Skip lifting lugs

[Pete.]

Also made worse by builders repositioning the delivered skips, most of them will shunt an empty skip into an impossible position for collection, then the poor old driver has to chain them up at awkward angles to drag them back in line

Bob

If the skip driver is any good at all he cn pick almost anything up from almost anywhere. I've seen drivers pull a skip out from between two cars with just a few inches either end.

Our old skip firm used to hate one of the demo contractors because they were tearing up his 20yd skips by repositioning them with a 20 tonner and toothed bucket. One day he lost it with the driver when he did it right in front of him. He got out of the lorry can and started screaming at the machine driver for trashing his gear. Big mistake - the driver was some loose cannon alcoholic from Bethnal Green. He hopped out of the digger and bashed him a good'un.

 

[anto44]

I was working on a site years ago and late one Friday evening the decision was made that a full bottle of concrete wasn't going to be needed that evening so it got emptied into a good size skip filling it right to the top. 3 of the lifting lugs broke off when the truck tried to pick it up.

 

[Adam Marshall]

I know this is old but just to follow up I did some work last week for a company which only used the surface mounted lifting upto 12 yarders. Company never had a problem with them, when I asked the chaps that have been there 10 years they say thats all they've ever used.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

I know nothing about skips....but if I'm seeing the diagram correctly the diameter around which the weld sits has gone from 36mm to 50mm?....which I reckon increases the weld length by about 40% on the outside?

 

[Adam Marshall]

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which I reckon increases the weld length by about 40% on the outside?

Are you talking about the BFD 5045 diagram?

 

[Adam Marshall]

The surface mounted lugs have 70mm diameter to weld around.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Yup the surface mounts "only" are even larger...I was looking at the redesign with the 25mm pin...maybe the design was to get a longer weld which would translate to less stress on the skip...dunno...I know nothing about skips....I just figured there was intent in the design so trying to work out why it was done that way.

 

[Adam Marshall]

Yup the surface mounts "only" are even larger...I was looking at the redesign with the 25mm pin...maybe the design was to get a longer weld which would translate to less stress on the skip...dunno...I know nothing about skips....I just figured there was intent in the design so trying to work out why it was done that way.

The parts were put on my bench already welded onto the c channel which had 2 passes spray transfer fair size fillet, there going nowhere.