BIG water trailer?

[crazyal]

The truck in my Avatar is an old fire truck (hose truck). I bought it from a local town garage. They gutted the back and installed a 2500 gallon polly tank to do exactly what you're looking to do for dust control on the dirt town roads. After one season they decided it was cheaper to get a trailer and mount the polly tank on it. The cost of gas, maintenance, registration, and insurance just made it cheaper to use a trailer. Granted that International is a large gas engine and gets as low as 2 MPG. The cloride rusted all the steel and aluminum
in the back of the truck, nasty stuff.

I thought I read you had a dump truck, is it a mason dump or something larger? A 1 ton may be able to pull a trailer with 2000 gallons of water but we're talking in the range of 10 tons. I know I would feel safer with something larger. Don't worry about baffles. You are going to fill that tank full, drive to the section of road you want to do and then slowly drive while watering until empty. At what point would you have to worry about water sloshing around?

 

[tessiers]

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.

The reason I was always told was because the truck would be full of butter by the time it got to the dairy. They are not baffled but every one I ever saw had 2 or 3 seperate compartments

The other thing is the liquid manure spreaders are heavy, it takes a "big" tractor to handle 3000 gallons, I wouldn't want to haul it behind a truck, trucks depend a lot on the toung weight to make them handle better. In most manure spreading operations where manure is hauled long distances (5+ miles) the manure is hauled with tank trucks.

 

[flyingcow]

The reason I was always told was because the truck would be full of butter by the time it got to the dairy. They are not baffled but every one I ever saw had 2 or 3 seperate compartments

The other thing is the liquid manure spreaders are heavy, it takes a "big" tractor to handle 3000 gallons, I wouldn't want to haul it behind a truck, trucks depend a lot on the toung weight to make them handle better. In most manure spreading operations where manure is hauled long distances (5+ miles) the manure is hauled with tank trucks.

The only reason for open tanks with milk trucks is because of was because of washing procedures. Spray balls have to put into tanks to wash. Or tankers have them already inside of tankers, but it's all about the cleaning/washing. Trust me..you can't make butter sloshing/driving around.

The OP has alot of calcium to spread....S/S tanker is the only way to go. Big trailers to do it. 34 miles is a long ways to go. Good luck. Trailer truck is the better way to go. My 2 cents