BIG water trailer?

[Taylortractornut]

Baffles are a must, atleast one anyway. I had an unbafled truck on one job and it broked the bed mounts and almost wrecked the cab. The next day it rolled over in a turn. THey arent too bad full its when it gets about half empty. MY brothers truck is all home built from scavenged parts. The tank was a fuel tanker like a oil company truck. He cut the boxes of it. Then had it mounted on his truck and I gave him an old pto pump off a 1 ton fire truck. Then he plumbed it all with 3 and 4 inch PVC pipe. He has a spray head on each corner and gravity bar on the back.


The spray heads are super simple and effective. He welded a flat cap on top of section of 3 or 4 inch exhaust tubing that was slotted on one partway up. Then he had a horizontal notch in the top under the flat cap. This is held on with muffler Ubolts. He can adjust it with a more open slot for a bigger higher volume heavy spray. Adjust it down to 1/4 inch slot for a longer lighter spray. I cant get a few pics in the next few days of of the heads.

Its a super handy thing to have around the place. Watering roads before grading, fire fighting, garden and tree watering.

 

[Duffster]

Baffles are a must, .

Milk trucks are unbaffled. They manage to keep them upright.

 

[777777]

Around here there is a lot of water haulage for potable water.

Best choice is always a used milk truck as it is stainless. Lotta competition to find used 1's.

Have also seen just the large poly barrels on the back of trucks that deliver water. Seem to work ok.

Good luck on the project.

 

[TractorRob]

Milk trucks are unbaffled. They manage to keep them upright.

I had never heard that before and was curious as to why milk trucks don't have baffles, so I did a google search on "milk truck baffles." Apparently they don't have baffles because it makes them harder to clean. I also noticed a lot of information on how milk trucks and other non-baffled trucks are more likely to be involved in roll-over accidents and how they are harder to drive than a baffled truck, even for commercial drivers.

 

[Duffster]

I had never heard that before and was curious as to why milk trucks don't have baffles, so I did a google search on "milk truck baffles." Apparently they don't have baffles because it makes them harder to clean. I also noticed a lot of information on how milk trucks and other non-baffled trucks are more likely to be involved in roll-over accidents and how they are harder to drive than a baffled truck, even for commercial drivers.

They are also driven on poorer roads than most trucks and in inclimate weather.

 

[captaincrab55]

I had never heard that before and was curious as to why milk trucks don't have baffles, so I did a google search on "milk truck baffles." Apparently they don't have baffles because it makes them harder to clean. I also noticed a lot of information on how milk trucks and other non-baffled trucks are more likely to be involved in roll-over accidents and how they are harder to drive than a baffled truck, even for commercial drivers.

Sounds like a Good Reason to steer clear of milk trucks... I have a Tanker Endorsement on my CDL ans I too wasn't aware that milk trucks didn't require baffled tanks...

 

[BHD]

I would suggest looking into an Ag sprayer, (used), some of the larger units are tanks of 1000 to 2000 gallons, and then what is know around our parts as a nurse tank, the tractor and the sprayer is basically stays where you need it and then the nurse "tank" truck does the running to keep the sprayer suppled, many around here use a flat bed with plastic tanks on it, some times up to about 4000 gallons some times more,
690 High Clearance Sprayer

(I would think you would be able to find one reasonable as you do not need a 100+ foot boom, and a lot of the features that one wants for field spraying,

the nice thing of this set up is water only is in the nurse tank, so more than one use on it, (no contamination in the tanks), the tractor is multi use, and the flat bed can be used for a number of things by unloading the tanks, and the flat bed is used to carry the "chemicals" as well, most just use a transfer pump to move the water, some of them tie all the tanks to gether to one pump,

some use semi tractors and low boy type trailers and some of the smaller farmers use, goose neck trailers and just there pickups,

or just get a road construction sprayer,
Road Construction Wetdown

 

[CharlieS]

Milk trucks are unbaffled. They manage to keep them upright.

This is true, but its more than milk trucks. All edible products tanks are unbaffled. Sanitation is the issue.

 

[TractorRob]

They are also driven on poorer roads than most trucks and in inclimate weather.

Doesn't change the fact that an unbaffled tanker is inherently less safe than a baffled tanker.

 

[Duffster]

This is true, but its more than milk trucks. All edible products tanks are unbaffled. Sanitation is the issue.

Very true.