New Chip bay panels

[Dean Lofthouse]

I'm building a new chip bay which will be huge, something like 30m long by 6m wide. One of the walls I have to build will be retaining a 4ft banking and I have spotted these panels

 

Dale Crete - Concrete Products and Ready Mix. Supplying the whole of the UK from our head office in Leek, Staffordshire

 

A 6m x 1m x 150mm panel is about £225 which I reckon will be cheaper and quicker than building a concrete block wall

 

Has anyone ever used them, the only downside I reckon is I'll have to crane them into place, I'm planning on sinking in some RSJ's then slotting the panels between so the bay will be 5 panels long and 1 panel wide, if I'm savvy and put in long rsj's I could even stick a roof over the chip bay

[ecolojim]

if you're not bothered about putting a roof on, how about the precast concrete 'A frame' thingies that they put around various heaps countrywide? for one thing theyre a simple solution, they're self supporting.

our local composting plant just shut down and the farmers had all their stocks for their sugar beet

[Rupe]

I've seen it done with railway sleepers slotted into RSJ's. Don't know if thats cheaper of not.

[Stephen Blair]

are you concreting the floor aswell?

[Dean Lofthouse]

I'll be concreteing floor yes.

 

I think railway sleepers are quite dear at the mo Rupe

 

Whats these a frame things Jim?

[treequip]

Helped on one of these a while back, actually I got a call to fix the disk saw and got roped in.

 

Easy peasy went together like a good un.

 

RSJ’s in first lifted the panels in with a tele handler

[ecolojim]

there are these

 

 

but there are also some with straight sides, that when viewed from the side are truly A shaped obviously with a flat bottom, and as such are more hollow. the principle being weight against them is also weight in the vertical which holds them more securely downward also.

 

theres a couple of companies advertising them in farmers weekly, but like i say, theyre not too difficult to come by from waste handlers, docks, ports etc

 

will find a photo of the ones im really on about

[ecolojim]

[Hawthorn]

I'm planning on sinking in some RSJ's then slotting the panels between

 

Dean, ones that I helped a farmer with were fixed with a plate to the RSJs so that the conc panels were totally flush and butted up to each other. Smooth walls, nothing for the loader to catch on and break.

 

All you need do is use a shield anchor on the 'outside' of the panel and bolt plates that clamp to the back of the RSJ.

 

Easy and quick, you even end up with some flexibility in spacing, long enough plates will allow you to be a couple of inches out.

 

Will find out his supplier and try to take a pic or two on tues if you want.

[kev_s]

If you want cheap railway sleepers call mark at sevenoaks sleepers (google will find the details).

 

He's cheap and a good supplier.

 

Kev