My last post was at 11:50 am. I put a 50lb bag of salt in my freezer. It's now almost 10pm. Just checked on the salt. It's the same as when I took it out of the 66 degree temp outside and put it in the freezer. I"ll keep ya posted in the morning on how it holds up over night. Hell I may even keep it in there in till I need it in a month or so........ So far I DID NOT find a frozen bag of salt as suggest by some.
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i would think that the condensation from temp cycling is what creates the problem....stick it in the sun tom and the freezer tom night and see what happens
SIDE NOTE: Before uploading my last pic, I checked on that bag of rock salt I put in my deep freezer a few days ago. Looks fine, feels fine, smells fine....... I will open the bag tomorrow to double check my findings tonight. But so far "after a few days" STILL no frozen bag of salt. My freezer temp is set at 18 degrees. Perhaps, it may only freeze at 17 or below.
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Would you be willing to loan me your guys?
They can obvously stack a skid, unlike mine
There's 258 bags of salt on them 3 pallets. Lowe's only had 3 empty pallets laying around in the back of the store so we had to make due with what we got.
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What type of bags/where did you get them from? Seem to be holding up fine? We did this last year but used 5 gallon buckets. We sell our retail customers a bucket to place by there doors then charge a refill rate at each plowing event if needed. Turns out to be alittle extra money each month but the customers love it that we offer this!
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What type of bags/where did you get them from? Seem to be holding up fine? We did this last year but used 5 gallon buckets. We sell our retail customers a bucket to place by there doors then charge a refill rate at each plowing event if needed. Turns out to be alittle extra money each month but the customers love it that we offer this!
The bags are 5 mil plastic and are rated for 90 lbs but we only put 50 lbs in each bag. The guys didn't rip or bust not even one bag when filling. These bags are great and are used by some company's to bag gravel, mulch and so on.... I found the bags at Associated bags cost a little over 100.00 bucks for 500 bags with free shipping. They offer a printing service for the bags also. I will see how they hold up over these season and if they work out good next year I will have them print our logo's on the bags and I will then sell them off at a discounted rate to our customers. Little exter CASH FLOW!
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Looks good. We use bagged salt for walks but to cut costs also use our bulk. We take the spinner off on of the salters load the truck turn on the spreader and fill buckets. Works great and saves money. We did have issues with the salt becoming hard sometimes but rare. We do store inside but some would get damp and harden out on the trucks.
Your idea looks like it wil work for you. Nice way to save a bit of money and keep things moving in the off season.
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