Storms with flooding situations have increased in recent years. Rapid assistance is required more and more frequently. Providing personnel and technical resources requires a great deal of effort, but this is offset by the time pressure that a flood emergency entails.
The AB sandbag filling system can be used here, whereby the AB stands for roll-off container. This provides the emergency services with a sandbag filling system that is ready for use quickly and directly on site and can fill up to 2500 sandbags in just one hour with a small number of personnel. As a roll-off container, the sandbag filling unit is brought to the scene of the emergency and parked there.
The sandbag filling system is quickly ready for operation and has well-placed controls and an efficient lighting mast for working in the dark. Stabilizing, extendable winch supports are provided and side-mounted wraparound tarpaulins allow quick access to the interior. One side wall can be folded down as a ramp for pallet trucks. The height of the sandbag filling unit's work tables can be adjusted to provide protection during transportation.
The roof structure provides a hopper for the sandbag filling device, and special sandbag sewing machines are suspended from the ceiling to ensure a continuous filling process from there. The sand is continuously poured into the outer hopper by an excavator or front-end loader and then flows into the sandbags through smaller hoppers at four or more work stations. The sewing machines seal the bags so that they can either be packed for onward transportation or used immediately for flood protection. This sandbag filling system was developed for efficient and fast sandbag production, especially for emergency situations such as flooding.
The roll-off container with sandbag filling system for flood protection is a special attachment from the special vehicle construction sector, in which Norrenbrock-Technik GmbH has specialized as a leading company.
