Wheel Nut:
If anyone saw the news today with the inflatable that exploded, they work on a couple of pound of pressure from an electric fan.I imagine they will soon be banned
We never had a tanker explode but had a couple that imploded, sucked in! 
Pete.
windrush:
Wheel Nut:
If anyone saw the news today with the inflatable that exploded, they work on a couple of pound of pressure from an electric fan.I imagine they will soon be banned
We never had a tanker explode but had a couple that imploded, sucked in!
Pete.
We had a driver on the sugar contract, who had it hot washed internally, then a cold livery wash and he didnt open any vent valves, whoosh as it sucked itself in, the driver connected up the blower and blew the tank back out!
Amazingly it ran for years with ripples along the top of it.
CRW had a belly tanker explode many years ago, blew the portakabin windows to pieces.
Trickydick:
windrush:
Wheel Nut:
If anyone saw the news today with the inflatable that exploded, they work on a couple of pound of pressure from an electric fan.I imagine they will soon be banned
We never had a tanker explode but had a couple that imploded, sucked in!
Pete.
We had a driver on the sugar contract, who had it hot washed internally, then a cold livery wash and he didnt open any vent valves, whoosh as it sucked itself in, the driver connected up the blower and blew the tank back out!
Amazingly it ran for years with ripples along the top of it.CRW had a belly tanker explode many years ago, blew the portakabin windows to pieces.
^^^ that’s the pic i was trying to find.
At a guess that was either a way out of certified date or already damaged tank, or deliberately run at higher than allowed pressure, you wouldn’t have wanted to be stood beside it when that volume of air departed, let alone being caught inside the folds of metal 
I’ve seen a tank sucked in drastically, can’t imagine anyone being daft enough to try re-inflating one, i’d be off up the road fast as my size 11’s could carry me if i saw someone attempting suicide like this and likely to kill or injure anyone else within 50 feet.
One more word - STATIC [emoji14]
Wheel Nut:
Trickydick:
windrush:
Wheel Nut:
If anyone saw the news today with the inflatable that exploded, they work on a couple of pound of pressure from an electric fan.I imagine they will soon be banned
We never had a tanker explode but had a couple that imploded, sucked in!
Pete.
We had a driver on the sugar contract, who had it hot washed internally, then a cold livery wash and he didnt open any vent valves, whoosh as it sucked itself in, the driver connected up the blower and blew the tank back out!
Amazingly it ran for years with ripples along the top of it.CRW had a belly tanker explode many years ago, blew the portakabin windows to pieces.
Unless Im wrong thats a Heil tanker and I have to say of all the tankers I saw over the years the Heils were the poorest made/welded, Feldbinder on the other hand were nice machines.
Sad as I am I reckon I can tell you exactly whats happened there, all the belly tankers have a void between their pots (just like a womans cleavage!) this is normally divided into two sections and both sections have a tell tale hole in the bottom and it was quite common on all makes of belly tankers for the void to start cracking and dust to come out of the tell tale, so it was back to the workshop for repairs.
I have heard of people banging bits of wood into the tell tale holes to stop the leak, sadly the void isnt designed as part of the actual pressure vessel.
Trickydick:
Unless Im wrong thats a Heil tanker and I have to say of all the tankers I saw over the years the Heils were the poorest made/welded, Feldbinder on the other hand were nice machines.Sad as I am I reckon I can tell you exactly whats happened there, all the belly tankers have a void between their pots (just like a womans cleavage!) this is normally divided into two sections and both sections have a tell tale hole in the bottom and it was quite common on all makes of belly tankers for the void to start cracking and dust to come out of the tell tale, so it was back to the workshop for repairs.
I have heard of people banging bits of wood into the tell tale holes to stop the leak, sadly the void isnt designed as part of the actual pressure vessel.
I am no stress engineer but the strongest section is either a tube or a box, these pieces of aluminium plate tacked together to gain maximum cube have too many welds to fail.
