Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
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Am designing a concrete hardstand for stacking empty crates up to 3m high, the existing ground slope is about 3%, to minimize earthworks Am planning to design a floor with a maximum gradient of 2%. I read somewhere that allowable slope for hardstand is 1% which is costly to adopt. Is this safe to adopt 2% grade, Any suggestion is appreciated.





RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
I'd leave the slight slope "as-is" and require separators between pallet loading zones (make a series of slots for the loaded pallets to go into) so one collapsing pallet load by illegals or untrained or incompetent/overzealous workers (both potentially dangerous!) won't cause the whole row to fall over when the load on the pallet in the middle slides sideways..
3 meters is 10 feet - certainly high enough to be dangerous if the pile collapses. Another safer "fall direction" is to make each slot sloped away from the open front. Then, when the pile falls, it falls away from the loading zone (the open front) and the collapsing load is trapped by the rear wall and both side walls. More expensive though. CME walls?
RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
You got a photo of the load ?
RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
None are particularly good to me as 3% in 10m is 300mm. Also if the weight of one of these things is say 2 tonnes, your force is 60kg trying to move it. Might not sound a lot, but none of this type of stacking system or indeed the forklift, is really designed for it and if it gets a bit wet or is stacked a little incorrectly, down it comes.
Just my thoughts anyway.
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RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
Seems like cutting out the high side, using that to fill in the low side is as good as you can do. Loose loads on forklift tongues stacked next to each other so close to the next stack, driven by today's typical workers?
RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates
RE: Slope for Concrete Hardstand for stacking empty crates