Arggh!! strings on feedbags

Chances are the bag will have a sealed folded bottom. Turn bag upside down and slide fingers through the fold, hey pesto! Open bag, simples!!!!! :)
 
Depends if it is just a plain chain stitch (one thread) or a lock stitch (two threads)

Ordinary Chain stitch
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If its a lock stitch you also follow the same direction but you need to first find the second thread and free it from the other one, then it should open if you pull both threads at the same time.
 
urgh... there are days when you pull at the end that you are supposed to and 'plunk, plunk, plunk' it unravels as it should... but these days are rare.... Knife!!!
 
Spot_the_Risk said:
Heygates feed sacks still open correctly. They have a normal white string and a thicker brown hairy string stitching a tape over the open end, pull it correctly and it opens beautifully every time... And having opened 14 today and every Friday for a local yard I know it works!
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There's my answer then. Heygates make the chicken feed whose string never causes a problem!
 
Dry Rot said:
Yes, a knife. The stitching is chain stitch, so you pull at the end which ends in a double loop, if you follow me. But why bother? I recently asdvertised a few dozen plastic sacks all neatly opened 'free to good home' and did not get a single taker. They al went to land fill. Even my grain merchant, who bags his own grain, did not want them. The throwaway society! :(
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I use my plastic sacks for rubbish, haven't brought a bin liner in years, so I would have loved them. I think you are a little too far away though ...

I gave up with the string years ago. Give me a sharp knife every time.
 
Of course, if you lot had the right breed, you wouldn't need all those bags of fancy hard feed and supplements. My bags come full of whole wheat or barley for the hens and a bag of sugar beet lasts my dozen Highlands at least six months!<vbg>
 
Dry Rot said:
Of course, if you lot had the right breed, you wouldn't need all those bags of fancy hard feed and supplements. My bags come full of whole wheat or barley for the hens and a bag of sugar beet lasts my dozen Highlands at least six months!<vbg>
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Same here! Mine just gets hay in winter if there are several days of frosts, the hens food comes in an easy - pull the piece of paper off. If the horse gets any hard feed she gets Oats, sewn by the feed merchant with his hand held sewing machine - does chain stitch - easy to undo.

I get so mad when feed sacks are hacked open -the mess they make as the edges fray, you get bits of bag caught in the scoop. :eek::mad::eek:
 
Its really easy... Turn the bag upside down. Just pull up the fold on the bottom, and its open! nice and clean too.


Glad someone else does this too :p


Bobbly said:
Chances are the bag will have a sealed folded bottom. Turn bag upside down and slide fingers through the fold, hey pesto! Open bag, simples!!!!! :)
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I thought the other side of the bag - the 'envelope' end, was the easy 'can't do the string, don't have a knife' option? I don't even bother with the string end now, too many failures.

I shall give the next bag a go - having seen the 'way'!!
 
paddi22 said:
Can anyone explain what the knack is to picking the right string to pull across and open the bag cleanly?? I managed it once, but never replicated it, and its annoying me everytime i have to cut a feed bag open! HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THR RIGHT BIT OF STRING Is!??
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i cut it close to the bag then it is easier to do, also it is more often than not the left side
 
As a child, my dad left me in his Austin Allegro at Doncaster station whilst he went trainspotting for a couple of hours. Turns out the upholstery is all held together with lock stitch and I was fascinated to work out that it 'ran' if I pulled it - something that kept me busy the whole time.

He didn't spot it until months later, so I avoided blame, but I never forgot the knack :)
 
I'm off to buy feed. NEED to try this out now. Never mind that I have 2 overweight minis who really don't need feed but I have to try to open a bag after reading this thread. Maybe the dog will eat it!
 
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