Rethink required, billet bundles are too heavy

[briquette_seller]

I find if you lift the bundles with a grab, rather than with the forklift, they sit a lot better.

The ones lifted by the forklift always seem to lean one way.

 

Pre tensioning before putting the banding also helps get them real tight.

 

Nice work

[difflock]

Ah hav a plan to use the 17 tonne splitter downstroke to, via a wire strop, to "winch" the bundle down tight before strapping, in which case I could possibly get away with using blue rope, with or *without those clever patented plastic german Knotti thingamabobs.

*Without simply by throwing on a farmers hitch with a flick of the back of the wrist.

But got plenty of polyproplene strapping to use first.

Just need to up productivity:blushing:

[briquette_seller]

I find the Knotti difficult to get tight, even pre tensioning.

Its a wee bit of a faff as well, I find.

 

Cant beat the proper strapping machine.

[Logsnstuff]

I find the Knotti difficult to get tight, even pre tensioning.

Its a wee bit of a faff as well, I find.

 

Cant beat the proper strapping machine.

 

are you using buckles that you can re tension or just the crimps.

[briquette_seller]

The buckles.

Crimps are too unpredictable.

[mendiplogs]

I cut the container into 2 to make little roofs. These overlap on all sides so shed most of the water. Agree that emptying them is the weakest link unless you have a rotator on the forks.

 

Hi wood do you still use the empty for roof like this and how do you cut them thanks Jon

[difflock]

Having opened 4 bundles in the shed to use, I found them still to be remarkedly tight in the polyester strapping.

I also figger if I simply incorporate a length of BT ducting in the middle of the billet bundle, a bale spike will lift them perfectly, and without distortion, this allows for a smaller capacity handler, since less grab weight, and I can also stack them higher, since not lifting from above.

Also makes it feasible to easily load into vans for handy cash sales

A proper win-win

[richy_B]

......I simply incorporate a length of BT ducting in the middle of the billet bundle, a bale spike will lift them perfectly, and without distortion, this allows for a smaller capacity handler, since less grab weight, and I can also stack them higher, since not lifting from above......

 

I like that. Sounds like a great way of doing it.

[gdh]

Having opened 4 bundles in the shed to use, I found them still to be remarkedly tight in the polyester strapping.

I also figger if I simply incorporate a length of BT ducting in the middle of the billet bundle, a bale spike will lift them perfectly, and without distortion, this allows for a smaller capacity handler, since less grab weight, and I can also stack them higher, since not lifting from above.

Also makes it feasible to easily load into vans for handy cash sales

A proper win-win

Just a thought, if you used the cardboard tubes that come in the middle of sillage wrap you could them to and there's alot lying around at farms who wrap bales.

[difflock]

Ah! ah wis thinking about cardboard tubes from carpet rolls etc

but

bloody hell!

BINGO

How the cardboard will survive the drying/seasoning process though, though perhaps all is needed is a temporary "former" to keep the billets in-situ until strapped tight.

Certainly worth a try

Thanks gdh