Manatee County in Florida buys five sandbag filling machines to avoid long lines and possible injuries preceding hurricanes…

What was the sandbag filler they chose and why? The Burcham Bagger. Officials say in the 10 days leading up to Hurricane Harvey in Houston, a pair of the machines successfully churned out 250,000 bags to protect an Amazon fulfillment center from flooding.

This Burcham Bagger is the only sandbag filling machine on the market today that both fills the sandbag, and sews it shut. This machine can fill any open mouth bag – no need for expensive specialty sandbags. And operating the Burcham Bagger is as simple as lifting a bag to the spout. The Burcham Bagger will dispense an exact amount of sand and automatically shut off. Need to change the bag weight? Simply adjust the weight dial, and every sandbag will be filled to the new size. No more over filled sandbags that are difficult to handle and impossible to stack!

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For Immediate Release

The Sandbag Store, a Nevada veteran-owned small business, has been awarded a contract with Manatee County, FL for five of their new sandbag filling machines (Fox13 News, n.d.). The contract, valued at $108,000 is just one of several orders for their Burcham Bagger, a machine that can fill up to 900 sandbags per hour by inexperienced volunteers. Read more…