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If it’s used sell and buy new it’s not worth the hassle

Cheers Dan, seems to be the case. I’m learning slowly.

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Rough terrain forklift will be 7k+. If it's dried barrow bags, takes two people to lift and your away, or as @AHPP has said sack truck providing your trailer has a rear ramp. If your doing that also make sure the sides are higher than the bags so it won't need strapping down as tightly.

I'll second AHPP - even a second hand 'needs a bit of work' forklift is going to be what £3k+ ? A fair investment in what may or may not be a business, so what else do you have that could be used or do you have other uses for new equipment that can also lift bags? Fair bit of garden? not sure of this one, but ride on mower with an attachment?

It could be that a sack barrow is all you need. They are barrow sacks after all.

Would your campact handle a rear forklift like a mcconnel one. Or just fit front loader and maybe only pick 2 at a time.

For the truckers hitch (I was told it was wagoneers hitch, same thing though), it is a pulley system without the pulleys - handy to know. Where the pulling rope doubles back on itself you can often hold that in place with the thumb while you tie it off with the other hand. Anyway point I was going to make, depending on the rope, daisy chaining them together I've found that the first /earlier hitches can double back too tightly and bind the rope if you add more anchored to the same point. If possible I'll have an anchor point for each hitch to so that the pulling end isn't doubled back too tightly. Remembering that the same force applies at each end, I've known a single anchor to pull out before what I to tension fails. Tended to think something like each additional hitch doesn't double the available force due to frictions, only adds something like half as much again. Dead handy though.

Someone said highwayman's hitch. I used to have a double pulley set up on a 15m ish bit of 6/7mm that I used as a retrievable redirect for double rope. Very satisfying.

Radium release hitch is a pretty fun thing to have in the tool kit. A pair of pears and a few metres of 8mm. Used for taking the strain off a system to pass a knot through a device or to switch a load onto a different rope.

Thats it, thanks. That secondary pull is clever, I’ll use that.

The farmer's knot/circus bowline that I've just learned to tie and will probably use for midline winch attachment is going to be a bugger to apply this rule to. What a horrible shape.

what I do Sit four bags on oversized pallet put a rope round to stabilise them shift them with compact tractor and pallet forks. wont lift them into a trailer thou not high enough lift gets them up off the ground as well which is a bonus

What kit have you already got? Would a machine do other jobs in your life? Skidsteer, articulating loader or tractor can move bags and do other things. Even a digger.

You'll need a rough terrain forklift, not cheap to be honest as you'll need something like a Ausa.

Stubby listening to Enya following a lifetime of ported chainsaws and motorcycle racing.

Hi all, I’m well on with getting 26t split n bagged into barrow bags. My intention is to stick the bags in the bottom field once I’ve extended the driveway down that far. I’ll be hardcore mot with chipping on. When I get round to moving them I’m not sure what’ll be best. I’m thinking a second hand forklift but I’m not sure how well the work on hardcore. Anyone any advice of the best kit. I could always just use the big car with a trailer on but that’s a lot of loading unloading and my back ain’t the best tbh. And if I do end up selling them I’ll need to load the trailer easier too. But then I’ve seen trailers with lifting cranes on. All so confusing and any advice appreciated.

Spoke to Dutch lady today. They eat rhubarb as a vegetable not a ‘fruit’ boiled down into a compote then eaten with meat and another veg

Eff Me ! That is some serious kit Stubby.

Isn’t it under warranty?

Garlic.... I broke one up from the supermarket years ago and planted that - the bulbs have never grown large but I am guessing I have about 50 of them growing just now from that single bulb. However Mrs P doesn't do garlic so it is destined to grow and grow, same with the horseradish, planted a piece from the supermarket and last year dug up a 1m long root - and again, Mrs P doesn't do horseradish (however, Garlic and Horseradish on a Sunday roast.. I can go with that)... same with the gooseberries... anything useful that she likes do nothing (carrots, beetroots, normal potatoes (the weird ones did well)...). I suspect the veggie patch just doesn't like her.

But do you know the Fucktard?

I think I’ll settle for handbag.

Gasket hitch/coil.