We've slowly (see: reluctantly) gotten into reinforcing pads with fly ash for ag producers in our area. It's been a learning process that has some how managed to turn out for us. Basically we get ~25 ton and disk it in to a 3000sqft area and dump a shitload of water in it, disk/blade/disk/water until it slowly hardens. All of our pads (4 so far) have turned out fantastic.
The material is brought in with grain hoppers and I tell ya it's just a fantastic joyful process that leaves everyone in a great mood at the end of the day.
We picked up another couple big ones about a week ago, (300x600) and I'm starting to think it may be worthwhile to improve our process. We aren't going to buy a conventional pulvamixer. That's simply not in the budget. What I would like to do is spend a little bit of nothing and really get a lot for nothing (ha). I started looking at 3point mounted pulvamixers, specifically these shown here
https://www.iowafarmequipment.com/fae-tractor-pto-soil-stabilizers.html
I think the only way making this move improves our process is if we get one that has the capability to inject water as it's mixing, which from my brief conversation with the salesman just isn't in the budget. I'm also afraid the dust from the mixing will be so bad without the water injection that it simply wouldn't be an improvement for us at all.
Just was wondering if any highway guys here familiar with the **** had any feedback on the 3 point mounted machines or if we should just stick with what we're doing.
The material is brought in with grain hoppers and I tell ya it's just a fantastic joyful process that leaves everyone in a great mood at the end of the day.
We picked up another couple big ones about a week ago, (300x600) and I'm starting to think it may be worthwhile to improve our process. We aren't going to buy a conventional pulvamixer. That's simply not in the budget. What I would like to do is spend a little bit of nothing and really get a lot for nothing (ha). I started looking at 3point mounted pulvamixers, specifically these shown here
https://www.iowafarmequipment.com/fae-tractor-pto-soil-stabilizers.html
I think the only way making this move improves our process is if we get one that has the capability to inject water as it's mixing, which from my brief conversation with the salesman just isn't in the budget. I'm also afraid the dust from the mixing will be so bad without the water injection that it simply wouldn't be an improvement for us at all.
Just was wondering if any highway guys here familiar with the **** had any feedback on the 3 point mounted machines or if we should just stick with what we're doing.