canvas bags

Tonne bags

Colin Bignell

Bulk bag, jumbo bag, open top builders bag, dumpy bag or similar usually.

Never bought one on its own personally (I usually get mine free with a ton of sand or similar), so I don't know.

Plenty of specialist sellers of them out there on the net.

Sometimes you can blag an empty one from where some DIY has taken place. I got 2 reasonable ones from the verge well away from any buildings.

Obviously "Big bags"

They cost around a tenner. Obvoiusly loose delivery is cheaper (but often more wasteful). Some builders merchants don't deliver loose bcause they have no means of weighing. They get the big bags in ready filled.

What they weight depends whats in them. Most around 750Kg.

I thought I'd won some once, but the instructions were to cut them open ..

I've got to fill four of them tomorrow with pea shingle. I have a stash of them I use for logs and storing surplus ballast and sand but I always put them on a pallet as the strength markedly declines after a few weeks in the sun (amhik !) For the shingle I'll use some that came full of pig feed, as they have a spout at the bottom that you tie off before filling, and can empty though without cutting the bag (given a forklift to raise them)

AWEM

bulk bags

You can get them for free, as most BM's take them back but won't reuse them. OK for compost or leaf mould ... but they do rot.

In article , Andrew Mawson writes

I'm sure you wont be hanging about under them but take care, some are certified for weight and some are not (or to different levels) so one for pig nuts might be a lower spec.

Found this out when I went to buy a couple and was asked the intended use, uncertified were half the price of proper ton ones.

Thanks for the caveat, but been there and done it quite a few times now. NEVER eat your sandwiches under a suspended load!

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In message , Andrew Mawson writes

Worth trying a cereal farmer in the Autumn as most seed corn is delivered in spouted big bags. Caution, may hold more than a tonne of sand etc.

In article , Andrew Mawson writes

Knew you'd be careful :-)

You see them discarded in skips.

If you cut the square panels out, leaving just the long rectangle that forms the other 3 sides, and nail wooden stretchers across the ends, they make a good hammock.

I buy bark chips in them. If I supply the bag it save me 7.50.