change out axles for stronger axles or get another trailer rated for a lot more weight.

I looked into changing out the axles for 5200 or 6000 pound axles but I will have to go to 6 lug wheels which means new or used tires and rims, changing out axles, hubs, brakes, etc....which will be around $1000 (which I do not have right now) but for another 800 more or less I could get a new trailer ready to go so I think that after I get a lot of things paid off and get paid from these stores then I will just order or buy a new trailer and do the bedliner stuff all over it to help keep it from rusting so fast here.

One thing that I was wondering about is that if I changed out the axles and if I had to go over the scales, it would show that my trailer is over weight according to the mfr. tag.

I know of a couple guys that got caught with too much weight on their trailers and had to jump through a lot of hoops, get a CDL driver to drive their rigs after emptying a lot of weight off the trailer, rent a back hoe and operator to remove a lot of concrete off the trailer out in the middle of no-where and in the end found out that the factory aluminum wheels are not rated for that much weight so they had to bring out another truck and in the end paid about $15,000 which included fines from D.O.T. to get the trailer back home.

I don't want to go through that. I think that I would just rather get a stronger trailer but still wondering right now after things get paid off and I am able to do something.

We had a total of 3 machines running but I want to try connecting some machines together for more gpm's to make the big guy work faster, I think that maybe that will make the parking lots go faster, I will try it out and see.
 
No worries Chris glad to help.
 
I always start the specs on my trailers at 10k lbs for that reason, and to avoid broken springs. It has worked out really well. It used to be that I broke a spring a year and I have only had one spring break, but that was when my guy taco'd a rim on a curb. Idiot.
 
Scott Stone said:
I always start the specs on my trailers at 10k lbs for that reason, and to avoid broken springs. It has worked out really well. It used to be that I broke a spring a year and I have only had one spring break, but that was when my guy taco'd a rim on a curb. Idiot.
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No profiling!:dirol:
 
El Flojo said:
No worries Chris glad to help.
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Hope you are ready for this weekend, 2 locations to do but don't think that will get them both done in one nite but will try our best with the machines we have.
 
Joe is a great person and a good worker.

He moved further up north here in Texas and got out of the business.
 
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