Storing road salt

[Guss109]

I'd be carefull I've seen salt stored in a warehouse and was surprised by the amount of leakage that happened through the bulk bag

[Stephen Blair]

The salt will be dried out inside a warm factory for 2 weeks, so all residue will drop out onto a concrete floor and cleaned up, then I'll wrap it like Graham suggested and store outside and bring it in on the forklift and into the container for the minimum time.

Thanks guys, this has really helped.

[Gnome]

I keep a couple of ton bags on pallets outside (red and white) with pallets round them and a tarp on top. Keeps them tidy and still accessible when the need arises. I used to keep smaller amounts indoors but found, as stated already that tools close by had noticeable amounts of rust. Also it was a pain moving them if I needing the good storage space for something else.

 

Also in shipping container it will be a pain to load up a gritter/barrow and you will also get a fair amount of salt everywhere no matter how careful you are. Just my experiences though!. PLUS we might not need it for a couple of years, depending on the weather. (here's hoping as I HATE doing the roads)

[Stephen Blair]

I've got a pallet barrow and the container floor is smooth. So I'll be moving it back and forward to the doors. It's just a spreadex spreader, so 15 shovels a load, x3 and it's job done. It will be swept up every time it's used, but I know what your saying. I'll try it this way as filling the grit bins around the site by hand, and then shoveling them out again is double handling!

If the salt is damp it just clogs up.

[Gnome]

I've got a pallet barrow and the container floor is smooth. So I'll be moving it back and forward to the doors. It's just a spreadex spreader, so 15 shovels a load, x3 and it's job done. It will be swept up every time it's used, but I know what your saying. I'll try it this way as filling the grit bins around the site by hand, and then shoveling them out again is double handling!

If the salt is damp it just clogs up.

 

 

With the pallet barra and smooth floor you are laughing. Santa ain't that good to me so I have to spread the olde fashioned way. The stuff is worse than sawdust for getting into nooks and crannies and then doing the nasty on stuff. You're right, the less handling the better. If this is for your place up north you might need waaaaay more. Sunny Largs doesn't get that cold surely.

[Stephen Blair]

No it's a local contract I have, didn't use much last year, need to fine tune the operation though.

 

 

 

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