Grain Segregation: Lego Blocks Instead of Freestanding Dividers

[Robert]

Are lego blocks a realistic / practical option? Want to go up to 4m high. Cheaper to buy / more of a faff to move / reposition but arguably more flexible / redeployable in the long run? Thanks

 

[Farmer Roy]

Are you serious about Lego ( as in the little plastic blocks ) blocks going 4 m high ?

1 - have you considered how many blocks you would need ? It would be in the millions . . .

2 - the structural integrity of lego over that distance & the side forces applied to them ??

 

[Farmer Roy]

James May building a lego house springs to mind
Seems he had a lot of technical challenges to overcome

 

[Bongodog]

 

[snarling bee]

I'm not sure I would go 4m high with lego blocks and put 4m of grain against them. You perhaps need to check the loading with the manufacturer.

 

[snarling bee]

Are you serious about Lego ( as in the little plastic blocks ) blocks going 4 m high ?

1 - have you considered how many blocks you would need ? It would be in the millions . . .

2 - the structural integrity of lego over that distance & the side forces applied to them ??

There you are - business opportunity in Aus. Or do you just call them something different?

 

[Farmer Roy]

There you are - business opportunity in Aus. Or do you just call them something different?

never seen or heard of them before. I genuinely thought he meant the toy blocks . . .

we generally don’t segregate grain in sheds as such like that, but use silos / bins

I will back out now

carry on . . .

 

[David.]

My observation is that they take up a fair bit of room and would have to be moved annually to shift the bugs? Not cheap either when I asked, haulage is a bit of a killer.

 

[Woldgrain Storage]

We use them for retaining screenings sometimes, but wouldn't want 100s of tonnes of wheat pushing in one direction.

Might work as a divider between two bulks, as long as each side was filled and emptied equally.

 

[Andy26]

That's 3.6m high, very heavy and very strong.

Th

 

[David.]

Whose blocks are they?

 

[Andy26]

Whose blocks are they?

Elite Precast.

https://www.eliteprecast.co.uk/

 

[db9go]

We have them and they work very well and we find them very safe just follow the manufactures advice
And we have one set of chains of the correct strength to move them and they are not used for any thing ells

 

[Classichay]

Besblock Telford - use them at work to hold back hundreds of tones of compost which is regularity re handled. They’re fine. I find those A dividers can shift and slide with weight on them, the shape of them like a wedge wants to push away if they’re not anchored.