Dedicated sandbag filling tool five times faster than a shovel

Why move all that sand when you have water at your disposal.

This is so brilliant and so simple, it is amazing that it wasn't invented earlier.

http://www.hydroresponse.com/watergate.htm

Very nice, GOBAGGER !

The improvements I can see here is to make GOBAGGER folding, for different size bags and handling materials, including fluids/ liquids/ water for example.

New GOBAGGER designs can be made of simple, easy to assemble components, used instead of other tools, like bucket, shovel, becoming a MULTI-TOOL WITH ACCESSORIES for different "fields of activity", including toys for children or adults.

Also for easy transportation, plus reduce the volume when kept in deposit.

Thanks, Ioan "Dakoroman" OASA, Sydney, Australia.

I do like the concept, but I think the weight and bulk of it would work against you with prolonged use.

There is a similar product that packs smaller and could be used by weaker and younger workers called the EZ-bagger. It has been around for 10 years.

http://ezbagger.tripod.com/

Similar tube device came to mind when I saw the Sandbag 2.0 article , this turned up in google, I'ts way more elegant, probably cheaper, and probably almost as fast if not as fast, per it's web page can also be used to hand dig someone out of a trench collapse, it's just a flat plastic plate with a couple of handholes:

http://www.angelguardproducts.com/industrial/ezbagger/ezbagger.htm

The problem is it's still a sandbag. With deployment, redeployment and disposal the cost is about $12 per bag. That makes a 3' high barrier ~$200 or more. And you can only use the bags once. There are better more effective and efficient ways to deal with emergency flood protection.

Here's just one: http://www.floodwalls.com.

These units cost around $145/ft and can be reused again and again for decades.

In my opinion, GOBAGGER is more versatile than EZ Bagger; it can be improved a lot, to make it a FOLDING MULTI-TOOL ACCESSORIES, used for many other activities.

Water-Gate, Sandbag 2.0-Sand Brick and FlodWalls are not in the same categories.

We are talking here about an ideal product/ GOBAGGER, used by ordinary people for almost any materials they can find in special circumstances, when time is limited.

Thanks, Ioan "Dakoroman" OASA, Sydney, Australia / dakoroman@yahoo.com

It's a stolen Idea! An incredibly similar product was featured a couple years ago on the TV show "American Inventor." Of course, I don't remember the inventor that brought it to the show, so perhaps this is still him and he found a way to get it out there...I don't recall him being an architect though.

A few years ago I saw a nearly identical device made of coroplast (corrugated plastic) that worked the same as the GoBagger but folded flat when when it was not being used.

Just to clarify: I am Matt Piner, the Architect that invented this (needed to speak up, since anyone with a keyboard can say whatever they want as "fact"... Lloyd B...)

The guy on American Inventor was Mark Martinez, his product was the "Sackmaster 2000" He came up with his invention about the same time I did mine, around 1998 or 99, completely independently. This is documented. We both have Design patents, neither infringes on the other, I do have a Utility patent as well, he does not -- there is no infringement.

See http://inventorspot.com/existingproducts

The judge from the show, Doug Hall contacted me and bought samples of the Gobagger to see for himself... He personally commented he felt it was a better design, as it works about the same but stacks and takes up less room for shipping and storage.

There, some actual facts, not a "stolen idea" Lloyd B!