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A customer would like for me to remove green paint from a brick wall that runs across the front of their property. I am not sure what type paint is on the wall but I would think just regular exterior latex. Does anyone have any suggestions on what would strip this the best?

David, if I get a chance I will give you a call. Don't hold me to it though..... I am the coach and I usually have a lot going on. My team is really good, we won the Global World Series in Charleston in July. My guys are 11 and we play in the Majors division which is the highest level. We were also in N.Y. this year for 10 days playing in Cooperstown (awesome)!

Go Braves! David how is the weather in Myrtle? We will be there this weekend at Ripken playing baseball.

Congrats! Awesome!

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Congrats on the new truck Jeff. I also like how you had the guys rinse it down when you pulled up on the job:). My truck is only dirty during hunting season (Oct.-Jan).:D

How are you guys doing your estimates? What I mean is have any of you gone to a small truck for giving estimates or a car? I am looking at getting something more economical for giving estimates and going behind my guys. I also need it to be some what practical. Right now I do all my estimates and checking behind my guys in my diesel truck that sits on 35" tires. After 72,000 miles I'm ready to save a little in fuel cost. So any vehicle is almost instant fuel savings. Volkswagon has a diesel motor for the Jetta that gets 50+ mpg, but I have never owned a car so still unsure about this. Any feedback or ideas are appreciated.

For myself no. My wife has had a few, but not me.

Thats not bad, our diesels get right around that number as well. 20 gallons of diesel @ 4.25 = $85 20 gallons of gas @ 3.49 = $70 $ 15 savings each fillup versus diesel not bad. In my personal diesel I used 1,785 gallons of fuel this past year. 1,785 gal. x 3.89 avg = $6943 diesel cost for year 1,785 gal. x 3.19 avg = $5694 if I had a gas, saving $1250 in gas/year $1250 x 4 vehicles = $5000/year in savings I may slowly convert to gas. Jon can you explain the quote above? My diesels are way more expensive to maintain than a gas burner. Oil changes, oil filters, fuel filters, brake jobs, tires(10 ply), diesel fuel everything I just mentioned cost more than a gas burner

The new Tundra's (5.7) have been out for a while now, so how bout some numbers. What kind of fuel mileage are you guys getting? Not what the onboard computer tells you but the ole pen & paper. Very strong truck truck, I dont own any gas trucks but after riding in my friends I was very surprised at the power.

Good commercial. Michael, wearing the fake glasses for your boy awesome, you outdid the commercial!

Scott, I like it. Now its time to hire some guys and see how long it takes them to tear it up.

Ken, I love your post and I tend to agree with you on most everything. With that being said you would not get $450 for that house in my area. I dont care how good of a salesman you may be, you would not get that house down here. Clean is clean. If you did that house for $450 and the nieghbor got theirs done for $275 and it looked the same as your customer the $275 guy would make $550 next year and never move his trailer. Ken you have to remember that house in my area would only cost about $200k. I am not trying to start a lowball debate or anything like that I just wanted to let others know that demo plays a huge roll in pricing. That house in your area would go for what $400k?

My golfing has slowed down a little, I am coaching a travel baseball team and we practice three days a weak. Deer season (bow) is only a couple months away so the handicap will be going up in a few months....lol

Yes, but when you seen us that night I think we actually had a trailer behind it. The 8 gpm trailer usually stays in town with me

Alan, this is our out of town truck. Great on fuel and I dont have to worry about my guys pulling a trailer. Pro's= To many to list. Con's= Truck breakdown. I have never had a breakdown but this is a diesel and Alan you know as well as me when a diesel goes in the shop for something minor it does take longer than a gas burner to fix. If you only run one truck I wouldn't do it, but if you run multiple trucks you will be fine. I have had this one in the shop a couple of times (03 F-250 6.0) so it is a minor inconvenience but if you have other trucks to pick up the slack its no big deal. This is by far my most efficient rig to date!

Yes, as long as its not in the shop. I have some friends who have had problems with the 08's. Nothing major but a pain to have to leave it at the shop for a day or two.

Try your local canvas shop they can custom make what you need with tie down straps or velcro straps to go around skid frame.

Craig, last year I thought you said Bob was building you a 60" surface cleaner. I remember you saying it was going to be better than the Swabby you wanted to buy. Did the 60" surface cleaner not work out?

5.5 gpm with an x-jet M-5 works great. 8 gpm works even better. The greater your gpm the higher the M-5 will throw your solution. Our 8 will throw solution at least 15 feet higher.

We run 24" ground force with the 4 tip single bar. With our 8 gpm you almost have to run to tiger stripe. If your looking for a surface cleaner try the ground force.

How do you guys run your business? 1- Do you run it from your house? 2- Do you run it from a shop/warehouse? This thread goes with a previous thread I started, with the lack of responses I'm guessing most guys run from the house. P.S. Can someone make this a poll?

Anthony, I have an 05 Dodge with the H.O. Diesel. When it was new I got 12 mpg empty, so I put the Bully Dog system on it and now I get 13 mpg empty. After 47000 miles and a chip I'm still at a crappy 13 mpg. My F 250 Diesel does great 18 mpg with a 65 gallon water tank in the rear along with hot water unit and hose reels (out of town truck). When we pull a trailer unit with it we still get 15 mpg and this is with no chip, so for me in the future I'm going Ford all the way. By the way we just hit 60,000 miles with the Ford.

John T. did you use a chip for better fuel economy on the Dodge. I have an 03 F-250 Diesel that gets great mpg but our 05 Dodge Diesel is terrible on mpg. 13 empty and 12 pulling a trailer.

Maintenance on the NPR was very expensive. Rear end at 118,000 was $3000. Just the pm's for the NPR cost around $350 every 4500 miles. When I looked at Sprinters a few months back everything about them was great. The maintenance is next to nothing, oil changes every 10,000 miles and fuel mileage is around 25 mpg loaded. The cost of the Sprinter was the reason I didn't buy one. If I were driving it daily I would get one, but letting my guys tear up a $37,000 work van would **** me off. My latest work vehicle I decided to go with a Chevy 2500 extended van that cost WAY LESS that they can tear up. If your a one man show buy new and take care of it. If you run multiple crews I have learned to buy used, pay cash for your vehicles and dont worry about them damaging it because its going to happen.