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Re: Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!
« Reply #20 on: December 28, 2008, 05:10:31 PM »
There are cloth sacks used in factories for flour and other things but they usually hold from 250 pounds up to a ton. Anything consumer-size is paper or plastic. I think my mom still has dish towels made from flour sacks.
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Re: Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!
« Reply #21 on: December 28, 2008, 07:22:01 PM »
My great grandmother recycled neck ties, she made quilts out of them, I have one she made for me when I was an infant.
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Re: Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!
« Reply #22 on: December 28, 2008, 07:52:02 PM »
Quote from: runstowin on December 28, 2008, 07:22:01 PM
My great grandmother recycled neck ties, she made quilts out of them, I have one she made for me when I was an infant.

"Patch work" quilts are considered "folk art" and can bring surprising prices.
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Re: Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!
« Reply #23 on: December 28, 2008, 08:01:26 PM »
Quote from: alfsauve on December 28, 2008, 10:18:24 AM
I can't remember the last time I saw any product in a cloth sack?   Yes, I remember when they did.   My dad was a wholesale grocer and I unloaded tons of flour and grain in cloth sacks.   But that was a few years ago.  Are the larger containers still cloth? 

The only thing left I am aware of is burlap for 100# bags of bran.  Never knew how many uses I could find for burlap until I had it.
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Re: Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!
« Reply #24 on: December 28, 2008, 08:03:44 PM »
Quote from: m58 on December 28, 2008, 08:01:26 PM
The only thing left I am aware of is burlap for 100# bags of bran.  Never knew how many uses I could find for burlap until I had it.


You buy bran 100 pounds at a time ?   :o  DUDE, Your problem may not be lack of fiber
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Re: Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!
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Re: Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!
« Reply #25 on: December 28, 2008, 08:05:01 PM »
I'm trying to figure out how many lifetimes 100 pounds of bran would last.
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Re: Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!
« Reply #26 on: December 28, 2008, 08:07:42 PM »
I don't know how many lifetimes but you'd probably wear out 2 or 3 a$$holes.
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Re: Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!
« Reply #27 on: December 28, 2008, 08:14:36 PM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on December 28, 2008, 08:05:01 PM
I'm trying to figure out how many lifetimes 100 pounds of bran would last.

In a previous life we farmed and had a farrow to finish operation.  Feed for the farrowing barn had 200 pounds of bran in a ton of feed.  Works on sows just like old men ... and you ain't seen nothing until you've seen, or worked with, a 400 pound constipated sow!
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Re: Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!
« Reply #28 on: December 28, 2008, 08:17:58 PM »
Quote from: m58 on December 28, 2008, 08:14:36 PM
In a previous life we farmed and had a farrow to finish operation.  Feed for the farrowing barn had 200 pounds of bran in a ton of feed.  Works on sows just like old men ... and you ain't seen nothing until you've seen, or worked with, a 400 pound constipated sow!

I want to continue 'ain't seen nothing'.
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Re: Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!
« Reply #29 on: December 28, 2008, 08:39:01 PM »
Quote from: m58 on December 28, 2008, 08:14:36 PM
In a previous life we farmed and had a farrow to finish operation.  Feed for the farrowing barn had 200 pounds of bran in a ton of feed.  Works on sows just like old men ... and you ain't seen nothing until you've seen, or worked with, a 400 pound constipated sow!

And sow's ain't something to be around even when they're not constipated! Always fed mine with veggies from the local market - all I had to do was ask and they put aside all of their "bad" produce and I picked it up and fed it to the pigs.

One season, couldn't face pigs 2 years in a row, lost my shirt on 'em too.
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