Poll: Do you clean your car wash pits yourself?

[Debra Gorgos]

Please answer the following poll....

 

[MudMoney]

I have cleaned my pits for over 20 years,on my 2nd ring-matic 750. I pump in the evening when wash has slowed down. I paid off first pumper in 2 1/2 years pumping my 3 washes and hiring out too. I didn't pump sewage tanks.

 

[Twodose]

Used to, but not anymore.

 

[MEP001]

I've been digging them, but my back can't handle it anymore. I'm dealing with four washes now, we just priced out having them pumped and they want $6000 twice a year. Time to buy a Ring-o-matic clamshell cleaner...

 

[soapy]

I used a ringomatic for 25 years and did all the pumping myself for the first 15 years. Then I mostly let my employees do it for 10 years. Now I use a tractor with a custom made pit shovel and I do the pit cleaning about 1/2 the time as this makes cleaning the pits like sitting on a easy chair. Gator from this forum made the first one.

 

[Greg_T]

I do my own, and make sure I do some each week rather than letting it built up. At this stage I can still get it done with shovel and buckets, but I'll see where I'm at in 5-10 years!

 

[Flex- Wand]

One bourbon, one ,beer, one ,pit ! Love that dirty water.

 

[I.B. Washincars]

On my dad's first wash, back in the early 70s, we shoveled them out, directly into the dumpster. All subsequent washes, we built with large pits and always paid to have them cleaned.

 

[cooll903]

do it myself with a ring-matic. i have 4 bays total and it only takes me a couple of hours. then i haul the dirt to my property and dump it.

 

[Twodose]

So I had my pits in the bays pumped about a month ago, 3-1000 gallon in the bays, this guy charged me $350.00, I know cheap, I gave him $450.00 and said I will see you next year!

 

[OurTown]

So I had my pits in the bays pumped about a month ago, 3-1000 gallon in the bays, this guy charged me $350.00, I know cheap, I gave him $450.00 and said I will see you next year!

That is suspiciously cheap. Did you ever ask where he dumps it? The best price we have found is $350 per 1,250 gallon bay and compared to everyone else was crazy cheap.

 

[Twodose]

They take it to a sewage treatment plant, I actually offered them to unload some on my property because they couldn't fit all three bays on there truck for one trip, and they refused to do it.