How to choose the right equipment to fill your Big Bag?

Are you looking for flexible and durable equipment to move and/or fill your Big Bags with ease? Big Bags have multiple and almost infinite applications. They can be used to hold bulk materials, rubble, granules and also waste.

A well-chosen big bag carrier, filling hopper or big bag bucket can save you a lot of time and money. But it must be adapted to the needs of your business. Therefore, it is necessary to choose the right equipment or accessories!

Filling the big bag efficiently with the right equipment

Whatever the big bag used, questions of practicality and safety arise. To take full advantage of all the benefits of using a big bag, it is essential to choose the right filling, holding and handling equipment:

• Big bag support bar for quick and easy lifting and safe handling of the big bag
• Trémie de remplissage pour une manutention ergonomique et un remplissage rapide de votre big bag
• Big bag bucket: an all-in-one solution for saving time and speed in filling your big bag: 10 big bags in 10 minutes!

Find out more about the types of big bag holders!

The big bag support bar: for safe handling.

The use of a big bag holder facilitates the transport and storage of flexible containers. Improve the safety of your daily handling operations and reduce the amount of floor space required!

There are several types of big bag spreaders depending on your handling needs and the capacity of your big bag.

• The big bag support cross beam with crane grip: allows the loading and unloading of the big bag with a truck crane or handling with a hoist
• The big bag support beam with forks : its direct mounting on the forks of your forklift truck thanks to its locking system at the heels gives it a practical aspect
• The hydraulic spreader for welded wire mesh: adaptable to the forks of a front or telescopic forklift truck, it allows for rapid handling of trucks, in packages

The heel lock system of the fork lift and the carriage hold-down chains of the hydraulic lift ensure a perfect fit and increased safety.

Note: make the choice of safety by verifying the homologation of your big bag support by a reliable control organism, as Goubard proposes it to you.

Hoppers: for tailor-made filling.

To fill a big bag with the materials and products of your choice: sand, granules, gravel... It is essential to opt for a big bag filling hopper!

The capacity of the big bag will determine the type of hopper you will use. A big bag hopper must be well chosen and almost tailor-made to suit your needs. The maximum load capacity, the filling height, the emptying opening... So many important points to check before buying a hopper!

There are different opening and exit systems to allow you to discharge all or part of the material, with controlled and channelled emptying. The hopper with helmet, with guillotine, with opening bottom, on feet... You have a wide choice of hoppers for handling your big bags!

Do the hoppers on offer not fully meet your expectations? It is essential to equip yourself correctly, opt for a custom-made hopper!

The Big Bag bucket: a one-stop solution!

You've probably heard of the bucket, or that removable element that is indispensable on construction sites for cleaning, digging, levelling, loading and sorting materials.

Another type of bucket, the big bag filler bucket is a big bag support element that allows you to considerably improve the handling and, as its name indicates, the filling of your big bags.

Its use gives you perfect control over unloading, and an optimal gain in productivity! The big bag bucket is mounted directly on the forks, for picking up materials from the ground and filling big bags simultaneously. It offers you precision and speed of filling: 10 big bags in 10 minutes!

• Load capacity of up to 1400 litres
• Grip width of over 2 metres
• Double-acting cylinders for the loading and helmet opening functions
• Automatic system to control both functions with only 1 hydraulic connection
• Handle attachments for quick release
• Removable counterblade

The big bag bucket is an all-in-one solution, which allows you to control the flow of the product during unloading and guarantees a completely safe filling. Choose quality elements for big bag handling!