Picked up my new truck, upgraded to 8gpm from 5.5 and the build begins. Debating where to run my hoses along the bed rail or stacked by the tailgate
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All I build is pickup trucks now.
Plenty of room for two 8 gpms.
I mount two reels on the side and one in the rear.
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U gonna get the bed sprayed?
Nice looking truck. Love the long bed.
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Yes that’s sure a nice looking truck. Congrats on the upgrade.
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Yea I have to look into the spray or a liner, any recommendations?
If you spray, there’s really only one option. Line-X is the best on the market hands down. PRICEY though.
Dont get a drop in, they are good for hauling materials/construction type stuff because they offer layer of protection. Dealing with chems 
What he said.
Reels on rear
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Will be shifting the reels to the rear. How big of a water tank would I need if I wanted to run the 8gpm and 5.5 ? Don’t know if I will this year but maybe next
We run two 8 gpms off a 100 gallon buffer.
Alot will disagree, but it works well for us.
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Do you run off a hydrant @KMP ? Just trying to figure that out. I’d love to run 2 8gpm’s as well to. But the water supply around here is 6gpm and under.
Our commercial work always has high flow whether its hydrants or irrigation.
No issues there whatsoever.
Most of our residential has good flow, but we start every job with a full tank.
Two of my guys on one house is a 30 min job tops.
We dont spend alot of time on the trigger.
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I’m only doing residential for now, I’m getting kind of sick of the batch mixing. Any way that proportioner setup can work for down-streaming? Or any other suggestions to eliminate this. Thanks for your input everyone
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I like them. I cleaned a metal roof last week and took the orfice out and the mix was plenty strong enough
I like the plastic liner better for two reasons- 1) the pressure washing skid (home made) is easier to move onto the tailgate so I can pick it up with my jetlift to remove from the truck. My f150 I have now has a spray in liner and its hard to slid my skid. 2) with the spray in liner the seams in the truck bed is not sealed so when I have a leak from a hose or accidently spill bleach the bleach will run down into the seams, down the frame and leak to the ground.(rust eventually) My last truck had a plastic liner (no seams) so if bleached was spilled I would just wash it out the tailgate and rinse the truck and bumper real good.
Nice pickup man
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I’m running two 8’s. As long as I arrive with a full tank (275gal) I very rarely have problems. We did 25k of flatwork today with one 5/8 hose bypassed the reel. This was an exception. Most other flatwork jobs I run two supply line straight into the tank. I think this is totally dependent on your city water pressure. Washing houses I never have a problem unless the customer is washing dishes or clothes.
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i know this was way back but we are in the middle of building a pickup now and we are looking for some ideas! Do you have any pics available?
