You did very good for your first time! Raise the box til you feel the material shift, then roll forward and trip the latch and watch your spread! The guy loading is very gentle, hardly shook the truck! Smooth and even!
First tip : raise the box till you hear the stone shift if you have the the window down you can hear it slide and hit the gate start the truck moving before popping the gate for a smooth start to the spread. second: on the last load did it feel like the truck was surging if so you had the box too high cause the stone to get stuck at the gate then breaking free leaving a pile then a thin spot and repeating till the gate isn't over loaded.
watching to learn again, I did this a bunch 30 is years ago with a friends dump truck, a 1963 Ford with 12 foot bed, now wanting one of my own, but not done this in so long trying to get reacquainted.
Andrews old school, he doesn't mess about just gets the job done with the tools that work and doesn't call out repair crews to fix things that need attention from the AvE Thumb Detector !
Always watch out for power lines and tree limbs . Never let a customer talk you into doing anything unsafe. Be very aware of your lean. Mine flipped over the other day and it was a flat grade. We had had a lot of rain, ground was soft on right side of driveway. Flipped so fast I didn't have time to think. Almost got fired, whew. Great job 1st time. My first, SEVERAL, I was none to proud of. Again, GREAT JOB, Driver!!!
Nice job " truck driver". !! Gotta love Timmy and his quick witted sarcasm ! Lol. But seriously Chris...you did a fine job for a first timer !! Tailgate spreading ain't easy especially if you don't have the right kind of PTO in the truck and the automatic transmission makes it easier ....
that loader could fill that truck in one scoop if the material is heavy enough. our 220H can do over 16 metric tonnes. two scoops and i have a load on my en dump tri axle semi
Bigrig18, listen for load shift then go, if spreading thin or cant raise bed high a little burp of the throttle will shift load to keep flow going. Already better than a few guys I ran with. Next lesson "backing over grade stakes"
man, i miss working in a sand pit like this. loading trucks, feeding the crushers, doing repair work on the machinery, and driving about in an L180g, L220h, cat 980h or whatever i'd be assigned to that day. was a fun job.
As a driver that does this on a regular basis i can say you did a good job a general rule of thumb is about the second ram little more or till you feel the load shift but not to much or youll lock the gate if you get to much weight on it
Nice job, crushed limestone is one of the easiest materials to spread, I don't mean that in a bad way, regular road gravel in michigan is sticky and wants to plug up in the tailgate. I like how you backed over your first spread and then started moving forward to tie onto the first spread. I spent 30 years driving and spreading with gravel trains in Michigan, two trailers one truck doing what you did. Spread the pup, back up and spread the lead over the tongue while still hooked up. You do a great job with your videos.
At 4:30, "I've never spread stone before so . . . " Maybe not with a dump truck but a couple of years ago you did a masterful stone/gravel spreading job on a parking area with the skid steer. It was artistry.
Just lift the bed until you feel the load slightly shift and hit your tailgate that's when you know that you're high enough. Good job for your first time! You've been around them enough to get the concept, just need to hone in on your fine skills.
The entire process is very similar to when my wife backs up to the dining chair I have pulled out and am holding as my wife starts to slowly ease into her chair. Her hamstring muscles work smoothly until 65% to 70% of butt weight physics takes control and the remaining 30% -35% of motion increases and becomes a free fall to an abrupt stop
🔥Those were great spreads for anyone...experienced or not. I raise the bed until I hear the load slide back against the tailgate...then raise it about one more foot. About 40 feet along I raise the bed the rest of the way up to keep it consistent. Lay with it Chris!!!
I find it is usually best to have the truck moving and the dump up a good ways, so when you get to the area you want to drop it over, it comes out smooth. From the looks of that drive, they need it on thick. I've seen some bad first times. This was fine.
I would have tightened up the chain a little, but you have a grader on sight, so you're in good shape. Tip: if you don't want or can't have the bed up higher, remember that you can always stab the throttle to start the material sliding towards the gate. Otherwise, not a bad job for your first 3 times. Might make you a driver yet, Chris.
I always raised the bed, until you feel the rock shift and hit the tailgate. Then roll forward, with the lift going up. And did a many loads backing up. When doing a driveway, that I had to start in the main road. And back through trees. Works great after you do it a time or 1000. One like that big Cat was what loaded me Thursday. Don't take long with those to get a load.
Seeing that bed shot that loader operator is first class ! Pille is even aqnd in the middle which makes the ride and the dump easy ! The driver ? Well he needs more seasoning ! [ grin] Great video Thanks for sharing ! Not everyone would reveal they don't ' know it all ' !
