How many hours a year do you put on your truckmount?

[Mountain View Carpet Care]

Just curious.

 

[Able 1]

700 for me..

 

[FLYERMAN]

200

 

[Chris A]

~1000

 

[nwhmbiz]

600

 

[billyeadon]

During our Strategies class Chuck Violand does a cost analysis to figure pricing. In his model he uses 800 hours.

 

[LeeCory]

Seems to be in the range of 700

 

[Lee Stockwell]

I've been consciously trying to lower machine run time. Still close to 700 this year.

 

[Shane T]

450

 

[orangeforce123]

Between 200 and 700 depending on which van.

 

[West]

500-600 per year

 

[Doug Cox]

I use to do about 1800 with my CDS. Since the new slide in , I have been at around 1200- 1300.

 

[Walt]

1100 or so.

 

[Jim Williams]

I have averaged 800 a year for the last 5 years.

 

[BradFenstermaker]

Not enough, but my average O/O is 600 hrs.

 

[Jim Nelson]

275

 

[joe harper]

Everest 650 hp.............1121 hrs

Prochem 405................836 hrs

Prochem 805................37 "17 days"

Butler..........................sold last year...."miss the old girl"...5500 hrs..

 

[Erik]

1000-1150

 

[rwcarpet]

'bout 500.

 

[Zee]

I think it depends on what truckmount you using- heat ex or propane/diesel burner.

I do make an effort to keep my hours down, by not running the truckmount while vacuuming, setting up hoses, prescrubbing etc..

I know with heat ex models one would be running it more to heat up(right jimmy olas?) He pulles up to a house and the first thing he does he turns on the machine.

I only run my diesel burner truckmount when its being used for cleaning or filling up sprayers.

The other thing I noticed, it gives an impression to my custys that I was quick, by not having to listen to that "loud big machine" out there for too long.

The way I see it I can save sometimes 25-30 minutes on my machine hours on 1 job. It adds up quickly to a couple hundred hours.
With this I used my truckmount for almost exactly 500 hrs since the 1st of january.
My thoughts..

 

[Greenie]

Excellent post Zee.

I was wonderin' if this example would come up, where FREE heat isn't really FREE.

 

[kmdineen]

About 700 hours for me. I pre vacuum, move furniture and pre spray with the Butler off. I only run the truck to rinse.

 

[Zee]

Yup Jeff there is no free heat with heatex models...
The extra gas and the wear and tear of the machine by running a lot of hours, will somewhere cost at least as much as my diesel for every 20-25 hours.
I run about 22 hours burning 5gallons of diesel. The heat is awesome and keeps up with my 20flow.

 

[joe harper]

Gentlemen...

You CAN'T sell me on fuel fired HEAT....

My 1st TM was a 1150 Poweratic...StinKinG KERO... :roll:

Yes the heat was great...BUT...SMELL was unbearable... :!:

Remember ..I am in fla..It is 110 degrees in the trucks ..to start with... :wink:

We run BIG TM'S...Heat is never an issue..AT any flow..!

If we operated in COLD weather... :?: ...I would certainly use fuel fired heat..Seems rational...

NO propane either... :!: don't like riding around with a BoMb...

 

[Loren Egland]

That's why I run an electric truck mount. I don't want no stinking engine exhaust or a gasoline bomb in my truck.

Besides, cleaning performance is the same on all machines, right? :wink:

 

[Out of Character - 0]

This year:
2343hrs on our pro1200
270hrs on our pro2000 broken down part of the year)

 

[woodsey]

Interesting point on fuel fired heat. After going to propane I did nottice I put less time on the machine. As a guess I run about 30 min less a day. Five days a week X 30 min = 150 min or 2 and 1/2 hours a week. If machine depreciation is $8 hour X 2.5 = $20 a week or $1040 a year IF you work 52 weeks. Another way to look at it is 2.5 hrs a week X 52 = 130 hrs a year. If you put 1000 hrs on a machine a year and reduce run time by 130 hrs that is a 13% reduction in wear and tear. I know there are some variables in this but I dont think the "figgers" are to far off. Would like to hear other opinions. Woodsey

 

[Zee]

Mr. Harper I don't really have a smell issue with my truckmount.. I keep hearing about how bad everything smells with a fuel fired one but honestly i don't have an issue with it. i do keep open all my doors and windows when I'm working with it. Except when its raining..which is a few days out of 365 in a year here in SoCal.

I calculated about $280.00 to $300.00 a year on diesel if my machine is running for 500 hours.
In my opinion that's not too much if I save a couple of hundred hours runtime.......

 

[ascrubabove]

Close to 500 hrs, the year ain't over yet

 

[Ron Werner]

I burn propane for engine and heat
no smell.
Its no more a bomb than a gas tank. in a year and half never had any blow up issues I've heard others whine about. They must have done something really weird to get a response from a LG like that.

run about 500 or so hours/year
I use a HF so the truck starts after I've finished vacuuming.