Any way to move a 1 tonne bag of sand

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[mattylad]

Let this be a learning experience.
Next time start at the bag at the other end

 

[Chathura]

can you use a pallet truck?

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I had the same issue, thankfully my nice neighbour was driving past on his forklift truck when I was pondering the issue. Seriously! Problem solved, surely?

Sadly the thing fell apart when we tried to lift it using the 4 corner loops. Don't think these bags are very good. It had been raining recently though. So I ended up using the barrow and a shovel, it really didn't take very long though.

More recently moved some using a forklift and the slide-in tube parts instead of the loops. These survived the journey.

 

[Old Salt]

can you use a pallet truck?

It must have been moved by now surely? It was 2 years ago, perhaps Woodys train was cancelled?

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

It must have been moved by now surely? It was 2 years ago, perhaps Woodys train was cancelled?

Blimey, why did this thread get dug up?

It was 3 years ago actually!

 

[Chathura]

It must have been moved by now surely? It was 2 years ago, perhaps Woodys train was cancelled?

Yes, surely, because it was 2 years ago. I asked the question for a different reason—wanted to know if someone has tried that and encountered any problems. I remember that my neighbours grandpa was someone like you. He had an opinion about everything but never had any sense of possibilities of contexts. So people in his time had already nicknamed him accordingly.

 

[Chathura]

I had the same issue, thankfully my nice neighbour was driving past on his forklift truck when I was pondering the issue. Seriously! Problem solved, surely?

Sadly the thing fell apart when we tried to lift it using the 4 corner loops. Don't think these bags are very good. It had been raining recently though. So I ended up using the barrow and a shovel, it really didn't take very long though.

More recently moved some using a forklift and the slide-in tube parts instead of the loops. These survived the journey.

We had a delivery last week for the build of our house extension and the (truck) crane operator had a difficult time in unloading the sand bulk bag because of a telephone wire that runs across towards my neighbours property. We got creative and managed to unload it on the driveway, but I wanted to find out a way to make his life easy. That's when I checked on this topic and found the thread. I have pallets that can be used to unload the sand bulk bag on the street and I just bought a pallet truck.

Yes, the thread is 2 years old—but, the time you took to explain your experience isn't going to get waste as it helped me and will help many others who find this conversation in the future.

 

[Old Salt]

Yes, surely, because it was 2 years ago. I asked the question for a different reason—wanted to know if someone has tried that and encountered any problems. I remember that my neighbours grandpa was someone like you. He had an opinion about everything but never had any sense of possibilities of contexts. So people in his time had already nicknamed him accordingly.

But you never said you had the same problem and could a pallet truck be used?

We had someone like you in my old firm, happy to gob off but never explained what the real problem was until it was solved by someone else. He invariably f*cked up and relied on others to sort it out.

 

[noseall]

We've got an old Manitou AND a forklift on our site. I've never been so spoiled.

 

[Chathura]

But you never said you had the same problem and could a pallet truck be used?

We had someone like you in my old firm, happy to gob off but never explained what the real problem was until it was solved by someone else. He invariably f*cked up and relied on others to sort it out.

Has your opinions ever worked for anyone?

I don't have to say I had the same or similar problem and describe the same thing over and over, do I? Because, this entire thread is about that exact problem. So, it's a simple question I asked. Couldn't you at least see the "Question mark" at the end? I had that question mark at the end of the statement because I was asking a question. If I was suggesting a solution to the original question of this thread I would have said "use a pallet truck".

If you have no experience or expertise to share, why would you even bother to jump in? Are you just being a Busy body and Nosy by habit?

I wasn't waiting until someone else solving any problem. If I was someone like that, I would just let the delivery truck/crane person to go through the same troubles again without even thinking about a solution to help his job. I have already paid them, and I could have just let him handle it. I placed the second delivery order today by the afternoon and even got a pallet truck delivered in the evening, because I am not someone who waits until someone else solving a problem.

Anyone can understand what you do here by looking at the very first response you have given to the creator of this thread. You are just a busy body with lots of time to waste. Do the world a favour—stay away from online forums like this.

 

[Old Salt]

And you’ve been around long enough to form an opinion, I have a number of likes to my posts how many have you got?

You are on ignore so prattle away to your hearts content.

 

[robinbanks]

Sadly the thing fell apart when we tried to lift it using the 4 corner loops

Must have been out in the UV for a long time, or acquired some damage; those bags can take a ridiculous amount of punishment before falling apart

These days I'd just get my forklift out and move it. In the old days, if I'd been so remiss as to not have the builder's lorry drop the bag onto a pallet I would have got out a couple of sections of that nasty green H shaped slot together scaffold, and my block and tackle, and lifted the bag up so I could slide a pallet under it and use the pallet truck.

In the really old days before I owned a pallet truck I had the patience to move them a short way using an A frame and chain

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

It hadn't been there long but it had rained lots so probably very heavy. It split underneath, where the sun never shines.

 

[robinbanks]

Sounds like it'd been abused somewhere along the way after filling; scraped on rough ground would be my bet

I wouldn't stand under even a new one, but I know someone who did so they could drop a tone of ice water on themselves for the ALS challenge. Good stunt, though they did end up getting knocked over by the water, and landed on the knife they'd slashed the bag with. No serious injury but it could have gone worse!