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The down side to crates is the unloading

Yeah often wondered how this was achieved, other then the crate being dropped off to the customer like a vent bag and leaving it for them to deal with? Surely constant manipulation with pallet forks on a front loader or fork lift will quickly damage the crates? Or is there a simpler way other then a rotating pallet fork head?

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Yeah often wondered how this was achieved, other then the crate being dropped off to the customer like a vent bag and leaving it for them to deal with? Surely constant manipulation with pallet forks on a front loader or fork lift will quickly damage the crates? Or is there a simpler way other then a rotating pallet fork head?

 

Still unloading them by hand but in the process of designing a contraption to tip them into the trailer. Yes manipulating them with the forks will bust them up unless very careful. It takes about 10 mins maybe 15 to empty by hand one into the trailer but for me I would rather do that than give away a £5 worth of sack.

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Still unloading them by hand but in the process of designing a contraption to tip them into the trailer. Yes manipulating them with the forks will bust them up unless very careful. It takes about 10 mins maybe 15 to empty by hand one into the trailer but for me I would rather do that than give away a £5 worth of sack.

 

The vented sacks have tipping loops for you to grab at the bottom, you just flip them off the side of the trailer/truck onto the customer's driveway, and keep the sack.

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Still unloading them by hand but in the process of designing a contraption to tip them into the trailer.

Sounds like a plan. Sure you have thought of this already - but if you could simply re-fabricate one of the sides of the crate to act like a top hinged swinging tail gate like you see on tipper trucks, and fix the pallet unit of the crate onto your front loader forks like you did for your hedge cutting basket contraption, and tilt your load over the waiting trailer. (haven't looked at an ibc unit up close and personal, so not entirely sure what parameters you have to play with?)

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Still unloading them by hand but in the process of designing a contraption to tip them into the trailer.

 

a local yard uses ibcs, they have a frame which they lift up and onto by forklift. its basically 8 steel uprights (2 per side of the ibc)

 

the frame is hinged and has a ram fitted for tilting

 

very quick for filling and controllable

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a local yard uses ibcs, they have a frame which they lift up and onto by forklift. its basically 8 steel uprights (2 per side of the ibc)

 

the frame is hinged and has a ram fitted for tilting

 

very quick for filling and controllable

 

Thanks woody

 

I am trying to visualize this. Is it a frame you put on the trailer with the crate on and then tip?

 

I have two ideas going around in my head one is what I think you have described and I recon if I can get the pivot in the right place I may be able to tip them by hand. The alternative idea is a fixed station that the crate gets loaded onto and then tipped with a chute to direct the logs into the middle of the trailer.

 

Rowan I don't think cutting the sides out of IBCs is a goer as they are not exactly over built. Also converting a 100 IBC sounds like a lot more work than a one off contraption and as you know I do like my contraptions :biggrin:

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