Stacking Arb bags of logs

[gensetsteve]

I found the secret is make sure the bag is flat on the floor when you start filling. When the bag is nearly full lift the handles with the forklift and bounce to settle. If you start filling the bag in the air held with the handles the bottom bulges and you will never stack them safely.

[Alycidon]

I found the secret is make sure the bag is flat on the floor when you start filling. When the bag is nearly full lift the handles with the forklift and bounce to settle. If you start filling the bag in the air held with the handles the bottom bulges and you will never stack them safely.

 

That is partially true in my experiance. They certainly bulge out the bottom but bouncing them with a teleporter soon settles them back to where they should be.

 

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[Goaty]

Fair point - I had assumed that the material was stretching,but if not the volume stays the same I guess.

I was thinking about filling the bags within a wooden metre cube frame,just to keep the loads consistent if nothing else,I always say they are loose filled

 

When I have enough ply I cover the filled bags with a sheet of 8x4 over two bags and stack on top of this,which gives me better results then bag on bag!

 

Ive had same Idea, just need to do it. I reckon 71 x 71 cm internal by 1m tall will give 1/2 cube and fit most 2nd hand builders bags.

 

Sit board frame inside bag.

Fill to top pull bag up

Lift boards out, Maybe need holes in top of board to put bar through to lift if awkward.

[smiles]

Ive had same Idea, just need to do it. I reckon 71 x 71 cm internal by 1m tall will give 1/2 cube and fit most 2nd hand builders bags.

 

Sit board frame inside bag.

Fill to top pull bag up

Lift boards out, Maybe need holes in top of board to put bar through to lift if awkward.

 

Yep,same idea,but I was thinking of having the box on the outside of the cube bags,bagssuspended from a frame on the foreloader,fill top top and then lift the bag out of the box,the box will need to be anchored to the floor to stop the bag gripping the inside of the box on the way up!

 

But had a look at the stretch in the bags yesterday and Alycidon is absolutely right - they don't,so probably won't bother!

[Alycidon]

Filling bags on a frame is not a good idea. Put the bag onto the forks of whatever you are using to lift it, put as much in as you can, bounce, top off, bounce and store.

 

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[Chris Gagen]

The bags do need shaking to firm them up enough to stack properly. See my thread titled Stop giving your logs away about shaking the bags and the volume this makes though...

 

1 bag directly on top of another, make a row of double stacked bags like this at the back and another row of the same in front. For the third layer I use a standard pallet with a piece of 12mm ply nailed to the bottom. This increases the strength of the pallet and makes picking it up again easier as the logs from the top of the second layer aren't poking into the bottom of the pallet where your forks need to go. This top layer should be placed half on the back row and half on the next row, locking everything together. Also half way in from the end of the row, so if you have a back row of 3 double stacked bags and a second row of 3 double stacked bags then you can fit 2 bags on pallets on top.

[Alycidon]

The bags do need shaking to firm them up enough to stack properly. See my thread titled Stop giving your logs away about shaking the bags and the volume this makes though...

 

1 bag directly on top of another, make a row of double stacked bags like this at the back and another row of the same in front. For the third layer I use a standard pallet with a piece of 12mm ply nailed to the bottom. This increases the strength of the pallet and makes picking it up again easier as the logs from the top of the second layer aren't poking into the bottom of the pallet where your forks need to go. This top layer should be placed half on the back row and half on the next row, locking everything together. Also half way in from the end of the row, so if you have a back row of 3 double stacked bags and a second row of 3 double stacked bags then you can fit 2 bags on pallets on top.

 

Stacking directly onto the floor, dont you get issues with damp from the ground. I start on some very strong pallets to get air under them.

 

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