Jon Radder said:Bart Salmons said:YUP. You should see the front-end loader at this transfer plant. It fills the average dump truck in one scoop. Long dump trailers in 3. Probably a 4-5 ton scoop depending on material.
HAlf ton is only the contents of the average front end loader's bucket.....sounds a lot heavier than it actually looks.....The bagged goods I used to buy were about 50 lbs. and only .5 cubic feet. I only expect to cover two-three inches or so of the trailer floor. Last year I used about 10 bags. If I get 800 lbs. that will equate to 16 bags - plenty for future expansion.
Now if I were TOC, I’d vacuum up the old, re-set the track on the sub-ballast, then clean and replace the old. A great economical plan if you have the time, or the work crews to do it.
JR
My tractor bucket is a “yard” and that’s about 1700 lbs of dirt or 2300 lbs of crushed limestone or wet sand. The Front end loader (CAT 955) I’ve been renting has a 3.5 yard bucket on it so… be careful with the “just load it on the trailer…or in the truck bed!” at the quarry.
Mark