One Tough Pressure

Make sure the trailer will handle the load you will carry and then some. Leave room for expansion of equipment. A water tank and reels would make life easier. Make sure that whatever you get can be towed safely with your vehicle.

Aside from prices varying from place to place, you did not give enough info for even someone in your area to help. What size of an area is the garage? Is it greasy or just general soil? Is it painted, or do they want to paint it when you are done? Many variables that need to be known before anyone can give you accurate help.

A dirty water filter will starve a machine. Is yours clean?

Anyone using a KZ1 unloader. If so how long have you had it, how many hours have you used it and how well has it held up and not needed replacement. While I like how the K7 operates, I do not like the premature failure and having to replace 3 within a year. I just switched to a pressure type and I hate it already.

That's where the newest ZK1 and my massive three pound inline filter came from. Low psi and the bypassing of water to the tank.

No, today it is a whip hose, I hope the unloader lasts a little longer. I just happen to see the story on those pics a day or two ago, so I got lucky. Just imagine going in for a little swim and whammo, your gone. Sucks to be a deer.

1.. My wife and I divorced over religious differences. She thought she was God and I didn't. 2.. I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it. 3.. I Work Hard Because Millions On Welfare Depend on Me! 4.. Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them. 5.. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke. 6.. Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive. 7.. You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me 8.. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. 9.. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe. 10.. I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are missing. 11.. Out of my mind. Back in five minutes. 12. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning medicine. 13.. God must love stupid people; He made so many. 14.. The gene pool could use a little chlorine. 15.. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps. 16.. Ever stop to think, and forget to start again? 17.. Being "over the hill" is much better than being under it! 18.. Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew up. 19.. Procrastinate Now! 20.. I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That? 21.. A hangover is the wrath of grapes. 22.. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance 23.. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere! 24..They call it PMS because MadCow Disease was already taken. 25..He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead. 26..A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory. 27..Ham and eggs. A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig. 28.. The trouble with life is there's no background music. 29.. The original point and click interface was a Smith and Wesson. 30.. I smile! because I don't know what the hell is going on. Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. Will Rogers

Nice try, but that is a South Carolina Picture.

That is one version of a hydrant meter, note the spanner wrench and roll of fire hose nearby.

Recycled water is my best answer to early failure. I am sure it has some effect, but each one that I have taken apart looks fine on the inside. Does anyone know if excessive scaling of the coil can put enough back pressure on the unloader to cause early failure?

Mine is in Germany and only came over here once to visit. The wife and her have not spoken in 2+ years, so I think I am safe.

Anyone using the high pressure inline filters that are made for 3/8" lines? I am not referring to the smaller versions that go on surface cleaners and turbo's. Since I am going thru unloaders like crazy, I am going to put this"Boss Hawg" filter after the pump and before the unloader. It will have a tee with a pop off valve just in case it gets full between my checking it.

I do filter at the pump feed with a fairly fine mesh. I also have only plastic and brass in my plumbing lines. Not sure why I am killing unloaders so fast, but it is killing my pocket.

I have a new name, Unloader Killer. My almost new pressure unloader took a dump and I am the new owner of the above mentioned ZK1. So far so good, it is only a week or so old, so it better last for a while. I am not sure why I have gone thru so many so fast, but it gets really old and really expensive when you have to change them all the time. I use to reuse my water all the time, but now only do so when there is no sanitary sewer.

Sodium Hydroxide, as in the HD80 will make even the coldest water heat up when mixed. A belt drive machine will do a better job of sucking water, since the pump is spinning at a lower rpm. Direct drives do better when they are pressure fed.

Subject: What would you do? Subject: What would you do? What would you do? You make the choice! Don't look for a punch line; there isn't one. Read it anyway. At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: "When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?" The audience was stilled by the query. The father continued. "I believe, that when a child like Shay comes into to the world an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes, in the way other people treat that child." Then he told the following story: Shay and his father ha d walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, "Do you think they'll let me play?" Shay's father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it w ould give him a much-needed sense of belonging. Shay's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and, getting none, he took matters into his own hands and said, "We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning." In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the outfield. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again.Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat. At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible 'cause Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball. However , as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least be able to make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game. Instead, the pitcher took the ball and turned and threw the ball on a high arc to right field, far beyond the reach of the first baseman. Everyone started yelling, "Shay, run to first! Run to first!" Never in his life had Shay ever made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled. Everyone yelled, "Run to second, run to second!" By the time Shay rounded first base, the right fielder had the ball. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions and intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head. Shay ran toward second base as the runners ahead of him deliriously circled the bases toward home Shay reached second base, the opposing shortstop ran to him, turned him in the direction of third base, and shouted, "Run to third!" As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams were screaming, "Shay, run home!" Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the "grand slam" and won the game for his team. "That day," said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, "the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world." AND, NOW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY: We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people think twice about sharing. The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces. If you're thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people on your address list that aren't the "appropriate" ones to receive this type of message. Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make a difference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the "natural order of things." So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up that opportunity, and leave the world a little bit colder in the process? You now have two choices: 1. Delete 2. Forward

Echos are good when they get missed the first time.

The Boss was in quandary. He had to fire somebody. He had it narrowed down to one of two people, Debra or Jack. It was an impossible decision, they were both super workers. Rather than flip a coin, he decided he would fire the first one who used the water cooler the next morning. Debra came in the next morning with a horrible hang-over after partying all night. She went to the cooler to take an aspirin. The Boss approached herand said: " Debra, I've never done this before, but I have to lay you or Jack off." "Could you jack off?" she says. "I feel like crap."

He's alive!! Howdy Dave.

Of course every place has it's own twist, but I can usually get about 6000 an hour with the surface cleaner and then depending on what I was washing and the pitch add in the rinse time. I almost always blow the area first and prespray as well. F-18 from Pressure tek kickks some major butt. Well, now you mention the machine size.

Interesting info, I will have to check into this on our hydrants. How about just dropping your line in the pool, and excluding the sump pump.

What drains do you speak of and why would it matter if the hydrant is all the way open or not? I use a hydrant all the time and only turn on as much as I need. Meters vary from small to large, but I have never seen one as large as you describe. Just add a hot box and you gor a full size skid.

You must have some mighty big driveways out there, as 300 gallons for me would be one hour of washing. To use that just for a rinse seems crazy. I can use one 230 gallon tank to do 3000 square feet. Surface cleaner first, then back to rinse and get the gum.

I took it to mean $3.50 per 1000 gallons

I always rinse after using a surface cleaner. Some spots are more stubborn than others and you will need to go after them with the wand as well. Gum is a prime example. Also you will have places that the surface cleaner can not reach and you will use the wand. Kond of like a mower and a trimmer, they each have their use and go hand in hand.