Faster Way To Load Up Mobile Wash Plant?

[bakersoft]

At Tier 2 mining I am looking for a quicker way to load up dirt into the mobile wash plant. I have the small excavator right now and think I can operate it pretty smoothly but loading up the wash plant takes about 5-6 scoops of dirt to be completely full. I don't want to keep the pumps and generator running when a good portion of the time they are doing nothing while I continue to load up the wash plant. So, I'm looking for options on how I can grab dirt and load it up faster so my resources (gas) aren't being wasted so quickly. Here's my current process to maximize my resources:

1. Load up mobile wash plant to 100% with small excavator.
2. Grab a single extra load of dirt and position it over the mobile wash plant, ready to be dumped.
3. Position the truck by the farthest water pump and switch to it.
4. Exit the truck and turn on the first pump.
5. Run and turn on the second pump.
6. Run and turn on the third pump.
7. Turn on the power generator (mobile wash plant always on but no power until generator is on).
8. Get back into small excavator and dump pre-loaded dirt into mobile wash plant.
9. Get 1 more scoop of dirt and dump into mobile wash plant. By this time, the wash plant has already processes almost 100% of what was previously loaded.
10. Wait for wash plant to finish processing. Turn off excavator. Jump back to truck at furthest water pump.
11. Repeat above steps 4-7 except turn everything off.

This seems to be the most efficient way to save on gas especially. However, per the above I am looking for a quicker way to get dirt loaded up so I don't need to keep running around turning stuff on and off AND also not worry about wasting too much gas. Any suggestions? Please be kind. LOL

[z3n]

You just need one single pump for mobile wash plant. Doesn't matter where you are. You just need fat hoses and connectors for them. Then use the big excavator for the washplant because he is able to fill the washplant up to 40% with one scoop. If you work in a 90 Degree angle it's no problem to fill the washplant without losing running time.

[bakersoft]

Originally posted by SK:

You just need one single pump for mobile wash plant. Doesn't matter where you are. You just need fat hoses and connectors for them. Then use the big excavator for the washplant because he is able to fill the washplant up to 40% with one scoop. If you work in a 90 Degree angle it's no problem to fill the washplant without losing running time.

Thank you for the pro tip. That definitely saves me a lot of running around and gives me a single point where I can turn everything on and then back off easily. Now I just need to save up enough to get the bigger excavator!

[dogwalker1]

Really for how much gas you burn with one small pump and one generator imo the time wasted getting out to turn them on and off is not worth it. The down-time on your digging activity to do that is probably costing you more.

[bakersoft]

Originally posted by dogwalker1:

Really for how much gas you burn with one small pump and one generator imo the time wasted getting out to turn them on and off is not worth it. The down-time on your digging activity to do that is probably costing you more.

If I had the larger excavator I would agree but a 22% loaded mobile wash plant is processed so quickly where if I leave everything on it takes too much time to keep feeding it dirt so there are cycles being burned through where I'm just wasting gas. If the large excavator fills 40% at a time then the last scoop should be finished processing by the time I am starting to load the next one and therefore there would be no wasted cycles.

[dogwalker1]

Look at it this way... if the pump and generator are running unnecessarily for say, 80% of the time, how much gas ($) in the day are you actually wasting? On the other hand, if the time you spend getting out and turning them on and off reduces your digging time by just, I don't know, 5%, on a 100 oz day that's 5 oz or around $6K. I'm sure the gas you wasted was not worth $6K. Or $1.2K for that matter if you're only getting 20 oz/day...

I applaud your mindfulness with respect to wasting and unnecessarily polluting though (but this is already a game about trashing acres of wilderness for personal profit, so...)

Just food for thought.

[Legendary Squash]

Originally posted by dogwalker1:

Look at it this way... if the pump and generator are running unnecessarily for say, 80% of the time, how much gas ($) in the day are you actually wasting? On the other hand, if the time you spend getting out and turning them on and off reduces your digging time by just, I don't know, 5%, on a 100 oz day that's 5 oz or around $6K. I'm sure the gas you wasted was not worth $6K. Or $1.2K for that matter if you're only getting 20 oz/day...

I applaud your mindfulness with respect to wasting and unnecessarily polluting though (but this is already a game about trashing acres of wilderness for personal profit, so...)

Just food for thought.

If you have ever watched some the bonus episodes of Gold Rush, the crew flattens the ground then replants vegetation.

[Bert]

And set 2 washplants close up at each other.

[Feminine Pizza Bag]

I dug out a lower spot to park the Tier 2 and fed it with the dump truck. You have to be careful not to over fill it but you can time it and get it to 90+% full at the very end letting it process while you go fill the truck back up. With that system, you don't have to keep resetting up the stupid tier 2 plant. It's a huge PITA.