What do you use to load quarters into hopper ?

[EJ333]

When I collect quarters from the machines, I refill my hoppers manually by just cupping my hands together. In the past, my wife bought me a big metal scooper, but I found it too unwieldy. Okay, no jokes from you card guys.

[chrisgaw]

I use a metal coffee can to pour the quarters into the hoppers. It is perfect for my purposes.

[bodman]

I use a tide soap bottle that i cut the top off, I dump the qtrs from machines into it weigh the container multiply that no, by 20 record that amount then pour the qtrs in the hoppers. The tide container i use will hold close to 25 pounds. it is plyable enough to go through th opening on my front fill changers, to get to the hopper.

[CanCanCase]

I've evolved from the cupped hands trick to a coffee can to a plastic 1/2-gallon bucket and now, of course, to nothing as soon as we can get the card system installed.

-Case

[Paco]

I use the cloth bags from banksupplies.com. I use the large one to collect with, and the smaller ones to store quarters. I can usually get one bag to stay in between the 2 hoppers for storage

[EJ333]

Thanks for your replies. Just had an idea that might work for me. I collect my quarters normally with a horse feed bucket. If I insert coffee cans inside the bucket, most of the quarters will fall into the coffee cans, then I can load the hoppers with the coffee cans and not have to touch as many quarters. It's worth a try. Unfortunately, I gave up making my own coffee at home several years ago.

[laundryboy2]

Use the cloth bags from the bank. Collect, weigh, dump!

Nice thing about the bags, no quarters banging around while on the stores floor!

[Adamski]

EJ,

I collect my golden dollar coins (no quarters) into small, red buckets which are used by the restaurant industry for sanitizing purposes. I dump my bucket into the coin counter to count and record the bucket total. As the coins are counted, they feed into special green "coin bags" that were designed for easy dumping into the changer hoppers. I seldom spill any coins during this 15 minute counting/filling process.

The sanitizing buckets are available in 1 qt and 2 qt sizes and can be bought at any restaurant supply outlet.

[rjwarner]

Larry, for those that weigh their coins, what is the formula for dollar coins per pound?

And you out there that weigh, do you have any recommendations of scales that you have used and like?

RJ

[zclean1]

I use a small plastic margerine or butter tub..the top squeezes oblong for pouring the coins.