Locking threads

[Oldpath05]

I use 70s6 welding wire, a little dab will do ya.............

 

[dragoneggs]

I like where this thread has went.

You're welcome!

Now someone explain to me the trick to getting a sack open, such as one has been stitched at the top like a bag of lump charcoal or briquettes. I 'seam' to remember it was as simple as pulling a 'rip' cord. I can't figure out how it's done now. :confused3: :mur:

Yeah, maybe this belongs in the 'you know your'e getting older thread' :laughing:

 

[Jstpssng]

You're welcome!

Now someone explain to me the trick to getting a sack open, such as one has been stitched at the top like a bag of lump charcoal or briquettes. I 'seam' to remember it was as simple as pulling a 'rip' cord. I can't figure out how it's done now. :confused3: :mur:

Yeah, maybe this belongs in the 'you know your'e getting older thread' :laughing:

Some people get POed for thread drift, he's thanking us. :thumbsup:

Bags re fun, I open a lot of grain bags this time of year. You have to pick at the end of the string, on the side of the bag with the paper on it. Pull it out carefully at first, and it should come easily.

If it doesn't cooperate you take a knife and slit the edge of the bag.

 

[Jim Nelson]

You're welcome!

Now someone explain to me the trick to getting a sack open, such as one has been stitched at the top like a bag of lump charcoal or briquettes. I 'seam' to remember it was as simple as pulling a 'rip' cord. I can't figure out how it's done now. :confused3: :mur:

Yeah, maybe this belongs in the 'you know your'e getting older thread' :laughing:

I use my pocket knife to un ravel the knots on one end of the bag and if that doesn't work I go to the other end and like magic it just comes apart. As a kid I watched my Dad open a gazillion grain sacks this way but he very seldom had to change ends.

 

[dragoneggs]

Some people get POed for thread drift, he's thanking us. :thumbsup:
You have to pick at the end of the string, on the side of the bag with the paper on it. Pull it out carefully at first, and it should come easily.

When it doesn't, you take a knife and slit the edge of the bag.

Plan A hasn't been working lately and I guess my impatience causes me to almost immediately go to Plan B in frustration and pull out my Leatherman tool.

 

[MossRoad]

You're welcome!

Now someone explain to me the trick to getting a sack open, such as one has been stitched at the top like a bag of lump charcoal or briquettes. I 'seam' to remember it was as simple as pulling a 'rip' cord. I can't figure out how it's done now. :confused3: :mur:

Yeah, maybe this belongs in the 'you know your'e getting older thread' :laughing:

Put the single stitch side towards you, then pull the right corner. You're welcome. :laughing:

 

[ovrszd]

Put the single stitch side towards you, then pull the right corner. You're welcome. :laughing:

In 45 days I'll turn 69. I learned something simple today.

 

[LouNY]

In my younger days of cow feed being in sewed burlap bags the stitch was a bit different you had to undo the first stitch and pull both threads to remove it,
wow to anyone who even considered reaching for a pocket knife to slice a burlap bag your aXX would have been grass about that time.

 

[Citydude]

In my younger days of cow feed being in sewed burlap bags the stitch was a bit different you had to undo the first stitch and pull both threads to remove it,
wow to anyone who even considered reaching for a pocket knife to slice a burlap bag your aXX would have been grass about that time.

Yep. My grandfather kept burlap bags. Did he return them? I never knew the reason only that you don’t cut them open.

 

[MossRoad]

A lady at the fabric store showed me how to cut burlap. They find the length they want and pull out one of the strands all the way across the piece of fabric. That leaves a nice, even, wide line for you to follow with the scissors. Then you cut it down that line and it leaves a nice, even straight edge that won't fray as easily.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Yep. My grandfather kept burlap bags. Did he return them? I never knew the reason only that you don’t cut them open.

I heard they were taken back to the feed store, who reused them. We called them "Gunny sacks" or "Tow (maybe toe) sacks".

 

[Fuddy1952]

I heard they were taken back to the feed store, who reused them. We called them "Gunny sacks" or "Tow (maybe toe) sacks".

My grandfather next door (born late 1800s) worked at his Dad's General Store. Back then everything came in those sacks...flour, sugar, salt, etc. Grandad said these two old maids asked Great-Grandad to save them because they made bloomers out of them.
Every sack had the company name and logo on them.
One day Grandad said the two maids were bent over looking at things in a showcase.
The first maids said "Sooner or later" and the other said "Why not now?"

 

[5030]

Actually, old feed store burlap sacks (with a logo on them) are collectable and worth money to a collector. We sold a number of them last year and made a good buck on them.

 

[5030]

In 45 days I'll turn 69. I learned something simple today.

Gawd, you are an old fart. Not quite as old as I am, but close. We do have something in common though.... Drones....

 

[JethroB]

Burlap or the later nylon weaved feed sacks, we called them Croaker sacks. Do not know why.
Farmers reused them for storing farm milled hog feed or for the pecans we picked up to sell. Sewed them closed with baling or electric fence wire.

 

[/pine]

FWIW... The wire ties and twisters commonly seen being used to tie rebar together are actually called "wire bag ties"...both they and the twister hook tools were used to tie feed etc., etc...bags long before they were adopted to tie rebar in modern construction...

 

[ovrszd]

I heard they were taken back to the feed store, who reused them. We called them "Gunny sacks" or "Tow (maybe toe) sacks".

We called them Gunny Sacks. Our relatives at Lamar Oklahoma called them Tote Sacks.

 

[Dftodd]

Sometimes I’ll bugger up the treads on the part that’s through the nut so it can’t back off.

Need a thread file

 

[newbury]

This reminds me of when our company痴 bank (hint: stage coach logo) mistakenly closed our payroll checking account one Friday evening. Talk about being in a panic on Monday morning. Somebody clicked the wrong box with their mouse.

That's it - it's the mouses fault!

A follow-up on the mysterious two closed threads back on 09/02. I found that if I'm logged in to TBN, and scroll through a list of threads, if my left thumb bounces on the envelope icons, the iPad touchscreen saw it as a double click. Double clicking on an envelope when you have moderator powers toggles state between closed and opened threads, depending on it's current state. I knew this on PC, but did not on iPad. I figured it out when I went to read a thread, bumped the envelope instead of the link, and it closed on me. So I'm pretty sure it was me that closed those two. I'll be a bit more careful where my left thumb rides on the screen and apologize for the inconvenience.

Just thought some of you would like to know that those two were not intentional. All the others, pretty much so.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:
Honesty!

Need a thread file

If you subscribe to a thread on TBN you can file and sort the subscriptions.

 

[k0ua]

Burlap or the later nylon weaved feed sacks, we called them Croaker sacks. Do not know why.
Farmers reused them for storing farm milled hog feed or for the pecans we picked up to sell. Sewed them closed with baling or electric fence wire.

When you go frog gigging you place the frogs (croakers) into your sack. Make sure you keep the opening of the sack securely closed. As a small child it was my duty to follow the gigger around the pond at night and drag the sack with the frogs. I had an accident with sack opening management, and several of the frogs escaped. I received a good "dressing down' reference my sloth in sack management. In my defense, I wasn't very old.