Ogden city employees have created their own sandbagging machine using pieces of playground equipment and scraps from buildings.
The idea came from an employee with Ogden's Park and Cemetery Division. They work on the river a lot and use a lot of spare parts — a perfect combination for this project.
"I've always been a problem solver," said longtime city employee Jacob Chadwick. "Our day to day is maintenance on park restrooms, playgrounds.""We replace a broken slide," he said. "Weeding the cemetery."It's not in their job description, but they engineered it."About three days," Chadwick said."The top comes off and it goes right back together in less than 10 minutes," Chadwick said.
"When you're filling them with shovels, you get some that are really overfull, some that are under full," Chadwick said.Its stand is an old diesel exhaust fuel tank that Chadwick said was lying in their yard."It's very comforting to know we've got that tool," Anderson said. "We could take it from here and have it up in a location easily working in under an area."Next, the team has plans to paint the machine and put a logo on it.
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