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!
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.
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!!!
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.
🔥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!!!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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
Kinda hard to tailgate spread in a single axel huh Brandon ? I owned a single axel dump for 20 years and put a barn door gate on it the first year so I had plenty of reasons why I don't spread stone with it ! Lol....
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
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
Those are "tag axles" they are lowered to the road with airbags to meet the state's axle rating for the GVW of the truck. In essence, they let the truck carry more legally. Normally only down when on the road and loaded. Normally you put them up at the job site as it makes the truck easier to turn.
U do a good job with ur videos nd u do great work . I have a question for u have u every watch tractor time with Tim. If u do he has a problem with drains on his homestead I'm just asking a person who watch u both I was just wondering if u could give him some ideas to help him figure it out how to do the drains. If u would do i would be happy u guys make videos for us to watch nd o love what u both do it helps alot of people with things . Thank you Robert shrawder one of ur nd fan nd watcher of u tube
And you did pretty good for first time I have had rock delivered and the guy has been doing it for a long time he didn't do any better than what you did
Chris was wondering how u like the outo magic in that truck. I just curious about it and does it handle witybloads on it? How does it do with being full and pulling a loaded trailer. Great job on not ever spreading stone I think u did a good job.
We all start somewhere. I don't know what or how the controls on that box works so who is to say they can get it perfect each and everytime. Not me and I did drive rock trucks from that little one that your driving to those ukes down in the pit. It looks easy and in some ways is but not always. I did drive for my dad with a single axle gas powered flatbed dump and some other conglomerations that would make you wonder years later how did I survive that?!! LOL, its just a job and a lot more goes into being a easy or hard job. Off highway trucks get pretty sketchy at times or most times when hauling large rock out to be broken up again or used in fill on the muskeg roads in alaska. Islands are kinda funny as they are all muskeg except the roads and that included the bunkhouse areas. Or it was solid rock and had to be blasted.... they used a dozer to get a rock in the bed of my truck and then it was side heavy and no way to fix so drive with tires lifting on one side all the way.... not a fun moment but overall kinda fun too. On some of the trucks we hauled with, took the drivers door off so could bail out in time an had to more than liked. Lost a few lunch pails over that. I remember one old truck that the load hung up and the driver just got out by the hair of his head and the truck flopped over on its back... we used the big cat and a couple excavators and shoved the whole works into the mud, truck and all. Alaska, no place like it nor will there ever be...... but, but those aborigines in some other countries make that look like kids play with nothing to really work with. Solid tires, solid axles and chains to run each wheel.... really makes you appreciate your day job
Hey Chris great video as always. I've wondering if you or any of your viewers could tell me what type of camera mount you use? I am looking for something to mount my phone on the different pieces of equipment I operate on a golf course and take videos thanks.
@@chopshop6446 Thanks I'll see if I can find it. Yes I am looking for something with a magnetic base.All I have seen so far have a stick on base and magnetic holder making the base somewhat permanent
Charles Marshall the DOT limits them on the amount of weight they can carry. Some of the smaller bridges cant handle that. So it depends on where they have to bring the load to.
Not too bad for a wanna be truck driver. Chris did you notice at the quarry they was doing all the heavy work with the Caterpillars, and all the light work with the Volvos. LOL!!!
Was that in the Pacific Northwest? I ask because we had a road made into a new mine and the lady who made the gravel runs for 3 days for that project left the entire road looking smooth, even, and _nice_ with every run. Best ever.
Southwestern Ohio, about 15 years ago. She backed down our new 900 foot driveway. Set gate chains, and laid it down.. guy came in behind her dumped the clutch, stalled the truck and dumped 20 tons in one spot. There is definitely an art to it..
Might need a ask Logger Wade and Cotton Top 3 about them driver abilities? You did better than me cause Ida probably turn it over and spilt my Dr Pepper.
