Grahams
Don't complain - suggest what's better
I never find dumpy bags let the water through quick enough. I know it might mean spending money, but you can get dumpy bags made out of proper filter material which works a lot better.
Mogman
What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
Know what you mean but I’ve a couple of pallets full of them
may have to stab them a few times if it holds us up
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DaveDCB
Well-known member
Timber has literally gone up x3 in the last few months, you may have just struck gold..(like usual 
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
's gonna cut yer bag straps Mog 
and likely be a bitch to get 'em off if they survive .... got some tubes you could sit in the channels that'll slip on yer forks?? .... some 6" OD maybe or is that channel wider than that? tube is so much kinder to bag straps
before me bag lifter got created I used to put 114 dia. tubes across me forks and hang the straps on the tubes ... easy to thread through the loops with the forks lower than the loops, then just pick
and likely be a bitch to get 'em off if they survive .... got some tubes you could sit in the channels that'll slip on yer forks?? .... some 6" OD maybe or is that channel wider than that? tube is so much kinder to bag strapsbefore me bag lifter got created I used to put 114 dia. tubes across me forks and hang the straps on the tubes ... easy to thread through the loops with the forks lower than the loops, then just pick
T whiting
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Ye so think it'll cut the loops too unfortunately a couple of bits of box across the top with the bag hung on them so you can lift it down would work though. I tried making a one machine bag filling setup when we only had the tractor in the yard and I could never get anything to work very well that wasn't a faff a hopper on the forklift with a couple of hooks worked well though but ties up a forklift
Vinpetrol
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I need to spend more time “getting in that zone “A couple of weeks ago had a job of clearing a yard that a shed fabrication company was renting, had 4 artic loads of wood all tantalised York board and 1 load of 9x3 7x3 4x3 you get the picture
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also 60 ton of scrap including steel racking an old foden tractor unit and tautliner trailer
but I digress got a job coming up where I will need to filter silted water out of a Reed bed so needed a couple of dumpy bag lifters that will hold a ton bag in an IBC to catch the solids and let the water out that we will pump into them out of the wash plant I built a few years backand make a ton bag filling hopper so my grab can also fill dumpy bags so they can be left to drain out (only took a few pictures as I get in the ‘zone’)
started out with this from the above job a narrow steel rack not much use to me as a rackbut
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bit of cutting and welding later got these two made
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and with the rest glued this together
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and no new steel was harmed in the process
Mogman
What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
It isnt channel's gonna cut yer bag straps Mog
before me bag lifter got created I used to put 114 dia. tubes across me forks and hang the straps on the tubes ... easy to thread through the loops with the forks lower than the loops, then just pick
it’s folded plate that used to be a set of fork extensions turned upside down, but I know what your saying I’ve ground the tops to give a round profile, but if they start cutting the loops will have to make some sleeves that the forks will go in need some rubber convayer belt to extend the hopper then I’ll have a trial run
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
yeh, can see they're formed channels Mog ... what about some 8" pipe slit in half to sit over them and lift the bags off with those .. maybe some box attached to the under side of the half pipe to sit in the channels and slip the forks into ?It isnt channel
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Davedb
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Nice work if the bag holder doesn’t work you could try making the channel that holds the bag loops collapse inwards (hinge in the centre so it folds in on itself from a channel to a box making it narrower) as you lift the bag with the forks that way the weight will be on the forks and the bag will slide off easily
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DaveDCB
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Your all over thinking this, just go under the bag with a pallet on the forks and lift of like that 
Mogman
What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
Managed to throw 30 cube of concrete on the floor where my building Is going last Saturday was a small show in the morning but it soon blow over managed to power float the bollocks out of it and finished by 6 pm
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DaveDCB
Well-known member
What are the pads along the side for Paul?
looks a tidy job
looks a tidy job
Mogman
What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
They’re for this to stand onWhat are the pads along the side for Paul?
looks a tidy job
made a start on this today just me and my brother welded the stantons down to the 1” thick plates that we casted into the slab managed to get two bays up with all the perlins too and a few concrete panels to the far side wall
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Monkeybusiness
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It still concerns me that you spend so much of your life fannying around instead of getting stuff done Paul...
Mogman
What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
Mogman
What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
Speaking of fanning about working on a marina at the moment (scrapping old buildings and caravans)Fanning about is what I do best
and in true @Routy56 style ‘can you just’ lift my mast onto my boat please
Mogman
What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
It will be scrapped
it’s a super lifter with the extra counter weights on the back even geared up with a drag bucket 
JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
PM meIt will be scrapped
only trouble is scrap is doing well atm
Grahams
Don't complain - suggest what's better
If you buy that I'm coming down your yard for a play.PM me
I saw it in the background and thought I would really like that, but have no space and no use for it!
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