Invention speeds up rural sandbagging
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 14/04/2011 (5386 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Necessity has been the mother of invention for the RM of Cornwallis.
After discovering that the provincial sandbagging machine currently housed at the Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation yard on First Street North would require far too many people to operate, the RM created a portable sandbagging unit using sheer "farmer" innovation.
"It’s made out of two-by-fours and sewer pipe," says RM of Cornwallis Reeve Reg Atkinson. "It’s pretty simple to show people how to use the machines we’ve made."
At peak capacity, the contraptions can fill 1,000 sandbags per hour.
In the past 48 hours, the contraption has provided in the range of 14,000 sandbags for use in sandbagging two properties in the RM.