Bull Bags? Thoughts

[2manyrocks]

I'd like an inexpensive solution under $100 that I can put on a 3pt boom pole to carefully fill some forms without spilling much concrete. I actually have a poly barrel that I cut and rolled into a cone to drag logs, but have no idea how I'd cap the end of it to hold the concrete in the cone until I was ready to pour it?

I'm working with bag concrete that I mix in an electric cement mixer.

 

[paulsharvey]

The way I picture using this, if I'm not looking at it wrong, chain it to boom pole, lower assembly near mixer, and have a pull cord attached to that handle. Once you dump from mixer to bucket, you would lift/position the boom pole and bucket, and pull in the pull cord to dump into the block?

 

[2manyrocks]

Maybe I could take a poly bag made for sandbags and use it as a discharge chute on the end of the poly cone by cutting out the closed end of the bag? I could roll it up to hold the concrete in the cone and then let it loose to discharge it. But I need to figure out a way to hold the poly bag onto the poly cone. Maybe a ratchet strap?

Cheapskate's concrete hopper....

 

[2manyrocks]

What might work better would be something to plug the cone from the inside that I could pull out on a chain from the top? Maybe a circular steel plate with some guides welded to center the plug in the cone when it is near the bottom of the cone?

 

[paulsharvey]

How ghetto is too ghetto? Take a traffic cone, and screw it to the bottom of a 5 gal bucket; jigsaw most a 8" hole in bottom of buelcket; and tie a piece of paracord to a tennis ball. Place tennis ball in cone, with string hanging out; boom, one way value, activated by the simple pull of the cord.

 

[5030]

I actually own a 3 bag PTO driven, self dumping concrete mixer I picked up at a farm auction, years ago and it is very handy. Think I paid like 30 bucks for it. Fits on the 3 point and you regulate the dump action by adjusting the top link. Sure beats hand mixing concrete which is, far as I'm concerned, pure drudgery.

 

[Gregster613]

I actually own a 3 bag PTO driven, self dumping concrete mixer I picked up at a farm auction, years ago and it is very handy. Think I paid like 30 bucks for it. Fits on the 3 point and you regulate the dump action by adjusting the top link. Sure beats hand mixing concrete which is, far as I'm concerned, pure drudgery.

5030, Have you any pictures of that unit? It does sound handy; I'd like to know what it looks like in case I ever find something like that to acquire. Thanks Greg

 

[newbury]

5030, Have you any pictures of that unit? It does sound handy; I'd like to know what it looks like in case I ever find something like that to acquire. Thanks Greg

not 5030 but 5 cubic foot:

https://www.northerntool.com/products/nortrac-3-pt-pto-cement-mixer-5-cubic-ft-51465

 

[Gem99ultra]

I bought 2 Bull Bags of mulch; 1300# each bag. I was a little off on my thinking. Way too heavy for my little Kubota L3400 to lift. I had to nickle & dime each one t about 1/2 full before I could move them around. They are very well made though. Surprisingly, the two hand straps are plenty strong enough to pick up a fully loaded bad with the tractor forks. I'll be keeping these two for future uses.

 

[paulsharvey]

I bought 2 Bull Bags of mulch; 1300# each bag. I was a little off on my thinking. Way too heavy for my little Kubota L3400 to lift. I had to nickle & dime each one t about 1/2 full before I could move them around. They are very well made though. Surprisingly, the two hand straps are plenty strong enough to pick up a fully loaded bad with the tractor forks. I'll be keeping these two for future uses.

That sounds like a perfect use of them; a bulky, fairly light material. Would make transporting mulch, compost, manure, without a dump trailer much easier.

I do wish I had a pallet sized large enough to hold the Bull Bag, but it's something like 5.5ft square roughly