Sawdust to Stone: The Evolution of Dump, Sling, and Blower Trucks
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- Many thanks to Arlen, Luke, and everyone at Conveyor Application Systems who assisted us in putting this video together. These guys were wonderful to work with and assisted greatly by (1) making great equipment, and (2) providing all this cool footage of the equipment in use. This is a fantastic company and their equipment is top notch as you can see.
Learn more about CAS and Sling Trucks here slingers.com/
Learn more about Blower Trucks here www.expressblower.com/
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Thank you, be safe, and be grateful.
And Arlen plays a mean pedal steel guitar as well👍
And last year he donated a parcel of land to help start a community for the homeless.
This is one great dude 🙏🏻
Nothing but respect, my Father built heavy vehicles for 43 years, then someone asked him to fit out a boat, a whole new career in his retirement! The innovation he bought to the boats amazed people, his sources, vehicle trade magazines! A client flew him to Germany, they were amazed he didn’t have a PhD, his “only” qualification was a basic Trade course and 50+ years of doing and thinking!
I worked on Chandler and I-10 202 loop in 2002 in the Phoenix area. When the landscape rock bid came toward the end of that job, I had no idea how to bid it. We imagined having skid steers and loaders staged in different areas, stock piles of rock staged in different areas, needless to say, we were way high on our bid, then a company called FNF got the job, driving by I seen several of these sling trucks picking up rock in just a single area, job had about 300,000 ton, they just shot it and drove around. I never thought about using them, FNF did and they got the job.
I've been an electrician for 22 years and have never seen one of these in action. And I've been on some crazy projects. I suppose we're generally not on site when these would come in. But also I wonder if they aren't real popular in CO.
I grew up in Eugene, driving down country roads at night you would see those wigwam burners glowing bright red with sparks flying out the top, it was an awesome sight.
these sling trucks are so useful, we have used them on several jobs in oregon. SO much easier than grading with a skid steer or excavator.
Great piece Nate & Scott - production, animations, and narration top notch. The manufacturer was passionate and nerdy with details, just what we love to see in construction!
Just used a "Slinger" to get top soil tothe back of my property , essentially saved 750 wheelbarrows worth of work. Priceless .
I had to get a lot of fill and topsoil to the back of my property, while a slinger would have been nice, it was the excuse I needed to convince my wife I needed a compact tractor with a loader on it. It took longer than a slinger wood, but I got a tractor now 🙂
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This was fascinating. If you’ve never seen a slinger type conveyor truck at work then you owe it to yourself. They are legit game-changers. When my homeboy Larry built the foundation for his house he had a slinger truck place the gravel in his crawlspase and it was done lickety-split.
Thanks, from a slinger operator. They are fun and badass
Grew up seeing these rigs around, especially on highway/freeway right of way landscape jobs. Never realized they were made here in Eugene about 60 miles from where I have lived for 60+years.
This brings back so many memories. As a kid in the 60s and into the 70s our house in BC's Okanagan valley was heated by sawdust - the big chunky stuff from a nearby sawmill. Fully a third of the basement was the "sawdust pit" and there was a hatch in the wall where the dump trucks would, with a chute attachment, fill it up. As young kids my brothers and I loved to play in the piles, which drove our mum nuts when we'd come upstairs covered in the stuff. The furnace was a huge thing. A big round burner for firewood which was never used by us, and the large hopper that the sawdust was dropped into. My folks would always top it off as late as possible each night but by morning it would have gone empty, so it was always waking up to a frigid house in the winter. I had almost forgotten about that.
My first experience with a stone slinger was in 1997, when my wife and I raised our house 4.5 feet. To get the new basement slab above the drainage level (and make a level entry) we needed about 35 yards of drain rock. I'd never heard of these machines but our fantastic concrete company rep put us on to it. The piles inside needed some pulling down and leveling (young boys helped with that), but the way the operator did that and expertly placed the rock over the new perimeter drain was amazing. The money it cost for four trips with that machine when compared to the wasted time and back damage I would have endured was a bargain. It's the old thing that the fewer times you have to move something the better. If you can put it right where you need it, better still. Thanks for a great story of innovation, and to Arlen and his family for being true pioneers.