In the video from the front of the bed you did good on height, I'd imagine. Since you had a pool of gravel always waiting to fall out, I mean. Perhaps the last one you didn't have the right height? I don't have any real idea. I'm just guessing since I've never done it. It's the curse of the critical thinker. It seems having that pool of gravel means an even flow. Edit: A camera up there with a monitor inside might be a good accessory for any truck driver that spreads material.
Heck wow trucks. Wow not me to much stress my bro is a truck dude and I'm like how do you do that kind of thing he says it's not that hard to do. I'm thinking ok let me try stuff like you can do. I get the look like how about next time. Lol.
I found an interesting description of gravel for road building that helps explain some of Chris's challenges. www.ncforestservice.gov/publications/WQ0107/xAppx%205%20-%20Use%20of%20Gravel.pdf
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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!
It takes alot of practice to get it right Chris, you did a good enough job for a first timer. 👍👍🐕🇵🇪❤️
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.
Not if you're a natural most people will need practice
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!!!
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.
Excellent info! Thanks
Ben. It sounds like you have done that about a thousand times. Great advice.
🔥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!!!
Hey man everyone has to start somewhere.. u never know how u are going to do till u try it 👍🏻
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
Yea looks good maybe tighten the chains on the gate a little to fine tune the volume of stone. Job well done as always!
Or floor it like a maniac! lol
Tailgate spreading is how I've always had them do my driveway. The good ones will get it so even, I barely have to touch it up with my tractor.
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.
Not bad for time tailgating. I always found around the second stage of the hoist was the sweet spot
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.
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.
I love pits. Sometimes you find hidden treasures someone tried to hide haha
Love the trunk bed shoot. Keep up the great vids
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.
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.
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.
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.
Get the bed higher...wait till you hear the rock slide before you start moving. ..then open the gate...the second load was good. ..keep it up. .. 😄😀
Yup wait till you hear the stone hit the gate
John needs to take a permanent vacation......Load #2 WAS PERFECT!
I remember my first dump truck . 1974 Chevy. 18 foot tandem dully axel Motor was a 454. 5 and 4 shifter
Yesterday I was a donut maker now I are a truck driver! LOL Excellent job, we`ll keep ya around.
seems you need to close the tailgate a lil tighter to slow them rocks down. we usually go 2" on stone
Imagination with the camera, good job.
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
I think u did a great job tailgating stone for the first time
Hanson quarry sims!! He’s a great loader!
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
I thought you did great but I don’t have a clue on what to do to tailgate 🤷🏼♂️. Looked good to me 👍🏻
Kinda hard to tailgate spread in a single axel huh Brandon ? I owned a single axel dump for 20 years and put a barn door gate on it the first year so I had plenty of reasons why I don't spread stone with it ! Lol....
Tom Del Casale nice! I’ve never even tried with mine
You ought to consider a barn door if you haul any concrete and stumps like I do...once you jam up the gate while trying to dump you'll wish you did !
Tom Del Casale oh trust me I have done that many times and wished I had a barn a door lol
You did a fine job....you're going to be the grader operator and you'll learn how to do it to make it easy on the grader.
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
Not bad for the first attempt. Cheers for sharing
Great job brother
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
Pretty damn good for the first time ever spreading Stone.
I am always amazing at how fast a hydronic ram can lift a big load.
Wow Chris that L250H has a 15 Ton bucket...
Not bad for the first time!
Looks great
hey Chris
what are the two single wheels for in front of the tandems on both sides for ? spares?
Those are "tag axles" they are lowered to the road with airbags to meet the state's axle rating for the GVW of the truck. In essence, they let the truck carry more legally. Normally only down when on the road and loaded. Normally you put them up at the job site as it makes the truck easier to turn.
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Cheers for that they are a strange looking thing.
in Australia we don't have those but we do have Road Trains
Better than the driver that delivered my gravel.
