Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport. so
far i have been using supermarket plastic bags. (my plastic buckets do not
hold much more and i have to hold them out to stop banging my legs, which
makes my arms ache more than using the plastic bags).

since i want quite a lot, any tips on the best way to transport it?

"jw 1111" wrote in message
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Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport. so
far i have been using supermarket plastic bags. (my plastic buckets do not
hold much more and i have to hold them out to stop banging my legs, which
makes my arms ache more than using the plastic bags).

since i want quite a lot, any tips on the best way to transport it?

Make some sort of contraption to put on your back like a rucksack?
A large container fitted somehow with straps ??

There are also 'back packs' with a head strap to help distribute the weight:
http://www.eurekalert.org/features/k...-cso060805.php

And this Senegal women has the right idea :~))
http://image24.webshots.com/25/1/5/5...7PoCpgy_ph.jpg

HTH
Jenny

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Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport. so
far i have been using supermarket plastic bags. (my plastic buckets do not
hold much more and i have to hold them out to stop banging my legs, which
makes my arms ache more than using the plastic bags).

since i want quite a lot, any tips on the best way to transport it?

Large woven plastic sacks with HD webbing handles..preferably, long
handles so that you can carry them from one shoulder, much less strain
for your arms (and back). They are featherlight but very strong and
rot-proof. I have a couple of old ones I use in the garden which came
from some garden centre long ago; and one I use for storing the dirty
laundry which came from a domestic-supplies shop run by Indians. It cost
50 p :-) I also have a broad webbing sling which can be slipped through
small handles, to make a shoulder carry-strap (Or tied round big bundles
of foliage. etc to carry from the shoulder..a very useful garden asset).

I find that sort of awkward, repetitive job is easiest to tackle if
you just spend a couple of minutes at it every day until it's done. . If
you're very busy or feeling tired, just load up the bag for moving
later. It's surprising how much you can do without exhausting yourself
or doing yourself an injury, just by breaking down a big job into tiny
contributory parts.

Janet.

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:37:12 +0100, Janet Baraclough
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from "jw 1111" contains these words:

Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport. so
far i have been using supermarket plastic bags. (my plastic buckets do not
hold much more and i have to hold them out to stop banging my legs, which
makes my arms ache more than using the plastic bags).

since i want quite a lot, any tips on the best way to transport it?

Large woven plastic sacks with HD webbing handles..preferably, long
handles so that you can carry them from one shoulder, much less strain
for your arms (and back). They are featherlight but very strong and
rot-proof. I have a couple of old ones I use in the garden which came
from some garden centre long ago;

I don't know how much weight they'd hold, but for many garden jobs I
use the big blue bags that Ikea sell, similar to the yellow ones for
use in store.

Pam in Bristol

"jw 1111" wrote ...
Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport.
so far i have been using supermarket plastic bags. (my plastic buckets do
not hold much more and i have to hold them out to stop banging my legs,
which makes my arms ache more than using the plastic bags).

since i want quite a lot, any tips on the best way to transport it?


If the narrow part is not too long I believe you can hire small portable
conveyer belts to transport stuff through narrow gaps. Certainly seen one
used.

--
Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:28:07 GMT, "jw 1111"
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Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport.
What is wrong with the path - boggy? steps? - more data required...
Geo

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Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport.
What is wrong with the path - boggy? steps? - more data required...
Geo

many thanks to all. there is no path just up and down downtrodden through
brambles and round a narrow ledge.

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:59:02 GMT, "jw 1111"
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On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:28:07 GMT, "jw 1111"

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Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport.
What is wrong with the path - boggy? steps? - more data required...
Geo

many thanks to all. there is no path just up and down downtrodden through
brambles and round a narrow ledge.

Definitely a job for a donkey or mule.

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On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:28:07 GMT, "jw 1111"

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Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport.
What is wrong with the path - boggy? steps? - more data required...

many thanks to all. there is no path just up and down downtrodden through
brambles and round a narrow ledge.

What's wrong with a rucksac? If you can't move it that way, you can't
move it at all.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:28:07 GMT, "jw 1111"
wrote:

Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport. so
far i have been using supermarket plastic bags. (my plastic buckets do not
hold much more and i have to hold them out to stop banging my legs, which
makes my arms ache more than using the plastic bags).

since i want quite a lot, any tips on the best way to transport it?


Prisoners of War when removing the spoil from their escape tunnels
used to hang long thin cloth bags down their trousers. You could do
that, and as you won't be needing to hide the activity from guards,
add to your load with a backpack. Do you have access to a donkey with
panniers?

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Do you have access to a donkey with
panniers?

It's so refreshing when somebody thinks up a completely original
question to ask here :-)



Janet.

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:28:07 GMT, "jw 1111"
wrote:

Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport. so
far i have been using supermarket plastic bags. (my plastic buckets do not
hold much more and i have to hold them out to stop banging my legs, which
makes my arms ache more than using the plastic bags).

since i want quite a lot, any tips on the best way to transport it?

Another idea: get a length of webbing, strapping or wide leather belt,
fix a wire hook to each end (old coat-hanger?) and put it around your
neck so that the hooks are at chest/waist height. Hang supermarket
bags of soil from hooks.


--
Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net

"jw 1111" wrote in message
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Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is no
access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport.
so far i have been using supermarket plastic bags. (my plastic buckets do
not hold much more and i have to hold them out to stop banging my legs,
which makes my arms ache more than using the plastic bags).

since i want quite a lot, any tips on the best way to transport it?



Carry it in bags the same way a coal man carries coal bags

Hazel

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"jw 1111" wrote in message
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Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and there is
no access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled transport.
so far i have been using supermarket plastic bags. (my plastic buckets do
not hold much more and i have to hold them out to stop banging my legs,
which makes my arms ache more than using the plastic bags).

since i want quite a lot, any tips on the best way to transport it?



Carry it in bags the same way a coal man carries coal bags

Hazel
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Providing the distance is within reasonable walking distance there should be
no problem so long as you are not crippled.
You take your gardener's sack truck (and if you haven't got one you are a
rookie so go to your Ironmongers or Garden Centre but beforehand sacrifice a
couple of nights dahn the pub and use the money saved to buy said gardener's
sack-truck and you'll bless the day.
I couldn't operate without mine.
But beware! , - don't lend it out. I lost my last one and forgot who I
loaned it to. Let 'em do without the booze.
You had to!
Doug.
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Hazel wrote:
"jw 1111" wrote in message
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Hi, i have been given some soil, buts it's 100 meters away and
there
is no access for a wheelborrow, or any path suitable for wheeled
transport.
so far i have been using supermarket plastic bags. (my plastic
buckets do not hold much more and i have to hold them out to stop
banging my legs, which makes my arms ache more than using the
plastic bags).

since i want quite a lot, any tips on the best way to transport
it?



Carry it in bags the same way a coal man carries coal bags

Hazel

Am I missing something here? You mean there's no wheelbarrow run at
either end of the route? No path or reasonably level strip at all in
between? If that's your position, you should, of course, move house.
But meanwhile, invite everybody you know to an earth-moving party:
you lay on a vast quantity of beer and wine and curry or something,
and tell them to bring their own sacks and shovels. My second wife
threw a wallpaper-stripping party on this principle, and the job was
done, and everybody had a great time and giggled all the way home.
Think of Amish barn-raising, and old-style Highland potato-planting:
we need more cooperative ventures like that.

--
Mike.