Efficiently repalletize old stocks of blocks?

[Groot]

Greetings,

I'm looking for creative ideas to efficiently repalletize old stocks of hollow blocks.

Those have been forgotten for years, and the wooden pallets have failed, wich results in unstable stacks & impossibility to handle with forklifts.

First concern is workers security / avoiding accidents
And second concern is finding something better than picking them one by one

There's about 300 pallets / 40k blocks.

Some pictures to illustrate.

Cheers

 

[oldestguy]

Good summer job for students, re-stacking on better pallets.

 

[bimr]

Instead of a forklift, use a telehandler to pick the pallets. Consider using plastic pallets as wooden pallets are for temporary construction.

 

[Groot]

oldestguy - would need too much supervision to prevent them from killing themselves

bimr - ok, it would put the forklift operator at a safe distance.

i wonder about using straps to realign the stack on some of the pallets

for broken / crushed pallets, i was wondering if there was some tool with sort of side clamps, would help a lot. sounds too specialized though

 

[LittleInch]

Something like this?

https://www.hiab.com/en/HIAB/products/Loader-cranes/HIAB/Accessories/brick-grabs/

Look up "brick grab"



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[Groot]

LittleInch - i guess you nailed it thanks