U do a good job with ur videos nd u do great work . I have a question for u have u every watch tractor time with Tim. If u do he has a problem with drains on his homestead I'm just asking a person who watch u both I was just wondering if u could give him some ideas to help him figure it out how to do the drains. If u would do i would be happy u guys make videos for us to watch nd o love what u both do it helps alot of people with things . Thank you Robert shrawder one of ur nd fan nd watcher of u tube
You should contact Andrew Camarata for tips. He does this stuff all the time!
Andrew is nothing compared to this guy!
@@richc6278 apparently you've never watched him then. He tailgates stone all the time
Hi Good Morning from Germany , thanks Chris perfect timing before sleep again :-)
Great video and nice camera angle ! Nice job, thanks for sharing
Good job man
Nice job Chris spreading stone, that big loader first scoop 3/4 of the truck full 👌✌😎
And you did pretty good for first time I have had rock delivered and the guy has been doing it for a long time he didn't do any better than what you did
How many ton of gravel was that total and what was the all out cost?
Great video
Chris was wondering how u like the outo magic in that truck. I just curious about it and does it handle witybloads on it? How does it do with being full and pulling a loaded trailer.
Great job on not ever spreading stone I think u did a good job.
3rd load was dry, first dump was great. That’s grade A to the truck driving standards locally!
It looked like a damn good job to me.
Wish I lived where your at. Would love to drive for you!!!
I was curious where you guys got that dump bed, I like the swing gate feature
OK
We all start somewhere. I don't know what or how the controls on that box works so who is to say they can get it perfect each and everytime. Not me and I did drive rock trucks from that little one that your driving to those ukes down in the pit. It looks easy and in some ways is but not always. I did drive for my dad with a single axle gas powered flatbed dump and some other conglomerations that would make you wonder years later how did I survive that?!! LOL, its just a job and a lot more goes into being a easy or hard job. Off highway trucks get pretty sketchy at times or most times when hauling large rock out to be broken up again or used in fill on the muskeg roads in alaska. Islands are kinda funny as they are all muskeg except the roads and that included the bunkhouse areas. Or it was solid rock and had to be blasted.... they used a dozer to get a rock in the bed of my truck and then it was side heavy and no way to fix so drive with tires lifting on one side all the way.... not a fun moment but overall kinda fun too. On some of the trucks we hauled with, took the drivers door off so could bail out in time an had to more than liked. Lost a few lunch pails over that. I remember one old truck that the load hung up and the driver just got out by the hair of his head and the truck flopped over on its back... we used the big cat and a couple excavators and shoved the whole works into the mud, truck and all. Alaska, no place like it nor will there ever be...... but, but those aborigines in some other countries make that look like kids play with nothing to really work with. Solid tires, solid axles and chains to run each wheel.... really makes you appreciate your day job
Good job driver!!
Ha! Yesterday I cuden't even spell truc driber, today I are one.
Hanson on Capital Blvd. wake forest/raleigh?
The box needs to go up a little higher. Otherwise, pretty good for a rookie.
Hey Chris great video as always. I've wondering if you or any of your viewers could tell me what type of camera mount you use? I am looking for something to mount my phone on the different pieces of equipment I operate on a golf course and take videos thanks.
I think a subscriber sent him some magnetic mounts. I remember it was in an unboxing video right after he got his house finished.
@@chopshop6446 Thanks I'll see if I can find it. Yes I am looking for something with a magnetic base.All I have seen so far have a stick on base and magnetic holder making the base somewhat permanent
I do this in the uk, I wonder if any company’s in the us would give me a green card and a visa to work for them.
Ben P i hope so. I would like to see you get out of there! 😁
UTTERLY FASCINATED WITH THE WT (20 TONS) YOU CARRIED. IN KENTUCKY WE ROUTINELY HAVE 45 TONS IF UR OWNER PAYS POLITICALLY U CAN DO 60
Every single load is different in a way
How much does it cost for a single load of stone?
justin b probably 2.00 + a ton
Scale in loader ??
