So...i picked up my first ton of the 4 I ordered from TSC. I brought it home and tried out my new method for getting it into the basement. I had went to Menards the day before and purchased a kids slippery slide, you know, one of those bright yellow plastic slides made for kids to slide down. It cost $65. I put one end on the tailgate and the other into the basement window. Then I unloaded the pallet by throwing them down the slide and it worked like a dream. The slide is so slippery and they just fly down as fast as I could throw them. Great system. So much easier than carrying them all into the basement and handling them 2 or 3 times.
But here is the cool part.....when I went into the basement after I was done they had stacked themselves up!!! I was amazed to see this!
No...its not the neatest stacking job....lol...but as you can see from the picture it almost looks like I stacked them myself.
Believe me....this picture is exactly as I found them.
Not only that.....after I knocked this stack over to unload the 2nd pallet.....it did the same thing again! I just thought it was cool.
Pretty Cool...My Coal Stacked Itself!!
Serendipity type discoveries are the neatest you can have. Now you know how to stack bagged coal and save time and effort!! Post a photo of the slide. It might have other purposes when it's repurposed. Umm why wouldn't it also make a good ramp for offloading bulk coal with a shovel from a truck?
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I've been doing that a few years now. I put the slide at the bottom step and use a 2X4 in the doorway to lock a cart to the slide bottom. Slide 5 bags down and they self load on the cart, off to the pile, next.
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Next time I get a pallet....likely this week sometime...i will take pics of the slide.
It really does work great. I literally unloaded an entire pallet of 50 bags in less than 10 minutes.
And I am almost 57 and was so happy this worked! No trip to the chiropractor after!!
It really does work great. I literally unloaded an entire pallet of 50 bags in less than 10 minutes.
And I am almost 57 and was so happy this worked! No trip to the chiropractor after!!
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Hey lightning , I use a toboggan sometimes to move firewood and it works great. American ingenuity at its best. By the way , nice pants
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Thanks lol.. I do my best work in my pajamas.Logs wrote:Hey lightning , I use a toboggan sometimes to move firewood and it works great. American ingenuity at its best. By the way , nice pants
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Before I started bagging it and sending it out with the trash pick-up I did something quite similar. Only I stacked my ash tubs onto the saucer sled.Lightning wrote:I use a saucer sled to haul my 100 pound ash can to the ash dump.