Thanks Paul I will be interested to read comments from some of our battery experts.
Warren-Pat_01 said
11:26 PM Aug 23, 2019
I guess it's ok for those with two axles & needing 170Ahr, otherwise it's a bit heavy.
How many of you chaps can lift 50kg easily from under the bed, etc?
PeterX said
03:33 AM Aug 24, 2019
Are they supposed to be new or 2nd hand?
kesa32 said
09:35 AM Aug 24, 2019
I bought a couple of Eaton UPS 130 ah used for $100 each last year for our half lap , similar type to those ones , mine are bloody heavy too @ 46kg each , luckily l could take a panel out of the bed base framing and wheel them in ....
Whenarewethere said
01:08 PM Aug 24, 2019
Warren-Pat_01 wrote:
I guess it's ok for those with two axles & needing 170Ahr, otherwise it's a bit heavy. How many of you chaps can lift 50kg easily from under the bed, etc?
Once there was 25 bags of cement to the tonne, with no handles!
Aus-Kiwi said
03:38 PM Aug 24, 2019
Then some say the batteries are too light ! Sheesh ! Unless they are marketing a more expensive type ?
valiant81 said
10:37 AM Aug 25, 2019
I found these batteries at my local scrap metal yard .Payed $100.00 each for them. They had close 100 of these batteries along with a few 190 Ah for the same price. I have two of these 100 Ah batteries and have been on solar for a few months and run every thing in my ham radio shack.
yobarr said
12:04 PM Aug 25, 2019
Whenarewethere wrote:
Warren-Pat_01 wrote:
I guess it's ok for those with two axles & needing 170Ahr, otherwise it's a bit heavy. How many of you chaps can lift 50kg easily from under the bed, etc?
Once there was 25 bags of cement to the tonne, with no handles!
Those were the days when men were men,and many enjoyed hard physical work.A bag of cement used to weigh around 40kg,and drivers used to load their trucks by hand! Cheers
dogbox said
04:30 PM Aug 25, 2019
yobarr wrote:
Whenarewethere wrote:
Warren-Pat_01 wrote:
I guess it's ok for those with two axles & needing 170Ahr, otherwise it's a bit heavy. How many of you chaps can lift 50kg easily from under the bed, etc?
Once there was 25 bags of cement to the tonne, with no handles!
Those were the days when men were men,and many enjoyed hard physical work.A bag of cement used to weigh around 40kg,and drivers used to load their trucks by hand! Cheers
we have become a bunch of wooses cement now comes in 20 kg bags
kesa32 said
07:08 PM Aug 25, 2019
Lol , nah mate , they've become smarter .... my backs half buggered from heavy work all of my life , if l had the time over again and had the option of lighter work loads ld take it .... nothing to do with being a " tough guy " , yes at the time your fit and it's great but the strain on all your body parts catches up as you get older ..... obviously you didn't do enough of it to cause you any grief......
Bicyclecamper said
08:01 PM Aug 25, 2019
I think the worst thing about loading a semi back in the day, was trying to throw the 56 ft long by 24 ft wide, rolled up tarp on my trailer, and I never really mastered it, so depending on load and if a forklift was around, that helped, otherwise, I would throw it on the trailer deck and as the load go higher, I would just move it up, but it was a pain, and pain is what I have now after all that work.
-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Sunday 25th of August 2019 08:03:12 PM
Craig1 said
08:54 AM Aug 26, 2019
Yep, Manwell Labour done us in a fair bit. Cement and then bloody tarps. Try unrolling a tarp over empty aluminium fish bins stacked 10 feet high.
Found these on Social Media....
Aussie Paul.
Interesting batteries.
How many of you chaps can lift 50kg easily from under the bed, etc?
Once there was 25 bags of cement to the tonne, with no handles!
I found these batteries at my local scrap metal yard .Payed $100.00 each for them. They had close 100 of these batteries along with a few 190 Ah for the same price. I have two of these 100 Ah batteries and have been on solar for a few months and run every thing in my ham radio shack.
Those were the days when men were men,and many enjoyed hard physical work.A bag of cement used to weigh around 40kg,and drivers used to load their trucks by hand! Cheers
we have become a bunch of wooses cement now comes in 20 kg bags
I think the worst thing about loading a semi back in the day, was trying to throw the 56 ft long by 24 ft wide, rolled up tarp on my trailer, and I never really mastered it, so depending on load and if a forklift was around, that helped, otherwise, I would throw it on the trailer deck and as the load go higher, I would just move it up, but it was a pain, and pain is what I have now after all that work.
-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Sunday 25th of August 2019 08:03:12 PM