804 stone moving options

caoimhe_kelly

I've to get 5 tonnes of 804 stone into my back garden for a sub base. I've a standard pedestrian/bins access into the back garden in an estate built a few years ago. My plan was to get it delivered in bags and have them dropped into the back garden. However the distance from the road to it's nearest point in my back garden is about 8 meters. Would a truck's mounted crane or grab reach that far? If not has anyone a good hack for easily moving or getting the stone into the back garden!

geographica

unlikely to reach that far

I’d say max around 4 metres

have it tipped loose and wheelbarrow it in

surprisingly 804 “lifts” well and is handy enough to shift

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058418924/804-stone-moving-options

Had to do similar myself recently, thankfully 3 tonnes rather than 5.

No option for me other than wheelbarrow & shovel and many, many trips back and forth. Laborious and a pain in the hole when you're not used to it (which I am definitely not), but little other choice.

I doubt there's any real option other than that. The truck's crane arm is usually just for lifting it off the truck and putting it on the ground nearby. It's unlikely (assuming you're in a semi-detached property given you mentioned pedestrian/bin access) that the truck will be able to angle well enough to even get it halfway down the side access for you, and they may be unwilling to take the risk considering the chances of damaging fencing or even the wall of the house.

Odds are they'll drop the bags onto your front driveway, and that's them done.

I've seen clips where people will at least get a bag dropped on top of another bag, then use a small bit of PVC pipe cut and shoved into the top bag so the material in the top bag drops into the wheelbarrow. Then you push the pipe upwards so it stops until you come back for the next load. It'll at least take some of the shovelling out of the equation. That's the only tip I know of though.

SodiumCooled

It will depend on the hiab reach available - 8m is not out of the question by any means but it would be on the limit of some of the more standard ones. Being able to actually let down the load could be an issue too it might reach but if the wall or fence was high it could prevent lowering the the bag to the ground. You will have to measure accurately and ask who every you are buying from.

Your best bet is probably someone who also sells blocks as they will have hefty hiabs with good reach and used to swinging them up onto second floors of houses and in over things.

kabakuyu

It's not a good hack that you need,it's a good back.

Jacovs

https://www.kdmhire.com/product/portable-site-conveyors/

See if anyone near you rent similar out, get it for a day. Probably need more than 1 depending on the distance through your gate. So might not be cost effective for a home project.

Hooked

I've moved 2 tonnes recently - had them dropped in bags as I didn't want the 804 mixing with the gravel in the drive… PAIN in the ass to shovel from a bag (of course you could cut the bag, I couldn't) - I'd deffo get it dropped loose if the grab ain't gonna reach.

Try get some mates or family to give you a 'dig out'… no pun intended. Many hands and all that…

caoimhe_kelly

Thanks all. Unfortunately these were not the answers I hoped for but were the answers I kind of expected!

enricoh

Forget about ton bags, just get it tipped loose, spread it out over 3 evenings b n u won't be in a hoop. Heat gone out of the day by then

Daniel son

Hire a mini dumper. Will fit down the standard side of house pathway.

caoimhe_kelly

Update: By chance there was a lad with a truck and hiab lifting a mini digger very near my house. Asked him would he be able to help. Said he could reach into back garden no problem. The loads and reach of his hiab (fassi f660) look very impressive...

He offered to either collect the bags from the builders providers or alternatively do the lift if I get the bags delivered

looksee

That's the kind of fortuitous find that you cannot guarantee or often search for. If it works out, you got lucky! That's great, sometimes it happens - I have had a few of those lucky chance things happen, its great when it does.

ted1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123618762#Comment_123618762

a very good ending.
in was going to say there’s about 14 wheelbarrows in a 1 tonne bag. So it’d only be 70 round trips.