Which worked out that each bulk bag would take an one hour and twenty seven minutes (1hr 27mins) to shift. It was near enough 90 feet to the (soon to be) fake grassed area, and we both agreed it would probably take us 5-6 minutes to fill each of our two buckets, walk to the fake grass area, empty the buckets and come back. The only problem was how long would it take? The bulk bags that were delivered to the property each weighed an 850kg.Ĭrunching the numbers we worked out that it would take 56 buckets to transfer 850kg to the back of the house. That’s a total of 30kg moved at any one a time! In the UK, a standard bucket has a max load carrying weight of 15kg.
#Bags of gravel how to#
We were racking our brains thinking how to move gravel without a wheelbarrow.Īnd that’s when the light bulb hit…What about using two buckets!
We discussed hiring a conveyor belt (very expensive) to building our own pulley crane system (ridiculous). Ideas started flying about how we could get the stone up to the top the easiest, quickest and the safest way. We did try this route with a wheel barrow, which was scarily dangerous and very time consuming.
Figuring out how to move gravel without a wheelbarrow can cause you to think of the craziest ideas, when the most straight forward idea is the best idea.Įarly this week I had a job to move a bulk bag of gravel from the front of a house to the back of a house, across some scaffold boards, up some concrete steps to where eventually a fake grass area will be laid.
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