We all know the phrase “time is money”. What if there were a faster way to get your construction and landscaping projects done without skimping on quality? There is. It’s called a slinger truck. We use them every day to help our clients achieve more efficient material placement for more profitable projects.
What Are Slinger Trucks?
Slinger trucks, sometimes called stone slingers, are specialized vehicles equipped with a large box, a mechanical arm and a high-speed conveyor belt. This setup allows slinger trucks to transport and precisely “sling” aggregate materials like stone, compost, or sand with remarkable accuracy.
Slinger trucks can even efficiently place materials in hard to reach areas. With a slinger truck, your construction project or landscaping endeavor could have efficient material placement in a fraction of the time.
How Do Slinger Trucks Work?
The heart of a slinger truck’s functionality is its high-speed conveyor belt system. The mechanical arm, controlled by one of our experienced and highly trained operators, adjusts angles and speed to place materials up to 70 feet away from the back of the truck with pinpoint accuracy.
Our precise placement means less material spillage and less waste. This enhanced efficiency greatly reduces the need for manual material handling. (Your team will appreciate less time spent moving aggregate materials with backhoes and shovels.)
Using a stone slinger for material placement greatly increases customer satisfaction, because you can stay on or ahead of schedule, can increase cost savings and add time back into your schedule.
What Are Slinger Trucks Used For?
Slinger trucks can be used for a variety of applications in both construction and landscaping.
- Construction: A slinger truck is ideal for filling foundations, crawlspaces, and driveways with materials like pea-stone and crushed concrete. Slinger trucks can also be used for pool and seawall backfills or even creating foundation drainage for new property development.
- Landscaping: Slinger trucks are perfect for distributing topsoil, compost, and mulch across large areas. We often use blower trucks as well for this type of material placement.
- Municipalities: A stone slinger can also provide a cost effective way to prepare a playground or park. We can use slinger trucks to fill a sand volleyball court, add playground sand, or even place mulch.
What Is a Slinger Truck’s Capacity?
Our slinger trucks can handle various materials up to two-and-a-half inches in size. On average, one slinger truck can hold between 15-18 yards of material, making them the perfect equipment for large-scale projects.
3 Ways Slinger Trucks Enhance Efficiency
- Shorter Project Timelines: Your landscaping and construction projects can get done in a fraction of the time. We can deliver and place your materials faster than a team could by hand. That means we can make your construction process shorter and your clients happier.
- Precise Material Placement: Nothing is more frustrating than finishing a big material placement job and then having to clean up the stray bits of material. With our team’s precision, the stone slinger can place your gravel, crushed concrete, or other aggregate material exactly where it is supposed to go. That means you’ll have minimal material waste, less mess and no cleanup time (because we do that part too).
- Less Manual Labor: When our stone slingers are taking care of the time-consuming material placement, you are able to use your team for more profitable tasks. No more overtime wasted on sand and stone placement. With our slinger trucks, your project timeline will be more predictable and more cost effective.
Who Has Slinger Trucks in the Midwest?
In the Midwest, Superior Groundcover has one of the largest fleets of slinger and blower trucks. We offer services in Michigan, Indiana, and across the midwest. Our slinger trucks can be used to install a large range of materials, including:
- Pea-stone
- Crushed concrete
- Topsoil
- Compost
- Fill sand
- Beach sand
Here at Superior Groundcover, our extensive fleet of blower and slinger trucks coupled with our experienced team make us a preferred partner for more efficient construction and landscaping material placement.
If you are tired of wasting time, money, and manpower with manual material placement, get an estimate from Superior Groundcover today to make your next landscape or construction project more predictable and profitable.
