[LadyNorthStar]

Ahh yes dis is true. Never had reason to dump anywhere else though.
Althoughhhhh, some of the tippers are portable. Where they dump here on this end they move em around to suit.
I guess it seems odd to you maybe because it isn't a big thing there.
Here.... you can't drive 5 miles without passing one of these trucks that use tippers to unload. Its a huge thing so its not like anyone is limited because its just the way it is.

[Part Time Dweller]

Those tippers are what they use at the landfills around here to dump the garbage transfer trailers.

The Jays potato chip plant also uses one to dump semi loads of taters into the plant.

[LadyNorthStar]

Originally Posted by Part Time Dweller

Those tippers are what they use at the landfills around here to dump the garbage transfer trailers.

Yupper, the trailers I showed are actually garbage trailers. We haul chips down and garbage back. The tippers at the dump up here are the portable ones they can move around.
The bummer thing is those trailers aren't 'flow through' so we have to split to dump. They just need to be stronger as they get loaded by a compactor.

[nrvsreck]

I've seen those things at the paper mill plants in Louisiana. Always made me wonder what kind of damage that does to the engine of the truck and how much of a mess it makes in the cab of the truck. Lots of coffee spills, I'm thinking... :lol:

At least with an end dump you can dump anywhere. And I really mean anywhere.

[LadyNorthStar]

We have some end dump trains too, and some 53' walking floors, but they are not used for chips. The main business is chips though and no need to ever dump them somewhere without a tipper, just wouldn't ever be an issue.

They don't want chips being brought into a site on a truck driving in. Debris can destroy loads. One ball point pen can ruin $100,000 worth of wood chips. So, no truck leaks, no dirty tires. This stuff is dumped into a hopper, conveyored out to a blower that blows the chips into a pile. Then a CAT that is only used for moving chips and is set up so no leaks can hit the ground, moves em around.

And yes, you learn real fast to make sure you have nothing spillable in the cab. :lol:

[Mad Fatboy]

I hauled fuel oil to a lot of paper plants in the SE and most of them had the full truck lifts.
However at the Westvaco plant in Charleston, SC they also had a train car rotator that turned the cars completely upside down to dump the chips out.

Most of the plants now only accept chips whereas back in the 60's they all did the chipping onsite.

Mad Fatboy

[mike3fan]

I've hauled wood chips like that before,the guy has my truck and trailer almost straight up and down shaking it to get all the chips out and says to me "don't worry only lost 2 trucks so far",great ahole,just get my damn truck down! the icc bars that rest on the back break and the truck and trailer falls off the side of the ramp pretty damn scary.