Home Forums Miscellaneous Topics Rural Living Opening feed, and seed bags the old way.

For those that do not know, the short end of the string is usually where to start. Not always, but usually. miles

Thanks Miles! I've forgotten so much.

I've been a feed manufacturer all my professional career and sold many thousands of bags of feed to our customers. However, I have fed very few bags of feed to our own livestock and poultry, almost all was bulk. So I didn't know that there was a proper method to pulling the strings on bags. The few times I did open bags I just tried one end, and if that didn't work the other end always did. Thanks for the education. Better late than never.

Thanks for the hint to pull the short end. I only open one or two bags a week (chickens), but couldn’t figure out a consistent method for string pulling. For the last couple years have just been cutting off both string-ends and pulling any string I can get a grip on. Usually works, but still once in awhile nothing works, so just use a knife to cut the &@$?!&$ open!

Have been opening near a ton of 50# and 25kg sacks per week for more than a few years.

The string bags ain’t so bad. You quickly recognize which side to start on. The worst was a malting house that didn’t sew their bags, but glued them. At some point they got some chatty glue and half the bags on a pallet would be failing at the seems before you even started to down stack them.

I hate that, I have three pallets of stitched bags right now I’m working through that we’re stitched poorly. Two with the tape, one without (different manufacturers). Some let go when you pick them up, some when they hit the bed of the pickup. A giant mess, either way. And at $35 to $40 per bag, enough to just make my day every single time.

To me, the old way is grabbing the end of the closure and just yanking up hard. The whole thing will just rip right off if your yank it hard enough.

When we were combining oats many years ago, we would sack the oats in burlap bags as they came out of a chute on the combine. It had two openings.While one was filling, we took the filled bag off and tied off the end with Miller's knot.No fancy stitching.I can remember what it looked like,but can't remember how to tie it.I do remember it came loose with just a pull of the string . Anyone ever use them?

As usual youtube is ones instructional friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IQpqzD2iyI