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CA Pumice Blast

Anyone out there have a Farrow 185 and is up and running??

Were out here on the West Coast and wondering if there are any others?

cleveman

We do a lot of farrowing here, but I'm not familar with the 185 system. Do you mean you're aiming for 18.5 pigs per sow per year?

plazaman

im not sure if you are talking about the same farrow as he is. I think he is referring to a soda blast system thats used in england. i think...

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CA Pumice Blast

Thanks plazaman,

I was referring to the blasting method started in england that uses pumice as the media instead of sand or soda.

blastserv

maybe you could explain why you would use pumice?is it cheaper than corn cob or walnut shell?sounds like it works the same...

cleveman

The first thing I would do is start out with good seed stock, then feed and house them right. Use in-floor heat to keep the piglets away from the sow in the farrowing crate and you should be able to exceed 18.5 pigs per sow per year.

MasterBlaster

Yes I know this is an old thread... but we have a Farrow System 185 and are very busy with it.

In the construction trades space we strip, paint, sealant, dirt, dirt and more from concrete, stone, brick, wood, metal and hundreds of other surfaces all without producing airborne dust and without damage to the base surface.

It's a very powerful tool and our whole business is based on the process.

Dale

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Phoenix 2

Lets keep a good thing going. We are in the process of purchasing our first Farrow System. We are a restoration contractor and will use this as needed but recently we have decided to branch off and use the Farrow System as a stand alone business to clean and restore anything imaginable. I have searched for any reason not to purchase this system and persuade us to go a different way but i keep coming back to the Farrow System. It still seems to be a new consept in the U.S. and maybe due to the number of dry blasting systems available and dry blasting equipment already purchased.

Joe

adshutch

Dale,
I see you cover six states. Are you centrally located or do you have facilities in each?

MasterBlaster

Located in New Jersey, do jobs in all those other states.

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Betterblast

Dale, I tell a guy $700 to blast his auto with a special material like the walnut and they respond like I said $7,000. How the heck do you get work in other states as well as get them to pay you what must be quite a large sum to be worth the travel and possibly even hotel stays? Do you Jedi mind trick them or what.

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MasterBlaster

No I hate to say it but even in New Jersey most of the car guys live pay check to pay check... I just quoted a guy with a Mustang $1400 to do the whole car inside and out... never heard from him again.

Back in October I refocused the business..... instead trying to get anything and do one job at a time... I decided focus on referral work and then put my energies into networking with the groups that really could benefit from our dust free Farrow System process.

People who had one off jobs, really couldn't care if I was dust less but people and business who have a working clean reputation could benefit immensely from it and that's where the money-is.

For me Historic Restoration and High-End Design Build Construction where the Old homes are being reconstructed into NEW Homes in the $2.5 to $5 mil range.... made sense.

Boats are keep me busy... right now and I am swamped with them, but by the end of March they'll all be in the water and I won't start seeing boat's again until late October and if I'm lucky blast to the first week of December.

Commercial work also keeps me busy, like stripping 2 miles of yellow paint from concrete curbs, parking garages, and stripping building surface coatings , not to glamorous or fun.

I also spent the winter doing a lot of Government registrations so I can participate in bids as a prime or sub-contractor and again the focus is the whole GREEN THING.

I'm also picking up a good amount of work in Fire Restoration space... but there Dry Ice blasting is more popular.

But GREEN IS MY FOCUS and it seems to be paying off.

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adshutch

Dale,

I understand other media types can be used with the Farrow System. What is the difference between the "Green Clean" volcanic crystal and 40/70 ground glass? Does the ground glass have impurities that are not enviro friendly? Also can you tell me where you get your supply of Green Clean, I'm thinking they will be the closest one to me here in East TN.

MasterBlaster

The Farrow Green Clean media is Olivine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivine it's a transparent green mineral that's very brittle and fractures at around 45psi

The recycled glass is actually considered a GREENER product, because it come from post consumable products... recycled glass bottles... so it has a smaller carbon footprint.

Recycled glass is a much harder product than Olivine.

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Sand Pot

Green Lightning, a dry blasting media sold for years, is olivine so its likely you guys have used it at some point in your blasting travels. Farrow has it packaged as Green Clean, just more branding flourish. Olivine is more commonly used in the foundry business to make high quality castings. It works very well in the Farrow wet system but it can also be shot dry though it can have small traces of free silica depending on what pit it was mined from.

MasterBlaster

1. Yes it's used in the foundry industry and can be purchased through those channels as well.

2. I know a lot of guys who dry blast with Olivine in the auto restoration space an won't use anything else.

3. Silica in olivine? I'm sure there are traces, but with the farrow the water suppresses it.

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BigdaddyBlaster

Hope that stuff does not become airborn

Have you read the spec sheets on that stuff?
I nwopuld not want to breath that sheet...+
Wear of teeth due to occupational exposure to airborne olivine dust.

Institute of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Oslo, Norway.
OBJECTIVES: To clarify whether high tooth wear of employees in a mining industry that extracts the mineral olivine could be associated with airborne dust exposure in their working environment.
METHOD: The cumulative exposure to airborne mineral dust for the workers in the company was calculated on the basis of their period of employment multiplied by the airborne olivine-dust concentrations, which have been monitored continuously during the past 20 years for all divisions of the company. After invitation, 85% of the employees (n = 191) were examined clinically and their dentitions were photographed and duplicated in plaster casts. Four clinicians, working independently, examined the sets of casts/photographs for tooth wear and ranked these from most to least. Two groups of employees were compared with regard to tooth wear, i.e. the 30% with the highest (case) and the lowest (control) estimated dust exposure levels. Tooth wear in the case and control groups was compared using a non-parametric test based on rankings (Mann-Whitney test).
RESULTS: Tooth wear differed significantly between the workers in the low and the high mineral dust exposure groups (p < 0.001). The differences were also apparent within three age subsets, although statistical significance was reached only in the 34-44 years subset (p = 0.002). Considerable individual variation was noted within the three exposure groups.
CONCLUSION: Workers with high exposure to airborne olivine dust may contract considerable tooth wear.

PMID: 16419435 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Dyer

Sounds like a good place to sell dentures...

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Sand Pot

I'd suppose most of this sheet that we shoot would lead to worn teeth if we were sucking it into our mouths . . . its an abrasive!

MasterBlaster

Funny how you're worried about olivine and teeth wear.... when you really should be worried about silica dust, paint dust and health problem caused by dry blasting?

The Farrow system pretty much suppresses airborne dust with the use of wet media.... so you don't end up with nasty dust floating around the job site, your car and your home.

And we do use respirators and clean suits when we blast... so the nasty stuff doesn't end up in our cars, home and kids.

Just another way to look at it.

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