Conveyor, project to build one.....

[pedrobedro]

How about one of these, designed for the job and not complicated and you can run up a plank into a truck or skip.

 

[244t]

Yes...


Running a couple of the above on the job....


no fun are they though????

 

[Woody.v8]

The other way is to use a bottom roller drum made of strips so that there are holes in between that allows the soil to drop through and have air blasting through the centre to blast it out a little like this, but more open and with with open hubs that are also formed by strips, some potato conveyor are like that

I have repaired one tonight as it happens! The bearing had collapsed and chewed the shaft in half, welded the end on and built up with weld, and a bit of lathe work

 

[normspanners]

I have repaired one tonight as it happens!

Well there you go and me searching the net for a picture!!

 

[mechman]

We had a conveyor that was over a mile long that actually tracked round a corner using 36" belt. 300hp motors on it. Might be overkill for this project though

Was that at ALCAN, I worked there for a short time many moons ago, they also had some long ones at the Big E (I also worked there for a while for Balfours}

 

[blenkie1]

Same county, Blenkinsopp colliery near Haltwhistle. It was a drift mine opened around the 1700s. The miners must of followed the seam making a long sweeping corner so far down. We had to convert it from tubs to belt and figure how to get the belt to go around the corner. Had to be a bit of a compromise. Ran ok with coal on and was all over the place with nothing on. Interesting ride coming out!

 

[DanielW]

Scaffolding poles and a large oil drum on pulleys to suit the scaffold width.

 

[244t]

The riding on an empty belt on the way out of a mine sounds hair raising....

Called a couple more "hire shops" today no luck...

Could need to take a closer look at making one...

looked on ebay at angle drive reduction boxes...

I guess getting one to drive the shaft with the drive drum on is the difficult bit??

 

[awemawson]

I made one 33 years ago when I bought my last place, and had loads of skips to fill (*). All dead crude BUT IT DID THE JOB. Drive and idler rollers were sections of plywood with an iron pipe through the middle with clamping nuts at each end. Plywood was turned down on my lathe (Round head Colchester Student at the time) each with a 'crowning' - at a guess the width was 14", fat bit of the roller 6" tapering to 5.5 at the sides. Main construction was timber - mainly scaffold planks.

The 'belt' was a nasty bit of nylon carpet that we'd pulled out of the house, and for the life of me I cannot remember how I drove it. Seem to remember a right angle gear box and mains motor but it was a long time ago.

(*) we bought the place as a wreck (before Grand Designs!) - it was 10 bed sits and two one bedroom flats complete with dry rot, rising damp and wood worm, we returned it to being a detached seven bed roomed family house - a condition of my mortgage was to remove seven kitchens !!!!)

 

[DanielW]

How about one of these, designed for the job and not complicated and you can run up a plank into a truck or skip.

Yeah but you need some muscle to use it and after a few barra loads you tend to get tired and if not careful follow the barra in the skip.

 

[CompoSimmonite]

How about one of these, designed for the job and not complicated and you can run up a plank into a truck or skip.

Mine is a twin wheeled barrow - will never go back to single wheeled. Would be easy to add a small electric motor to either a single or twin wheeled

 

[CompoSimmonite]

What about a simple (railway type) track / channel with a small truck that is hauled along by a winch ?

 

[blenkie1]

Not trying to be all health and safety but if the project does come off watch the drive and return rollers they are lethal. Heard of men getting dragged in and right round. A little one not going to do it but your pinkies will hurt!

 

[mechman]

Same county, Blenkinsopp colliery near Haltwhistle. It was a drift mine opened around the 1700s. The miners must of followed the seam making a long sweeping corner so far down. We had to convert it from tubs to belt and figure how to get the belt to go around the corner. Had to be a bit of a compromise. Ran ok with coal on and was all over the place with nothing on. Interesting ride coming out!

Gotcha

 

[Robotstar5]

Not trying to be all health and safety but if the project does come off watch the drive and return rollers they are lethal. Heard of men getting dragged in and right round. A little one not going to do it but your pinkies will hurt!

That's what happened in my post #12

 

[normspanners]

I guess getting one to drive the shaft with the drive drum on is the difficult bit??

You can get drive rollers that ARE the motor but instead of the shaft turning the body does, ie the roller, you actually fix the shaft solid.
ps slow is best it doesnt move more traveling faster, as long as you have the torque to move it, then it just depends how fast you shovel!!

 

[normspanners]

These do hire, fair trip I know, but.......

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHIFTA-SO...260338?hash=item4af3b44ff2:g:fQYAAOSwEeFVRThA

 

[blenkie1]

That's what happened in my post #12

We had to start fitting nip guards on all return rollers to stop stuff like that happening. Suppose a hire one should be all set up for it.

 

[244t]

After quite some phoning around T found a hire shop stocking them....

Shifta's as the manufacturer markets them as... and they are made in England!!!!


I have made the trip and picked it up.... Manchester

Tomorrow is the day I will be putting it to goo use...

It will give me chance to see how it is made etc. etc.

I would still like to make one in the future...

interested in the idea of the drive roller and motor being combined...

Or is the use of a hydraulic motor an answer...


Thanks again for all your ideas and information...

 

[awemawson]

Pictures of it in use please!