Deas Plant
Senior Member
Hi, Folks.
In my poking around in dim to almost black corners of the web today, I happened upon this little gem. It is a cost comparison between ADT's and pull pans and no prizes for guessing who the winner is, although I did notice that they didn't factor in any compaction costs for the pull pans, claiming that pull pans need little or no compaction equipment. (See competetive equipment methods for moving dirt, page 4. I don't even want to think about trying for 100% Level One compaction with just pull pans.) nor a grader or dozer to keep their fill in shape and no watercart for either operation.
Having said that, they didn't factor the cost of a grader for the haul roads into either operation either, although a Cat 12H was mentioned. If a grader was available for haul roads for each operation, the pull pan grader could conceivably also keep the pull pan fill in shape for it has been my experience that no form of scraper operates well for long without some form of dump area maintenance.
http://www.pullpans.com/Cost.pdf
In my poking around in dim to almost black corners of the web today, I happened upon this little gem. It is a cost comparison between ADT's and pull pans and no prizes for guessing who the winner is, although I did notice that they didn't factor in any compaction costs for the pull pans, claiming that pull pans need little or no compaction equipment. (See competetive equipment methods for moving dirt, page 4. I don't even want to think about trying for 100% Level One compaction with just pull pans.) nor a grader or dozer to keep their fill in shape and no watercart for either operation.
Having said that, they didn't factor the cost of a grader for the haul roads into either operation either, although a Cat 12H was mentioned. If a grader was available for haul roads for each operation, the pull pan grader could conceivably also keep the pull pan fill in shape for it has been my experience that no form of scraper operates well for long without some form of dump area maintenance.
http://www.pullpans.com/Cost.pdf