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DiyDave 
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Posted: 05 Feb 2019 at 9:38pm |
Got to carry 40 lb bags of rock salt, outta the car, up 3 steps, then down another 15 or so, to get to the water conditioner. Bags uster have an extra piece of plastic, above the punch out handle. Last coupla times the goddam piece of plastic, is no longer there... Get it in the house (1 bag in each hand) and by the 3rd or 4th step down, the goddamn handle breaks free, dumping the bag of salt down the stairs. Here's the question: Does anybody make a handle that can hold 40 lb load, and cam onto the bag, holding it by the entire length of plastic (as wide as the bag)?
Was thinkin of maybe a dovetail, with an insert, that has a handle, that will fit through the punch out handle of the bag. Don't want something that takes a whole lot of time, to attach to these worthless cheap goddam bags... OK, rant over...  |
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Tracy Martin TN
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Posted: 05 Feb 2019 at 9:44pm |
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You can buy a bag they will fit in. It is made from a woven nylon. I get steel pieces from suppliers in them, they are indestructable ! Handles wont come off or tear! HTH Tracy
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Posted: 05 Feb 2019 at 9:51pm |
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What about a sling like city folks carry fire wood in?
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Posted: 05 Feb 2019 at 9:51pm |
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Take a piece of rope and make a barrel sling. Might have to find a boy scout to help with tying that. Another option that might work, tie a piece of rope into a loop. Lay it out in a long oval. Lay the bag across the long sides of the oval. Pick up the exposed ends. Or use a firewood carrier. Just a couple ideas for you.
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john(MI)
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Posted: 05 Feb 2019 at 10:00pm |
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Saw a article on a guy that built a chute for salt from the garage to the basement. Had to use 4" pvc pipe, smaller plugged up. I've wanted to make one but too many other projects. Although it is getting more and more thought as I get older!
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Posted: 05 Feb 2019 at 10:14pm |
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Get some of those heavy duty contractor trash bags and put the salt in one then throw it over your shoulder and carry it down like Santa.
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Posted: 05 Feb 2019 at 10:41pm |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 1:52am |
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I've used a canvas sling to carry firewood in the house before, sure made it easier, should work for your bags. maybe a fold up slide on the stairway? or disconnect the water softener like I did ours. oh...I did get the old lady...oooops...I mean the loving wife a couple strong laundry bags that have cushioned aluminum handles, should hold 2 bags, they are heavy duty canvas type bags.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 1:52am |
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oh...and be careful on some of your wording, family site!
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 7:06am |
 shameless dude wrote:
I've used a canvas sling to carry firewood in the house before, sure made it easier, should work for your bags. maybe a fold up slide on the stairway? or disconnect the water softener like I did ours. oh...I did get the old lady...oooops...I mean the loving wife a couple strong laundry bags that have cushioned aluminum handles, should hold 2 bags, they are heavy duty canvas type bags. |
You wouldn't have disconnected the softener at my house.....unless you like showering with ketchup colored water and replacing faucets every year or so. I buy "Do It" softener salt, haven't had a bag break yet carrying 2 at a time. Maybe my day is coming?
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 7:37am |
I do thee same type and number of stairs. The brand is Morton since that is what the local Wally's carry.
Dang (hope that was a clean enough word for Shameless  ) haven't had a handle beak in 17 years. hope my day is not coming.
I think maybe i can remember the day when I took two at a time.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 8:22am |
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Yes I agree with Shameless about this being a Family Site and the need to watch our words yours truly included! We all have a Yosemite Sam moment when the air is blue with CUSS words! I have tried hared to stop swearing as coming from a long line of men that swore a blue streak of CUSS words. I try and say Golldarnit, Dagnabbit,Son of a Sea Cook, or By the Holey old Mackinaw! The last one is a Michigan saying!
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 8:38am |
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Fill two 5 gallon buckets outside and then carry them down stairs, one it each hand... And the bucket should be just as easy or easier to dump into the softener.
Edited by steve(ill) - 06 Feb 2019 at 8:39am
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 9:52am |
I have to assume you don't have a basement door ? Man, I feel for you ! Having one was a REQUIREMENT to buying a house. I can't think of the PITA it'd be to haul in a freezer, furnace, softener salt. I kindly suggest, if possible, blowing out the basement wall and adding a 36" mandoor,especially if this is your forever home. None of us get younger as the years tick by, stuff gets harder. Me, I'm grabbing the handrail( installed last year) to go up/dn stairs to basement. If not an option, maybe open basement window, use a chute to get salt into a tub inside? I'd buy several bags at a time, to stock up, IF you have room of course. It'd reduce the PITA 'delivery' to say 2-3 times a year.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 11:05am |
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Wonder if you could make a trap door in a closet or back room where you can open it and drop the bags down a slide?
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 4:59pm |
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The firewood sling sounds like the quickest way!
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 5:07pm |
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For $250, I bought a Nutting railroad baggage 4 wheel cart. I roll it to the steps. Lay a piece of plywood from the cart up 2 steps in the stairs. Lay a plastic floor runner down the stairs and onto the cart. Slide the 6 bags down the plastic and stack them on the cart and roll them to the soften.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 6:16pm |
Old brick farmhouse, no mods will be cheap. no basement door, cept at the other side of house, maybe 50-60 strides away. I just wanna carry the dang bag down the stairs, with out the cheap !@#$%ing thing breaking at the handle. Also don't want to have to do a bunch of extra labor, or store the buckets, or carrier. did I mention how many times this year its been rainin while unloading salt, this year?
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019 at 9:46pm |
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I buy the yellow bags of Morton Crystal Water Softener Salt. I have to carry them down into the basement. Usually get 40 lbs bags. I always have my trusty Case Sodbuster Jack Knife to cut the bags open. Sometimes I have an accident and drop or have a bag slip out of my grip. Then I get to clean up!
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Posted: 07 Feb 2019 at 10:41am |
OK... AFTER you get them to the top of the basement stairs, fold down a simple plywood 'chute' and let gravity slide them down to the basement. Slide is 2' wide, so 1 sheet of ply does 16' run. Had that at Radio Shack, back in 70s, worked GREAT to ge boxes and boxes and boxes of 'stuff' into the basement. Usd a rope and Jeep to get the motorcycle out.
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Posted: 07 Feb 2019 at 2:38pm |
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When I built I put the water pressure tank in the garage and the softener is there also, I buy 10 bags at a time and gets a discount back in and 5' is all I have to carry it.
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Posted: 08 Feb 2019 at 11:11pm |
I moved the brine tank to my wife's garage, next to the garbage can. Back the car in, open the back door. Take lid off the brine tank, lift bag out of car, dump in tank, drop bag in garbage can, and repeat.
The softener is about 60 feet away horizontally... down in the basement about nine feet.. When I moved it, I poured a couple buckets of water in, so that it'd have a 'prime'. It works flawlessly...
And before anyone asks how I keep it from freezing, I'll remind 'ya that it's BRINE.... (but her garage IS heated). 
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