I find it as a good thing that you are on here promoting a good, successful. and useful company that is here in Oregon. Wow! Someone is pushing success!.... NOT just dependence. How refreshing. (But to me, that is what I see you all doing with your videos here. Keep up your good, constructive work. )
First time I saw these trucks filling in sand over sewer lines for new community in Phoenix when I was working on a production home site in the early 00's. I was amazed that the driver was driving the truck, controlling the conveyor, and placing the sand perfect all at the same time standing to the side with a remote control. I was in awe. Now these are common place everywhere, but holy crap it is awesome to watch.
Impressive! Just kept solving problems and now a logistical solution. Really enjoyable thank you
Never seen a slinger in TN. Very cool.
Interesting , Thank You .A fine example of an inventive family , solving problems
This is a great intro to an EC2 podcast interview - prepping us as to what "they" do is a pretty powerful tool for keeping attention!
Fascinating! Have never seen anything like this! Especially in southwest Florida! Great content EC!
Saw my first gravel shooter 35 years ago and couldn't believe what I was watching. You see cool stuff on the job site
What a great success story and a nice walk down history lane.
Great video! I've used these trucks on the job here in Eugene many times, fantastic piece of equipment.
The innovations in construction in the 40 years I worked in the field have been amazing.
Thank you for this story. Had no idea that it was an Oregon invention. Please pass along my gratitude to the people at the company.
10+ years landscaping in the PNW, blower trucks moved thousands of yards for us. That otherwise would have been done by hand.
Just, learn from our mistake, and use the slinger for enviro mix the blowers don't like that sticky wet compost.
Wow, I have never seen these before. I grew up in norther Indiana and have lived around the world and the states but have never see this before, makes a lot more sense than the old wheel barrel & a shovel, I knows those, in depth, that’s how we did it. Thanks for the video sir.
I feel like I've never seen these in Michigan, but I can think of hundreds of things that would be useful for the high speed slingers. I've seen semi trucks used for mulch blowing before, but it looked to be locally made, just for mulch.
I can see a business springing up in every town!
Love Arlen's enthusiasm for the trucks.
WoW! I never knew such a thing even existed. ya learn something every day. Thank you for sharing this Unique, clearly very successful company.
I love sling trucks. The first time I saw 20 - 30 yards of soil placed in as many minutes was amazing.
The remote control trucks just had my jaw on the floor
yeah. "we would have heard about it". I get that all the time about my airships. loved hearing how this company got past that and grew. there IS light at the end of the tunnel! thanks EC!
Love the look of your trucks 🚚 never seen anything like this in the UK 🇬🇧
I saw my first slinger truck about 3 years ago. One of the most impressive inventions I’ve seen. Makes life much much easier
One of the best episodes yet.
Thanks!
thank you for this video. we use a company to deliver our stone to fill our foundations who uses a sling truck and it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. absolutely fascinating. we are Firelands habitat for humanity and we build 3 houses per year
Used to be friends with a family that owned some quarries and a ready mix business. They were really happy when they got a few trucks with this capability.
I was on a crew transporting bark into a wetland area, this meant no power tools like atv's and quads, we had to transport all of it to location via hand cart. We are talking like 50 to 75 yards with a crew of 4, not motivating at all, lol. My boss stalled for a bit then made some calls, next thing I knew a slinger was showing up just off of the wetland boundary. After that I and the rest of the crew spent our time pointing and doing hand signals instead of humping little awkward carts through a rough marsh. Those guys could place that stuff like nobodies business. Nice solution, good thinking, great boss! :)
What a GREAT story!!! Thanks for the video and content.
I have a customer here in Michigan that runs 3 of the CAS TR20 tracked slingers. They really are amazing machines.
Learn something new every day! Gracias
Those are nice machines, they really deserve their success for having come up with an original idea and making a living from it. All too often, you tell a joke and nobody laughs, then somebody says it louder and everybody thinks that guy is funny.
This is great, I'm used to working with Big concrete pumps but these are even faster for another application.
Why did I have no idea this was an invention? It's great!👍
I often wish I was born 20 centuries ago and only worried about my arrows and dinner. As a general contractor in CA I am fascinated by human ingenuity and really cool technology. This rig is awesome I can't imagine a large project without it. Thanks for always sharing updates on my career
This is great stuff. I love history, and I’ve always been curious about these trucks I see cruising around my area. The owner seems like a great, straight shooter, type of guy and easy to listen to tell the story. Thanks for sharing this.
