Anyone used/decided not to use these contraptions? They look like they would speed up rinsing at least on larger flat surfaces vs. wanding. Most anything over 24" seem to be made for garden hose hookup, but I’ve seen a few for high pressure up to 39".
I wouldn’t even bother but I have a reasonably large asphalt area to washdown, as well as quoting on some tennis courts and a couple repeat clients with pretty large concrete driveways.
@Racer I’m sure you’ve either proven why they’re ineffective or already use them, any insiight?
I do a fair amount of post construction clean up of parking lots and stuff and I thought the same thing. I got one with 4 nozzles. It worked ok if there was a good grade to the parking lot. But in the areas where it was pretty flat the dirty water just goes right back to where you just washed once you pass it - does that make sense? I haven’t touched it in a few years.
No hypnotist required… I was 50/50 to begin with. It seems like a great idea to rinse and washdown asphalt, but I figured since I had never heard of anyone here using one, it must suck for some reason. I mean, I hear some pretty cockamamie ideas of things being used on here, but never that? It must be really bad…
There’s a reason I have never gone on TikTok…you could tell me it was tiktok.com or tiktok.gov.china and I would probably believe either. I’m good at social media, but I’d rather have someone on the team that is great at social so I never have to go on it, except maybe LinkedIn to make connections. It’s 99% garbage out there, technical advice is no different.
I like that the conversation started, but I am still wondering.
FOr me, just using one 8gpm unit, I only have so much flow to spread across the multiple nozzles of the broom. But say someone like @DJPWS who has 2 10gpm machines, could he tie into a larger broom and make it function like it looks like it should? I don’t know, and I am a curious monkey. Not sure how two systems would work on one apparatus or if it could. Like I said, I’m curious and I would love someone to enlighten me.
On a side note, I have seen people invert those broom for rinsing off the undercarriage of trucks. Road salt and mud. Don’t think it would work on super caked on mud after going on a run.
The reality is it should be a function of GPM and nozzle size to get a good level of pressure…so my guess is the assembly of these suckers keeps the bar from allowing the pressure across all nozzles to stay consistent, and therefore it doesn’t work worth a crap. In theory it’s no different than having an 8 tip SC. If you ran an 8gpm with 2501s in it, it should work, feedback here makes it clear that for whatever reason, it doesn’t.
Telling the guys to use the wand and on to the next job, lol
