So under craigslist, Dallas, there is some ICF bracing and tools for sale. Configured in an Insulated Reefer Trailer, pulled by a semi with a sleeper. Looks like it is configured to handily and legally cross the US or overseas with enough bracing and tools to form and pour 600 ft. of wall 16 ft. high, every week. Why haul more that that?
Which brings to mind, if you are in the business, how do you mobilize your gear? Those in the industry know that mobilization, planning, cleanup and safe travel are the keys to straighter walls, faster. After all, we are just stacking foam legos lol! A monkey could do it!!!!:) but could the monkey fool the DOT????
Time to separate the men from the boys, the posers and the playboys, those pissin with the pups and those runnin' with the wolves!
So, installers, how do you get there and do it time after time?
We have run 2500 diesel pickups with ladder racks and airbags. Turnbuckles, a job box, sawhorses in the bed, ladders and walkplanks on top, pulling a 7000lb enclosed trailer with strongbacks, materials, and beer.
And 3500 flatbed duallies with airbags, pulling gooseneck trailers, and beer.
Then when we came out west, added an enclosed trailer behind the gooseneck as we are allowed to be 85 ft. long. 100 sets bracing plus beer.
But we found just because we got to the jobsite, often we couldn't get into- or out of - the jobsite. So a 4wd Internationl crew cab 7300 22ft. flat bed with underbody boxes, ladder racks. 100 sets of bracing, weighed 29,000 lbs. plus whiskey and beer came in handy for a few years.
But the binder wouldn't pull the hills, and wanted to stay in state, so we switched to a Peterbilt 379 dump truck filled with bracing with no end gate, pulling a Trackhoe on a 20 ton tilt deck trailer, supported by a dually and enclosed trailer, with Canadian whiskey and high point beer.
The guy I started working for worked framed houses out of the back of a camaro, and smoked dope. I'm thinking he had it right.
Show me what you got!