Can you contact the supplier and see what they suggest? You can't be the first to deal with this concern.
Otherwise load them on a trailer and find a bumpy road.

 

I’ve been known to reverse it @ a quick pace & dump lumber off of a trailer or off the flatbed several times.



Mike

 

Or you could sub it out and watch from a lawn chair and still make money

Just because you could do it does not mean you should do it

 

Similarly, just because I can do it does not mean that I shouldn’t in fact do it.

I’m not asking for business advice I’m asking about mixing gloop in a plastic container.

 

 

Exactly.

 

The seal coating I’ve done has always been out of a metal trailer tank, with a chain driven paddle stirrer. You could probably do what you‘re thinking, and I’m sure you know this, but you really don’t need a lot of product down at once. It might be hard to control with a forklift, and not put too much down. When you stir, a mud mixer might work. Just something to think about on quantity.

 

All of the guys near me who do seal coating have it in a heated round tank

 

I’ll call the manufacturer thanks guys.

As for dispensing from forklift, idea was to do it just like it’s done from buckets. Meaning, have a guy open the spigot on the bottom of the tote and pour some on the ground.

 

You remind me of my excavator, guy does everything. I had a wood floor in a garage we ripped out to pour a slab. My demo guy can be here next week, What's he charging? I'll do it for that. I'll bring my dump trailer, how much for the dump run, I'll take care of it.

Hydroseed I'll take care of it. Split rail fence, yeah I'll do it. Pavers, retaining walls. Guy is solo and just can't say no to work. Does a great job too, gonna stink when he moves to Florida.

 

Our county, via a contractor, has been putting some sort of tar-like slop onto our asphalt streets to extend their life before resurfacing. It looks like cr@p. Rough, uneven and occasional tire marks.

 

We have been getting our local roads graveled, then oiled.

They dump oil, then dump pea gravel. Then they wait until 75 percent of windshields have at least 2 new chips in them, then come back and pour oil on top.

It is a mess. It only compacts where the tires run.

 

That stuff settles and solids go to the bottom so it has to be stirred. The pro's have tanks with paddles in them to always keep the stuff stirred up while working.
I think this is a necessity if you are going to do very much of it.

Just sealed my Dad's driveway yesterday, stirring the 5gal pails with a drill and paint mixer, real pain in the rear.
It is pretty darned simple, easy work that doesn't require highly skilled labor or too many expensive tools, but it's messy.

 

Thanks Fishindude. This was an awarded project. I threw a number at it knowing it’s not super technical and apparently I was competitive so I might be stirring a lot in the near future.

If I do the job and don’t lose my shirt I will consider getting a tank and putting it on a trailer.

 

This should work for stirring.

Crustbusters – The Septic Tank Agitator

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Or make your own with some steel pipe and a mower blade cut in half.

Power Mixer Pumps Solids From Septic Tanks

Until he created a septic tank power mixer, Val Stockert was never satisfied with the results of pumping septic tanks that had lots of solids. The liquids pumped out, leaving most of the solids behind...

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As far as keeping the ball valve clear, can you keep the spout end tipped up slightly while it sits? Or rig up a fitting to blow air in through the spout to clear clogs?

 

Was fueling up this morning next to a sales rep for a sealcoating equipment distributor. Only ran into him because of the semis blocking the big fuel island. Got his card. He has stuff I can rent and sells the product in bulk. He actually had a crack sealing trailer hitched to his truck and it was a nice unit. Thought that was a fortuitous meeting all considered.

 

This is the way. Sub it out. Make a small percentage and concentrate on your core business.

 

Eat the apple. **** the core.

 

Eat the apple. **** the core.

Knowledge is power.
Eat the apple, **** the Corps

-HM3 Bailey

 

What product are you using for the seal coating? If it's less viscous, you could easily rig up a pump to circulate & bypass the seal coating which'd keep it mixed, but you'd want the bypass line to be on the opposite side as the intake tube to avoid cavitation of your pump and excess air in your mix. If it's more viscous, you'll need a more direct approach and maybe even heat. Some get very thick in the absence of heat. Some incorporate paddles, some heat, some both. Depends upon product.

 

Thanks Troy, I think since I can rent a trailer woth heat and the mixer and all that jazz that’s the route I’ll go. Can’t be looking like a one armed paper hanger out here. My mug’ll be on CT in the paving section with some awful caption.

 

Billerica is still very blue collar. More liquor stores and contractors than the surrounding 5 towns combined! A lot of new apartment complexes and they are finally doing something with the mall. Other than that it's the same for the most part.

 

Oh and the POS vinyl colonial boxes are now going for over a million. Prices are through the roof and the still build the same Billerica box over and over.

 

Yep the northern mass vinyl clad colonial.

 

Don’t just throw this in to keep it mixing

 

They must do a better job here. Because I actually prefer the oiled road better than the road they covered up because it's usually worse than a dirt road for ride comfort. I think when they do ours they oil, gravel, compact/roll, oil and then lay sand over it.

 

I can't think of any public roads that are not paved with asphalt in my neck of the woods.

 

They're doing a ton of rubber chip seal in my neck of Massachusetts. It's a fraction the cost of overlay. With 1/4 the lifespan.

I wonder what could be putting a strain on towns budgets in this state.

 

Some where I am they lay thinned hot tar and gravel over it. Sign says oil but its really tar