The 'Today's Job' thread

[V8Druid]

Sorry, but having one of your bag lifters will move the centre of gravity forward. Much safer to have all the loops on the one hook as designed even if you have to use a short strop to achieve this with over full bags.

sorry - disagree .... you are still lifting in the centre of the bag/mass as you would with all the straps on one hook, but not running the risk of bursting the bag ... only mod would be to have the lift eye on the lifter rotated 45 deg.s to align the lift eye across the sides of the bag rather than the corners to sit on the hook squarely

 

[Spurry]

My wife decided that the three-compartment compost bins were no longer needed, so they had to be removed.
Not sure if I put enough contrete on the uprights though.

 

[6feetdown]

My wife decided that the three-compartment compost bins were no longer needed, so they had to be removed.
Not sure if I put enough contrete on the uprights though.
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Can never be too careful

 

[Jimoz]

Yes, they make a huge difference. Where all the loops are on the one hook (even if you use a short strop to achieve this if the bags are very full) the centre of gravity is bought back closer to the machine and is lower as the boom is right down compared to suspending the bag on forks.
I had a fixed version, but the adjustable is much better, although a little heavier.

Do you get the bags with the 2 sleeves down the side for forks? We get some of them with certain merchants.

 

[hiluxman]

sorry - disagree .... you are still lifting in the centre of the bag/mass as you would with all the straps on one hook, but not running the risk of bursting the bag ... only mod would be to have the lift eye on the lifter rotated 45 deg.s to align the lift eye across the sides of the bag rather than the corners to sit on the hook squarely

Bag lifter on mine...ready for tomorrow's outing

 

[6feetdown]

Do you get the bags with the 2 sleeves down the side for forks? We get some of them with certain merchants.

Travis only have the fork pockets in our area no eyelets

 

[Giles]

Travis only have the fork pockets in our area no eyelets

Does anyone still use Travis anymore they’ve been shocking on price last time I compared even with a good historic customer special rates on stuff, not competitive even with Jewson let alone the leaner independents

 

[JD450A]

Does none still use Travis anymore they’ve been shocking on price last time I compared even with a good historic customer special rates on stuff not compete if even with Jews on let alone the leaner independents

TP are the definition of a waste of time.....

 

[hiluxman]

TP are the definition of a waste of time.....

Tp = toss pots

 

[Giles]

Doing a favour for engineer we do a lot of work for and who’s done all my extension stuff for free, can you expand gateway.

I’m like easy enough, next thing 1.5m across 1 ton ish sycamore stump in way and against the dry stone wall

Got it out after 2 hours digging rd it and teasing it up working toothed bucket under to fulcrum on it

Stupidly mentioned I could terrace field in 2 days with 3 ton now expecting that doing as well, becoming an expensive engineering package with the oak gate he specified not softwood

 

[6feetdown]

Does anyone still use Travis anymore they’ve been shocking on price last time I compared even with a good historic customer special rates on stuff, not competitive even with Jewson let alone the leaner independents

Use them through my keyline account, but your right their prices are steep

 

[DaveDCB]

Does anyone still use Travis anymore they’ve been shocking on price last time I compared even with a good historic customer special rates on stuff, not competitive even with Jewson let alone the leaner independents

Only for bulk, waste of time otherwise. I jewson are ok but way off on half the stuff they sell!

 

[Jimoz]

Does anyone still use Travis anymore they’ve been shocking on price last time I compared even with a good historic customer special rates on stuff, not competitive even with Jewson let alone the leaner independents

Known them as treble perkins for years.

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Known them as treble perkins for years.

Both our local branches shut down at Xmas 3 or 4 years ago.

 

[Lancs Lad]

Known them as treble perkins for years.

And yet on the canal job the CRT had at least 300 bulk bags delivered off them...

 

[Grahams]

Do you get the bags with the 2 sleeves down the side for forks? We get some of them with certain merchants.

The only ones we get like that have both the sleeves and the loops.

 

[Jimoz]

Both our local branches shut down at Xmas 3 or 4 years ago.

Yeh we had loads of smaller ones round here they all consolidated into a few biguns

And yet on the canal job the CRT had at least 300 bulk bags delivered off them...

As @DaveDCB Says it think in bulk they are ok. I was getting aircrete blocks off them about 10 years ago dirt cheap till my mate went in there kicking off asking why he wasn't getting the same deal then the young lad who was sorting my prices got told to up them. Loose lips sink ships as they say.

 

[Furniss]

Got my fellas place tidied.

nipped back to put stones and whatever round this pond (liner nothing to do with me)

yorkshire for a funeral now on the ktm beast - hope it dunt piss down !

 

[Storrsy]

So customer ordered 5 ton of bentonite on 20kg bags . Doing 3 of the seasonal ponds I dug back in Nov to try and get the water to hold longer into the spring, they have been full all winter amazingly.
Did a pond by hand yesterday but 250 bags is a lot so using the thumb now- grab a bag from the edge give it a prod with the thumb to pierce it grab the opposite corner gives a lovely spread with the swing on the bag! Done a pond in 40 mins without getting out the cab Vs all afternoon back breaking work by hand!

 

[V8Druid]

And yet on the canal job the CRT had at least 300 bulk bags delivered off them...

not their money