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Subject: Introducing The Handmade InstaFort
SYSOP    8/9/2012 5:16:32 AM
 
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HeavyD       8/9/2012 7:58:46 PM
One soldier can fill 20 sandbags per hour?!?  Maybe in the desert, with a buddy holding the sandbag open for him
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wastral    Sand filling   8/9/2012 9:21:02 PM
Depends how out of shape said soldier is.  The true rate of sand bag filling is several times 20 an hour.  Its closer to 200 an hour for someone in good shape using loose sand/gravel. It takes about 3-5 shovel fills of sand/dirt/gravel to fill a bag depending on how big the shovel/bag is.
 
For sand bag filling the smart way it is typical to have a form said bag hangs from and one simply dumps the dirt into it.  Someone else grabs the filled bag closes it, picks it up, replaces with new bag. 
 
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HeavyD       8/10/2012 3:45:57 AM
I was remembering my basic training, with a trenching tool shovel and hard-pack dirt.
 
Give me a long-handled, full sized spade and a pile of loose gravel/sand and at age 48 I could prolly manage those 600 - 1000 shovels full for an hour - but not much more!
 
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wastral    Digging takes a small bit of practice   8/11/2012 5:45:41 PM
Digging takes a small bit of practice.  Had too much filling bags for flood control on the Skagit river and other areas in my life here in W. Washington.  Only a complete out of shape dude even in hard packed dirt can only do 20 an hour with a normal shovel.  Now said army trenching shovels are smaller than optimum by a large margin.  My cousin who made quite a few sand bag forts in Iraq never used said shovel though.  They had normal shovels flown in and the job went several times faster.  
 
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