Uses for emtpy feed sacks

[Elf On A Shelf]

Round here they are generally used for rubbish, the big plastic alfa sacks are especially prized for this!

But I have just found a great use for a paper sack that got ripped - I have ripped it up, scrunched it up and used it as packing in a box around clippers I am sending away to be serviced and repaired when they open the box they are going to get a whiff of D&H Youngstock Mix

 

[Fjord]

That's a great idea!

 

[tda]

Or tear it up and use it to light the fire/stove if you have one

 

[Widgeon]

Or tear it up and use it to light the fire/stove if you have one

Yes - paper gets saved for the fire, but all the plastic sacks trouble me! I haven't had any clever ideas for them yet though.

 

[Cowpony]

We hang them up with a string in places where people store hay and straw. Then when you open a new bale you have somewhere to put the string. Anybody needing some twine to cut the strings on their bale grabs one out of the sack. Occasionally they are full and get chucked out.

 

[J&S]

I fill mine with ponies poo and sell either at the gate or to my regular who has a huge allotment and grows for his family and the foodbank. They get recycled many times.

 

[Vodkagirly]

My husband is using my plastic feed bags for growing potatoes, filled with rotted manure. Apparently much easier than digging then out of a bed

 

[Britestar]

I use a sewing machine and turn them into reuseable bags.

 

[Cragrat]

I use a sewing machine and turn them into reuseable bags.

Wow! Like supermarket bag for life style?

 

[Melandmary]

I fill mine with poo and leave them at the gate for people to take….tbh it is harder work and more time consuming that just barrowing it to the muck heap so I ought to charge for it but feel a bit mean when I have been giving it away for so long. I try to think of it as good exercise pushing it up the steep drive . I use the paper bags as rubbish bags and save some plastic ones for filling with hay when the grass has gone in winter so I can weigh the bags and leave in piles around the field

 

[Palindrome]

I use the plastic feed bags to protect the floor or furniture when I am painting. I am testing using the haylage wrapper for the vegetable patch : layed down as a tarp with holes for the plants to grow through. This is to prevent weeds from growing and to keep moisture in the soil. So far the tomatoes and courgettes plants with haylage wrapper are doing better than those without.

ETA : I also use the haylage string net to protect raspberries and strawberries, with mixed results.

 

[Surbie]

I use paper feed sacks in the footwells of my car to keep the worst of the mud at bay. In winter they are doubled up.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I save a few for abcess turnout and have cut a few to size and thoroughly washed to post stuff in as it's so tough and cheaper and quicker than buying postage bags.

 

[Wizpop]

I also use mine for posting bags- turned inside out and washed.

 

[Britestar]

Wow! Like supermarket bag for life style?

Yes.
Easy enough to make.

 

[marmalade76]

I have been using them as bin bags since I picked up a roll of bin liners in Morrisons and noticed the price - £2.50! I thought what the hell am I doing? I've got loads of empty sacks at the yard! I haven't bought any bin liners since.

They don't fit in the bin as well as bin liners do but they are definitely stronger and don't rip when I put them out.

 

[KJ94]

Putting ragwort in when pulling from field then emptying and using again.

Have also duck taped a few together as a makeshift tarp to put over stored hay (not paper ones)

 

[Cragrat]

Yes.
Easy enough to make.

i'm impressed! Bet they look much more interesting than the supermarket ones

 

[Steerpike]

We use the paper sacks for lighting our fires in winter and the bag my chaff comes in is black inside so I turn them inside out and use them for the hard rubbish that I can't recycle.

 

[asmp]

Yes.
Easy enough to make.

We need pics!

 

[Highmileagecob]

The big bags are useful for storing folded rugs.
We also have bags for baling twine.
Last winter I was using chopped veteran haylage, which is difficult to get out of the bag. Slit the bag open, pop an empty graze on bag over it, upend the lot and remove the haylage bag.
Emergency patches for a leaky stable - stick down with a waterproof compound, bathroom sealant etc..

 

[clairebearfur1]

Our local guy who sells turf takes mine and puts turf in them and sells them. i hate to throw them away like to see them being used! Also you could be creative and buy one of those we things on amazon that you make blocks for the fire from horse dung and sell them in bags

 

[Abacus]

Yes - paper gets saved for the fire, but all the plastic sacks trouble me! I haven't had any clever ideas for them yet though.

I also use plastic sacks as bin bags, and paper ones for lighting fires. Also since my recycling bin broke and I haven't bought a new one, I just have a paper sack in my utility room in which I put the recycling - when it's full pop the whole thing in the wheelie bin. It doesn't look elegant, but nor does the rest of my utility room.

 

[Fransurrey]

I use paper sacks for storing onions or potatoes from the garden. If I had an excess I'd use to keep weeds down on the plot over winter. Plastic ones are used as rubbish bags. I haven't bought a bin bag for decades!

 

[Birker2020]

Round here they are generally used for rubbish, the big plastic alfa sacks are especially prized for this!

But I have just found a great use for a paper sack that got ripped - I have ripped it up, scrunched it up and used it as packing in a box around clippers I am sending away to be serviced and repaired when they open the box they are going to get a whiff of D&H Youngstock Mix

Spotted the retirement place had put the bottoms of their tied up electric fence posts in a plastic feed bag. I'd just taken all my fencing down earlier that week and tied them into piles but just slung them in my area of pallets and the metal spikes kept getting caught up on everything so thought it was a brilliant idea.

Also the plastic type of feed bags I make into a round shape and put on top of an upturned bucket in my feed dustbin so that my feed skip can rest on it so it is at the top of the bin save the staff reaching down to reach it from the bottom.