Portable/lightweight/folding bulk bag frame - any suggesions?

[clwyd environmental]

Hi, we use a cut down IPC tank. We removed the top & bottom of the tank, cut out the front and then cut into the top edge four openings for handles.

 

Remove all the sharp edges with a file and then simply fit into a dumpy bag.

it will hold the shape of the bag and allow you to fill it, then simply lift the IPC insert out of the bag and start all over.

 

Costs hardly anything, is robust and can be folded over each other for carrying and storage, we also use a twenty litre drum for doing net bags as well, same principle but we only remove the top & bottom. We are not firewood merchant so it suits our needs fine. Hope to post some pictures latter this weekend.

Hope this helps.

[Alycidon]

As has been said, filling them into a static bag results in under filling them by quite a lot (est 25%). We now fill in to the bag whilst its hanging on a round bale handler on a tractor front loader so its just touching the floor. We then shake it at about 75% full & again at 95% till it wont settle any more. The bags are now very solid, square & stable.

 

But due to side bulges its now holding 1.1cube !!, its the way i do it as well.

 

Bags are not that stable even when that full, I had one kamikazie off the side of a trailer last summer when going accross a field, my fault, not on perfectly and a small ridge.

 

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[difflock]

I though the "X" frame as posted by Treemon was the simplest, most practical solution.

And dead easy to get fabricated or weld up oneself.

I found this to be a surprisingly difficuly one to "ad hoc" a solution to on a windy day, being like others as mentioned a "one tractor" man.

But I made the decision to billet and bundle, for onward handling by forklift mounted bale forks.

Until I get an Avant.

[truncator]

We have built this

[gensetsteve]

In the end my solution to this problem was to buy a cheap 1 tonne all terrain forklift. The bags fill so fast you may as well leave the engine running. Our forklift now has a blown head gasket so given some proper work it overheats we have run some big hours on it. Left ticking over all day it uses less than a gallon 3 cylinder ku boat diesel. For this job I have not found a better way of doing it and will shortly be fitting a new gasket.

[Ashes_Firewood]

Hi, we use a cut down IPC tank. We removed the top & bottom of the tank, cut out the front and then cut into the top edge four openings for handles.

 

Remove all the sharp edges with a file and then simply fit into a dumpy bag.

it will hold the shape of the bag and allow you to fill it, then simply lift the IPC insert out of the bag and start all over.

 

Costs hardly anything, is robust and can be folded over each other for carrying and storage, we also use a twenty litre drum for doing net bags as well, same principle but we only remove the top & bottom. We are not firewood merchant so it suits our needs fine. Hope to post some pictures latter this weekend.

Hope this helps.

 

That would be good thanks.

[codlasher]

I use four pieces of tower scaffold. It's important to tie the loops to the top with light line though then you can undo them and then move the tower pieces to the next bag position. I can just fill four m3 bags this way with the conveyor at its limit in either direction.

codlasher

[difflock]

Gensetsteve, define "cheap", and what sorta a bit o kit is a 1 tonne rough terrain forklift.

Curious I might have missed or overlooked sommat.

Marcus

[gensetsteve]

Gensetsteve, define "cheap", and what sorta a bit o kit is a 1 tonne rough terrain forklift.

Curious I might have missed or overlooked sommat.

Marcus

 

Brinkman bri truck £800 but cost me about another £600 in parts and labour to get it working. After it had been through the workshop and had a wash and a new seat it looked massively better. Its had about 2 years hard use and the head gasket has gone on the Kubota engine we will spend the money as its such a useful economical little truck. Ok on dirt in the summer but mud in the winter forget it.

[difflock]

Well bless my soul!

I larned sommat new today.

First time I have seen such a contraption.

PS

Since I was pricing up an Avant 635/640 for work today, hey! owt less that 25/30k is well cheap.