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[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.