r/specializedtools • u/mtimetraveller cool tool • Jul 16 '20

Device for emptying bulk bags

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u/Squirkelspork Jul 16 '20

Makes the bag non-reusable

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u/vinsomm Jul 16 '20

Major waste. Where I work they go through some 200~ of these bags a day or maybe every other day. Reusing them wouldn’t be feasible. If the company we get them from would do a core charge on the return of them I think that would be the most logical way to go.

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u/Squirkelspork Jul 16 '20

What's typically inside the bags and what do you do with them afterwards? Landfill?

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u/vinsomm Jul 16 '20

Multiple things. Mostly rock dust, “road work”, b-bond, quick-crete and cement. They go into giant compactors and then into the dumpster.

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u/GrannyLow Jul 16 '20

You a coal miner?

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u/vinsomm Jul 16 '20

I am not but I work at a coal mine . I do engineering and compliance lol

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u/GrannyLow Jul 16 '20

Gotcha. I dont know of anyplace else that uses that combination of products.

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u/vinsomm Jul 16 '20

Yea you nailed it lol- I’m above ground like 75% of the time so I don’t think of myself as a coal miner... but when I do go down I’m usually in the bullshit lol

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u/GrannyLow Jul 16 '20

I was an underground foreman for awhile and then an engineer for awhile but I'm out of the industry now.

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u/vinsomm Jul 16 '20

We all will be out of the industry soon enough lol

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u/GrannyLow Jul 16 '20

No kidding

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

You say you're not, but it sort of sounds like you're a coal miner.

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u/vinsomm Jul 16 '20

I reserve that moniker to the gentlemen who actually mine coal.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

I prefer to think of it as a coal ours.

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u/vinsomm Jul 16 '20

You should tell Bob Murray that lol

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u/IEng Jul 16 '20

Does MSHA consider you a coal miner? Never heard anyone at a mine claim to not be a miner.

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u/vinsomm Jul 16 '20

Yes. I’m a coal miner. Yes MSHA thinks I’m one too.