I have been talking about pressure but in a 40 cube tank, that is a huge volume of air to contain, you can see there why some customers don’t want pressure vessels and ask for Bag in Box with Rotary Seal Discharge
I did 15+ years on powder tanks, blew everything from the finest dust to stone that was never meant to be blown. Cracking job, if you find the right company. We did nearly 50% empty running because the tanks were dedicated to that product and contamination couldnt be risked, would often, 3-4 times a week, run up to Scotland, then come all the way back to Derbyshire empty. Best advice given to me was to always treat the job your on like its the first time you`ve been there. I only gave the job up because the firm I was on went under thanks to two big contracts not being paid on time.
Must admit…theres some great advice on this post…i didnt have much experience on Powder tanks…but when i was on Solstor…we got trained and certified…in all the procedures…no one can train you for a blocked silo…or everything there is to know…but we had to be trained as it was a new contract with sugar from france to various places in the uk…we had all brand new equipment…lots of spares…feldbinder tanks (mostly new ) and our trainer followed in his car, across france and the uk at tipping, loading, was plants, followed our every move, and was one of the best jobs ever…we took the work from nobby…and he undercut to get it back…even though they were the worst time keepers…
Well thanks for the interesting replies it’s given me food for thought. Unfortunately by the time I rang the job was already filled. Thanks again
Wheel Nut:
Trickydick:
Unless Im wrong thats a Heil tanker and I have to say of all the tankers I saw over the years the Heils were the poorest made/welded, Feldbinder on the other hand were nice machines.Sad as I am I reckon I can tell you exactly whats happened there, all the belly tankers have a void between their pots (just like a womans cleavage!) this is normally divided into two sections and both sections have a tell tale hole in the bottom and it was quite common on all makes of belly tankers for the void to start cracking and dust to come out of the tell tale, so it was back to the workshop for repairs.
I have heard of people banging bits of wood into the tell tale holes to stop the leak, sadly the void isnt designed as part of the actual pressure vessel.I am no stress engineer but the strongest section is either a tube or a box, these pieces of aluminium plate tacked together to gain maximum cube have too many welds to fail.
I have been talking about pressure but in a 40 cube tank, that is a huge volume of air to contain, you can see there why some customers don’t want pressure vessels and ask for Bag in Box with Rotary Seal Discharge
In the last 25 years I’ve sadly watched the move away from silos to these poxy bag in the box joke contraptions, particularly with international journeys witb plastics and the reason has never been a dislike of pressure delivery, in every case it was money. Bag in the box is cheaper much cheaper, about a third cheaper for the transport and much much cheaper when the receiving point has had a plant breakdown and they don’t want it for week, instead of either a vast demurrage bill or the cost of taking it back, the box goes to the nearest container base and is put into storage, it always comes down to money.
20 years ago I was in conversation with Horst Schmidt in Heilbronn and bag in the box came up, his comment was “stupid idea”, now he has about 6000 of the poxy things, unfortunately you have to give the customer what they demand or walk away.
n17 trucker:
Well thanks for the interesting replies it’s given me food for thought. Unfortunately by the time I rang the job was already filled. Thanks again
Thats a pity.
These types of jobs you’ve got strike quickly to appear ‘hungry enough’ to land the job if its a good one, i’ve known people where i am now not get jobs that were theirs for the taking (recommended in some cases) because they ■■■■■■ about, got to have a chat with the missus mull it over etc, and the company have said no…maybe they think if someone can’t be arsed to land the job what does that say their attitude will be once they’ve got the job.
This isn’t a pop at you, far from it, i’ve known several good blokes been turned down and the common thread was less than prompt actions by the applicant, just something to keep in mind next time something comes up 
trevHCS:
Couple of additional questions on this.
If you’re washing out, do you have to stand at the top and fill it with water then empty it or does the wash station place take care of all that for you? Wash station will do it for you, if you go to Middlewich there is even a full English chucked in foc.
Are powder tankers as tricky to drive as liquid with the contents sloshing all over the tank on corners and trying to force you forward when you brake? No but some very fine powders can move quite a bit.
Must admit, tankers has always appealed to me but I guess it’s one of those things you get into after many years experience (especially with the cost of tank repairs).
Not at all, I had only had my licence 3 months when I got into powder tanker work.
Same here, straight onto the tankers at cemex after passing my c+e… 14 years later still on them 
wouldn’t want to do anything else now.