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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Chris R on April 11, 2005, 09:35:57 pm

Title: Truck mount fuel consumption? Mike H
Post by: Chris R on April 11, 2005, 09:35:57 pm

From various bits of research I gather that most petrol powered truckmounts will use about 3 litres of fuel per hour. So cost about £2.50per hour to run.
The cost to run a diesel truck mount can be £1.00 per hour if you run it on red diesel.
But Mr Hallidays (own build) truckmount seems to cost only 90p per hour to run.
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I must admit, when I was giving my gas consumption I was guessing, so today i measured it exactly I filled it up this morning home & back again 5hrs  work @ £210 and when I filled it up again just now I'd used £4.76p so my fuel cost are about 2.3% of turn over
just wondered why?
and also if I am correct  about truckmount fuel consumption figures?
thanks
Chris

Title: Re: Truck mount fuel consumption? Mike H
Post by: SMP on April 11, 2005, 11:10:11 pm

Where did you get the £1.00 from?  Has it been measured that accurately.  10 pence per hour difference isn't a lot.  Other factors that will make a difference are the make / model of truckmount and how it is used.  I have a woodbridge diesel which has a separate diesel fired boiler to heat the water.  The fuel consumption is still so low that I end up running it on white diesel because it is so much trouble to go and fetch red!!

Cheers
Steve.

PS.  I have never tried to measure the fuel connsumption that accurately.

Title: Re: Truck mount fuel consumption? Mike H
Post by: Dave Parry on April 12, 2005, 12:03:41 am

I have kept records of petrol used in my boxxer since Feb 2004. and it works out at 4 litres /hour.

Title: Re: Truck mount fuel consumption? Mike H
Post by: richie on April 12, 2005, 03:55:11 am

Some time ago we tested a Spitfire 4.0 against a Maxx 450D. The test was done with ONE LITRE OF FUEL IN A CONTAINER FOR BOTH MACHINES.

Spitfire 4.0         12.5 minutes
Maxx 450D         23.0 minutes

Both machines were set at FULL POWER.

So that worked out approx;

Spitfire 4.0 20hp petrol engine         55 - 56 minutes on 1 gallon of fuel
Maxx 450D 23hp diesel engine         1 hour 42 minutes on 1 gallon of fuel

Both machines had a Roots 45 Blower on them.


Richie.

Title: Re: Truck mount fuel consumption? Mike H
Post by: Mike Halliday on April 12, 2005, 07:16:45 am

Chris, when I say five hours work, I meant I left my home at 8.30am and returned at 1.30 not the machine was running for 5 hrs, the machine was actually running for about 3.5hrs

my machine uses a small 13hp honda GX90 engine which in T/M terms is small