How’s Eddie?

[Hay Dude]

It took me a while to figure out that string... I'd try one end and if that didn't work then I'd go to the other. It wasn't until somebody posted a question here that I realized there was a right end to start on. Not long after that I noticed a grain bag with a note telling which end to start on. I"ve only been opening grain and seed bags for about... 50 years.
Now would somebody please tell me how to get rid of them, other than using them for trash? They're pretty rugged bags and it seems wasteful to use them once and toss.

Getting back to the original topic; I hope that your father recovers quickly Eddie.

I refill them with sand and use them in winter for weight on the back of the truck and dumping into my salt/sand spreader. Otherwise, I use them like trash bags, then throw them out with trash in them.
I like your depression era mentality on not liking to throw away something that still has value.
Sorry for interrupting.....Now back on topic

 

[fried1765]

It took me a while to figure out that string... I'd try one end and if that didn't work then I'd go to the other. It wasn't until somebody posted a question here that I realized there was a right end to start on. Not long after that I noticed a grain bag with a note telling which end to start on. I"ve only been opening grain and seed bags for about... 50 years.
Now would somebody please tell me how to get rid of them, other than using them for trash? They're pretty rugged bags and it seems wasteful to use them once and toss.

Getting back to the original topic; I hope that your father recovers quickly Eddie.

Send them to me.

 

[fried1765]

I refill them with sand and use them in winter for weight on the back of the truck and dumping into my salt/sand spreader. Otherwise, I use them like trash bags, then throw them out with trash in them.
I like your depression era mentality on not liking to throw away something that still has value.
Sorry for interrupting.....Now back on topic

We think so much alike it is almost scary !

 

[Jstpssng]

Send them to me.

How many? I only have about 50 right now, but next summer can save a lot more.

Maybe we can find a way to use them to cure Covid… just to get back on topic.

 

[stuckmotor]

Eddie said his dad told him to face the label and pull the string at the upper right corner. It works.

 

[dmccarty]

Re: How痴 Eddie?

How many? I only have about 50 right now, but next summer can save a lot more.

Maybe we can find a way to use them to cure Covid just to get back on topic.

Make mask out of them? :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[Jstpssng]

Re: How痴 Eddie?

Make mask out of them? :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

That get's us back on topic! :thumbsup:

 

[PILOON]

Re: How痴 Eddie?

Oh Oh,
sounds like the sacks are going the 'pallet in the field' route!

 

[the old grind]

Re: How痴 Eddie?

I always gave grain bags to hunters to tote bait to there stands.

Sugar beets, carrots, and apples bought in clear plastic stay fresher once moved to bags that can breathe a little vs soaking 'em in condensation, rotting, & sprouting.

btw, IMO it wasn't Covid that ruined the hunt this year. Weather did.

 

[Hay Dude]

Hunting was awesome this year, HERE. Getting outside and keeping your distance from peeps is the way to go.

 

[Bearsixty7]

..Now would somebody please tell me how to get rid of them, other than using them for trash? They're pretty rugged bags and it seems wasteful to use them once and toss.

Back when I was a kid on the farm, the feedstore would take most of them back and refill with the same feed if the bag was still in good shape. Back in the 70's and 80's we had MFA, Tindles and a local family feedstore in one town.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Back when I was a kid on the farm, the feedstore would take most of them back and refill with the same feed if the bag was still in good shape. Back in the 70's and 80's we had MFA, Tindles and a local family feedstore in one town.

Back then they were burlap. Today they are plastic.

 

[Bearsixty7]

Back then they were burlap. Today they are plastic.

Burlap and heavy paper actually. They reused both. Do the feed stores today not take them?

We just got a few chickens a month ago and I purchased a 50# bag of feed from a southern OK feed store and it was in a similar heavy paper bag.

 

[Vtnewbie]

The most insidious thing about this pandemic is the absolute unpredictability. I've always been pretty healthy; was sick with it for 2 days, and not very sick at that - just didn't want to go do chores one day. My wife, even healthier than me, got it shortly after that and she was flat-on-her-back sick for a month. Fifteen year old daughter was sick for 2 weeks. 81 year old mother in law with emphysema and lung cancer was sick for 2 weeks. Best of luck and blessings to all who are still to get this disease.

 

[fried1765]

The most insidious thing about this pandemic is the absolute unpredictability. I've always been pretty healthy; was sick with it for 2 days, and not very sick at that - just didn't want to go do chores one day. My wife, even healthier than me, got it shortly after that and she was flat-on-her-back sick for a month. Fifteen year old daughter was sick for 2 weeks. 81 year old mother in law with emphysema and lung cancer was sick for 2 weeks. Best of luck and blessings to all who are still to get this disease.

I am 80!
Will drive 80 miles tomorrow to Gillette Stadium (Foxboro, Ma.) for first shot.
Moderna vaccine .... at 2:42 PM

 

[Molalla1]

I am 80!
Will drive 80 miles tomorrow to Gillette Stadium for first shot.
Moderna vaccine .... at 2:42 PM

I'm 78 and still waiting.

 

[Hay Dude]

I had pneumonia twice in a month in 2019, the 2nd time is when I came down with GBS and spent 2 months in the hospital and 3 more before I could function at 90%. I知 still about 90% and don稚 look like it will get better.

Saw a report that normal flu is almost non existent, because of masks and people washing more.

Glad you are improving Eddie, and hope your dad gets well soon.

Take care of yourself- buddy of mine Had GBS and was temporarily paralyzed. Fought his way back to about 95%.

 

[turnkey4099]

Back when I was a kid on the farm, the feedstore would take most of them back and refill with the same feed if the bag was still in good shape. Back in the 70's and 80's we had MFA, Tindles and a local family feedstore in one town.

Back when I was a kid (WWII era) one of the late winter jobs was bringing in the sstacks of empty seed sacs and mending the mouse hole in them...Yep, we were still using horses and running a stationary thresher

 

[Molalla1]

Back when I was a kid (WWII era) one of the late winter jobs was bringing in the sstacks of empty seed sacs and mending the mouse hole in them...Yep, we were still using horses and running a stationary thresher

Old bas turd . . . :laughing: Same here.

 

[shooterdon]

Re: How痴 Eddie?

I am scheduled for the first shot tomorrow. I really do not want to take it but feel I must. I am 70 and my fianc is battling cancer so her immune system is weakened. If there are side effects down the road, my road isn't too long anyway. She is 57 and has more to live for.

I am driving two hours each way to get the shot then doing it again in three weeks.

I pray for all those affected by this atrocity we have are facing. So many deaths that should never have happened ,and so many others suffering.