That was awesome! Really incredible ingenuity!
Fantastic story!
Brilliant !
WOW! This is too cool. I never knew this was a thing. I love this.
Great video. Great story. Thanks!
AWESOME...so many applications
Those trucks are genius! Let people think and work through their daily problems and they come up with creative and powerful solutions.
I wish I had the money for one... I would make up my own applications. :D
Thanks, you two!
Absolutely fascinating story and presentation.
Amazing!
Fascinating
Engineers blow my mind. Seriously. Awesome peeps.
Absolutely excellent piece od documentary, good job fellas!
One thing I would love to have seen was the slinger belts. I'm convinced that they and the impellers are the high maintenance parts. So many places - so many jobs could use one or more of these.
That was excellent
Super cool! Saw the first one about 20 years ago in the greater Seattle area - I suspect they've caught on a great deal more since. Awesome product!
Fantastic story!!
I live in New Zealand; I don't think I've ever seen trucks like these. Very impressive, and at looks like a great place to work!
Kool stuff.
These are the types of videos that keep me going with my TH-cam videos 🙏🏼
Great job
Nice format, I'd enjoy more like this.
Excellent video! What a great story.
Fascinating. Not many, if any of these in Maine.
Great episode EC Crew
Thank you for the video
Fascinating! Thanks for this very interesting video.
Ur an inspiration boss! You inspire me to keep going with my TH-cam videos 🙌🏼
Very, Very Interesting Video!!! Thank You!!!
i hadnt enjoyed learning about throwing rocks this much since i was 6 and my dad taught me how to skip rocks on the water.
This is a great video I never knew this was how the slinger trucks started!
What a great production video. Keep them coming!! Awesome story, I’ll take two
Interesting mini documentary!
Fantastic video, and quite inspiring.
Interesting video thanks 😊
You said "we're not in Kansas anymore". The moment I saw the truck, all I could think of was the chute that fills the wagons full of corn on a midwest combine...
Awesome!
Really interesting stuff
That’s cool!
That"s awesome! I don't think that I have ever seen one of those before... now my brain is trying to find a new way to use one! haha
very cool video.hope you do more like this .love the story on how they made the trucks.
I've seen a sling truck a few times, but knew nothing at all about them. Very interesting.
Wow, I love content like this!
Great video! Really interesting topic, all new to me!
GREAT BUSINESS , HARD WORK , BIG HUG 👍🇲🇽
Thanks, that was really interesting!
very impressive
Talk about getting in on the ground floor of an industry --- Having to convince your customers that the basic concept you're trying to sell is feasible!
I have been around conveyor trucks which are impressive too... but I have never seen a sling truck. Impressive
HOLEECOW !! Amazing ! 👊😎
Thats a really cool story, Talk about the mother of invention, Don't think I've ever seen anything like that .
A great example of real world innovation, thanks for covering these guys.
Really neat to hear the inside story about these slinger trucks, and surprising to learn that blower trucks come from the same place. Is that the same blower mechanism used for blown-in insulation?
I can't remember where I ran across them initially, but I used a slinger truck about a decade ago to load glass cullet into shipping containers for ocean freight. Turned what would have been hours worth of skid-steer loading time into minutes, loading directly into the container on the back of the semi truck, and no other special equipment required. We rented time with the slinger truck from an aggregate company, though I think back then we had to pay for them to travel an hour or two from the nearest company we could find that had one.
I really liked that.
Entrepreneurs responding to the market are the best problem solvers in the world, and without the profit motive there would be no entrepreneurs.
Very interesting. Love the documentary format. Scott can you talk about saw horses, and other carpentry necessities we can make with our hands? Keep up the good work!
Awesome
1950 The first mulch blower is invented and it's only been the last 15 years since I saw my first one in our area (Pittsburgh, PA). Now even the small companies have them. They got super popular, relatively quickly. Just saw my first slinger truck this year. I bet they will be pretty common over the next decade.
Strong strong video...top 3 I've seen today Fo Sho.