Big bag lifters

[lloyd]

looking at Taylor,Albutt and Cherry .
Any one got any user feedback?

 

[Magnus Oyke]

looking at Taylor,Albutt and Cherry .
Any one got any user feedback?

I can't remeber the brand of the one we have off hand, it's got hydraulically adjustable arms/tines, which you want, but the arms are sort of square, so the bags can snag. If you can find one with the arms with a smooth, torpedo shape to them, that would probably be much better. What ever you buy, they're miles better than using pallet forks.

 

[Welderloon]

Adjustable width are better if the budget suits.
All of them will be safer than pallet tines & better for unloading curtain sider.

Also CERES, Strimech, Concept Engineering, Murray Machinery & Proforge

 

[Fergieman]

This popped up on Facebook today.

 

[bobk]

looking at Taylor,Albutt and Cherry .
Any one got any user feedback?

What's wrong with pallet tines ?

 

[Fergieman]

What's wrong with pallet tines ?

Headroom in low curtainsiders
Sharp edges
Slide off the front
No lower backplate to stop bags swinging and hitting tyres

All can be avoided but if your lifting alot of bags a bag lifter is so much easier and safer.

 

[lloyd]

What's wrong with pallet tines ?

Potentially dangerous and I'm no cat.

 

[bobk]

Potentially dangerous and I'm no cat.

dangerous .. are you serious

 

[lloyd]

dangerous ...are you serious

Yes if the bags slide .

 

[bobk]

Yes if the bags slide .

That's operator error / incompetence

 

[Badshot]

That's operator error / incompetence

The recommendation on the bag is all pallet forks should be sleeved.
A bag lifter negates that as they're not sharp edged.
If anything happened whilst ignoring the recommendations then the buck stops with you.
And it's a million times easier to unload a curtainsider with a bag lift.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

Headroom in low curtainsiders
Sharp edges
Slide off the front
No lower backplate to stop bags swinging and hitting tyres

All can be avoided but if your lifting alot of bags a bag lifter is so much easier and safer.

No opinion on this thread but I've seen a couple of sets of tines were the back plate has been slightly modified to enable the times to be turned upside down which helps on clearance

 

[Dman2]

we have a one from Concept engineering
It`s ok but I have damaged the odd bag with the back plate. Must be a sharp edge somewhere
They are fairly local to me so thought I would give them a try

 

[Old apprentice]

Got a young welder to make a bag lifter the armed are made of 8 mm walled rounded box I just wondered if they are strong enough so I opens each end and put a 80 x 20 and a 40 x20 strip steel in each side and welded all ends up .

 

[Scragger]

We’ve got a strimech, the tubes are rectangular with arrow head points which is handy for popping in loops, one thing I’d say is definitely get the adjustable width version if the budget allows it!

 

[bobk]

The recommendation on the bag is all pallet forks should be sleeved.
A bag lifter negates that as they're not sharp edged.
If anything happened whilst ignoring the recommendations then the buck stops with you.
And it's a million times easier to unload a curtainsider with a bag lift.

They load the waggons with pallet tines

 

[lloyd]

We’ve got a strimech, the tubes are rectangular with arrow head points which is handy for popping in loops, one thing I’d say is definitely get the adjustable width version if the budget allows it!

Quite like the look of the Strimech Pro hydraulic version.

 

[Punch]

As already said get an adjustable bag lifter if budget allows. We’ve had a Cherry for a few years and it’s great but rounded back rest is too wide if stacking different fert next to each other. Use it for putting seed in drill and gives so much more reach. Safer with boom out too.

 

[Lexion1000]

What kind of price range are the hydraulic adjustable ones?

I need to get one. look like the kind of piece of equipment you buy and then wonder why you hadn’t done it earlier.

 

[Happy]

Got a Weaving one here. Very well made & no worries about hitting the roof on a curtain sider but far harder to see the ends of your tines to put them through the bag loops on a lorry than it is with pallet forks. Have to tilt them downwards at 45 degrees to see the ends of them which makes picking up 4 at a time much harder than with forks.

Picking them up at ground level no issue. Just crowd up until you see tips of tines.