Each truck has its own sweet spot. I had a 1972 Mack with a scissor lift and I had a benchmark on the lift for when to put the truck in gear and open the tailgate. I don't know what trucks are like these days but the Mack didn't have live hydraulics. You had to have the clutch out for the PTO to work and raise the box. Once the box was in position you had to put it in whatever gear you wanted depending on how thick you wanted the rock to spread. Then you'd ease the clutch out and when the truck started moving flip the switch for the tailgate. About then you'd better have the lever pulled to raise the box too.
Get box in air a little more and you’ll have it! I first learned how to spread stone with a rope I had to pull to trip tailgate. You did great I’ve seen seasoned truck drivers leave me piles two feet high!
Just a word of advice load the tailgate and bring your bed back down to the top on your cab that way you weight is lower and you'll keep a better flow without raising the bed to high but now bad tho for the first time doing it
Good job for your first time, there's only one way to learn. I was taught lift the bed till you hear it falling against the tailgate, then pop gate and take off.
Dont feel bad. Been driving a dump for about 10 yrs now... Havent gated a thing, So yes I too am a bit nervous too if asked. This video is almost 2 yrs old Bet you've gotten better. For me asking questions how to do it or watch videos such as this DOES help.
Don't know why so many drivers trip then go,in that situation back past your start point,hoist to start height,right gear,right chain setting,up to speed then trip just before end of last spread,time it,constant revs/speed= nice even thickness and don't be in to much of a hurry putting up ya hoist. Exactly the same truck and trailer spreading,hoists up,speed,chain setting,trip ya trailer,count-time it,trip ya truck,hoists not up to quickly,watch everything around you, everything that's happening, go again!
Use to l couldn't spell truck driver and now l are one! Jack of all trades and purty much master of all too! Don't see that very often. Good job! Keep diggin😎
Take the bed up til you hear the rock slide then lower it alittle then get rolling pop the gate and watch your rear Conners. Take the bed up and at the end band the once to clear the floor of the truck bed. How I do it and been in a dumptruck for 20 years but I do the same with a back dump trailer but slower they can flip over on there side easy. Good video.
Neat video. I’ve bought a lot of gravel but never saw it from that aspect. Cool angle showing from inside the bed. The work you do is one of my two dream jobs.
Truck driver no house wife maybe just kidding you did good the nice thing about it is you are the guy on the grader that will make the driver look good have a great day be safe.
Pretty dang good job spreading stone out of the dump bed. Donit more and you'll get better at it. Love the videos as always. Always looking forward to the next video man.
just want to give you a tip: you should lift the box higher until gravel hits the inside of the tailgate. than open the tailgate locks and hit the gas pedal.....make sure you are in 2nd or 3rd low. depending on how tight/loose the chains are
Nice job! I run a dump truck every day and only spread stone a couple times a year. That's about as good as I can do. Alot of the time it's trying to spread recycled class 5 though and it clumps and sticks together pretty bad if it's damp at all.
You did great Chris! That stone with the Fine mixed in is a pain to haul let alone gate. It's too freaking heavy and it likes to clump up and plug your gate blocking your flow. Wait till you get a load of 57's that flows out your gate so even it'll look like you've been doing it all your life! Yeah, you did real good for a first timer, Especially with the material you were hauling!
Pretty good job for your first time spreading stone . If that’s the quarry I’m thinking about in K town I been to that abc pike a few times over the years
There’s a couple of drivers in my area of BC who can spread it so nice that you don’t need a dozer or a grader to spread it. It can be packed right away
Raise the box higher to break loose the load and stack it against the gate and be at speed before you trip the gate, then watch the Rock flowing out and raise the box as you go.
We called that stone ( with fines in it, grade 8 ) I’ve hauled 1000s of loads . As far as spread dumping goes for the most part , as long as you don’t leave a huge pile where you start off at and you put it down fairly close well , that’s good. Go get another load. Man, times have changed, I never saw a tire washer in a gravel pit. Fancy .
The best way is to raise your bed all the way first then lower it ta about the 3\4of the distance and make sure that your break is off and then have your tailgate 1\2 way of the last spread
It's funny what they call rock in different parts of the country. Where I'm at the rock you got put on is called cm6 and that loader is alot nicer of a guy than ours.
I've seen first time dump drivers, they usually don't pay attention to anything up high like tree limbs and power wires and even overhanging Eve's and such. Usually the first couple loads they didn't make a damn dime and it cost them. Lol. Driver you were ok I didn't see any wires or tree limbs hanging from the bed when you were done. The Rock on the ground can be moved, that should always be the second concern.
