Since a lot of the owners on this site are getting older, I thought I would share some photos of a “Thingy” (inside Joke) I made to help save my back! About a month ago when cleaning pits, I hurt my back lifting the heavy buckets of mud up and dumping them into my 2 cu yd dumpster. To clarify, I am allowed to dump the pit mud in the dumpster as long as the mud is in a contractor’s bag; I use 4 mil 55 gallon bags and have never had one rupture…
I’ve owned the wash for 14 years now and clean the pits by myself once a month. I average between 6-10 (5) gallon buckets of mud…I guess my age finally caught up with me, almost 63 now and my back let me know I can’t do what I used to do! Luckily I think it was just a pulled muscle! Yea, I can fill the buckets half full, but what’s the fun in that?
Anyway, just got done using it this week and all I can say is it worked like I planned it to! About 6-7 easy cranks and the bucket was up high enough to dump easily…No strain what-so-ever on my back! It may have taken a few minutes longer, but hurting my back was way worse. Plus I’m retired now from the day job, so what are a few minutes more!
I’ve owned the wash for 14 years now and clean the pits by myself once a month. I average between 6-10 (5) gallon buckets of mud…I guess my age finally caught up with me, almost 63 now and my back let me know I can’t do what I used to do! Luckily I think it was just a pulled muscle! Yea, I can fill the buckets half full, but what’s the fun in that?
Anyway, just got done using it this week and all I can say is it worked like I planned it to! About 6-7 easy cranks and the bucket was up high enough to dump easily…No strain what-so-ever on my back! It may have taken a few minutes longer, but hurting my back was way worse. Plus I’m retired now from the day job, so what are a few minutes more!
