Pretty Cool...My Coal Stacked Itself!!

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Post by kennydinmich » Mon. Aug. 03, 2015 12:14 am

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.

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Post by unhippy » Mon. Aug. 03, 2015 3:38 am

lol....thats cool....however..... lets see you do that with a bulk delivery :D

 
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Post by blrman07 » Mon. Aug. 03, 2015 7:17 am

Serendipity type discoveries are the neatest you can have. Now you know how to stack bagged coal and save time and effort!! :lol: 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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Post by coaledsweat » Mon. Aug. 03, 2015 7:37 am

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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Post by Lightning » Mon. Aug. 03, 2015 7:41 am

Slides are handy! I use a saucer sled to haul my 100 pound ash can to the ash dump. :lol:

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Post by kennydinmich » Mon. Aug. 03, 2015 1:24 pm

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!!


 
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Post by Logs » Mon. Aug. 03, 2015 2:17 pm

Hey lightning , I use a toboggan sometimes to move firewood and it works great. American ingenuity at its best. By the way , nice pants :up: :clap:

 
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Post by Lightning » Mon. Aug. 03, 2015 3:33 pm

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 :up: :clap:
Thanks lol.. I do my best work in my pajamas. :lol:

 
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Post by lsayre » Mon. Aug. 03, 2015 6:08 pm

Lightning wrote:I use a saucer sled to haul my 100 pound ash can to the ash dump. :lol:
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.

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