You have a big truck why don't you get a full load of rocks?
Charles Marshall the DOT limits them on the amount of weight they can carry. Some of the smaller bridges cant handle that. So it depends on where they have to bring the load to.
Enjoyed the video. What is ABC?
Not to bad for 1st time spreading ,but it's much more enjoyable running equipment....much respect Chris
Need to tighten up the chains a link or two and start with your bed just a tad higher......when you get it set right there isn't much grading to do...
Had his gate opened a little to much, Don't stop once your moving.
Wounders why you have 4 axel dumps down south and we only have 3 axel dumps up in NE states
Their weight laws are gay
Not too bad for a wanna be truck driver. Chris did you notice at the quarry they was doing all the heavy work with the Caterpillars, and all the light work with the Volvos. LOL!!!
Pretty good job for your first time but if you can only haul 20 tons why have the quad axs under there
our side roads only allow 6.5 tons per axle
We can only go 20 tons with a quint
Best tailgater I've seen was a lady in her mid 30's.
Was that in the Pacific Northwest? I ask because we had a road made into a new mine and the lady who made the gravel runs for 3 days for that project left the entire road looking smooth, even, and _nice_ with every run. Best ever.
Her or what she did?
Southwestern Ohio, about 15 years ago. She backed down our new 900 foot driveway. Set gate chains, and laid it down.. guy came in behind her dumped the clutch, stalled the truck and dumped 20 tons in one spot. There is definitely an art to it..
@@schlepd911 Oh no..... thanks for sharing
Looks damn Fine To Me💪👍
Might need a ask Logger Wade and Cotton Top 3 about them driver abilities? You did better than me cause Ida probably turn it over and spilt my Dr Pepper.
Like a Boss!
Nice. It's not easy as it looks
That looks like Hanson Quarry on #1
Yep. Hanson Aggregates.
@@throngcleaver I loaded quite a bit of over burden out of there when I was working with Fowler Contracting ...
Loader hand is pretty slow
I guess he has to obsess on that 20 ton limit. It will come back on the quarry if Chris got a ticket.
@@TrevorDennis100 they wont let you scale out if your over so it wont come back on the pit
In the video from the front of the bed you did good on height, I'd imagine. Since you had a pool of gravel always waiting to fall out, I mean. Perhaps the last one you didn't have the right height? I don't have any real idea. I'm just guessing since I've never done it. It's the curse of the critical thinker. It seems having that pool of gravel means an even flow.
Edit: A camera up there with a monitor inside might be a good accessory for any truck driver that spreads material.
What does ABC stand for? Not a term we use up here.
Got to raise the bed up higher till u hear it hit the gate then trip the gate and go like hell plus your chains look to loose
Not bad for a rooky.
Nice!!!
Shit for the first time doing it couldn't have asked for much better.
Do you ever go to the quarry by umstaed state park ?? I think its wake stone quarry
David Buchanan other end is Martin Marietta
Heck wow trucks. Wow not me to much stress my bro is a truck dude and I'm like how do you do that kind of thing he says it's not that hard to do. I'm thinking ok let me try stuff like you can do. I get the look like how about next time. Lol.
but can you spread a 18 wheel end-dump 🤔
carlos perez give him a break, boy’s just gettin’ started!
I need some stone on my driveway
That definitely was not the first time you spread a load of Stone.
That loader is tiny... I run a 982M
Camarata will learn ya.....
Look out John! That'll teach you to take time off! Come back and you're out of a job!
Right on Papaw!
If you look up soybean farmer he has a video where he gotta load of rock there you can see the pit in it
I found an interesting description of gravel for road building that helps explain some of Chris's challenges.
www.ncforestservice.gov/publications/WQ0107/xAppx%205%20-%20Use%20of%20Gravel.pdf
Just remember, no matter what anyone tells you, you CAN'T tailgate spread shale.
Dam Commercials!
what a abomination, a automatic dump truck;😀