My best ways to carry stuff in sack thread.

[eesakiwi]

I carry around lot of metal in sacks to & from places.

In that time Iv'e come up with a few handy hints on carrying them around on my back.

If the sack is about 1/3 to 3/4 full, the angle on where you carrying them opens you hands & you have to compensate for that with strength.
That saps your energy & makes the job harder.

How to fix that for a long trek & also for a real quick shifting of the sack.

Open a hole in the sack real close to near where the level of the stuff inside it ends.
Don't cut it.
Normally the sacks fibers will spread enough by poking a hole in it & then shoving something into it & forcing it open enough.
Now grab the top edge of the sack & poke it down & into the hole from the inside.

Once some of the sack has come out thru the hole, grab that & pull on it till its all outside the sack & tight.
Now the top of the sack is flatish & the carrying part it just like a rope is, a round nylon tube 1inch in diameter.

The top of the sack is pretty much closed & stuff won't fall out of it to.
You can now carry that on your shoulder blade, not hanging way down your back & dragging you down.


For a real short trek where you are just picking them up by one hand & dragging it a few meters.
Same idea really, you can grab the end of the rope & lift & swing it underarm a few meters at a time
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For a really really long trek.
This is for when you really need a proper tramping backpack.
You need a old cars seatblelt, don't use a rope, it'll get so tight the knots won't come open again.
The seat belts flat & spreads the load on your shoulder, while a rope will cut into you & take your energy.

Take your sack & put a bit of wood a bit smaller than a golfball & roundish into the bottom of one corner.
You could use a stone but a bit of woods lighter.
Take your safety belt & tie one end of it just above the bit of wood, tie it once & then tie it around the knot tighter again.

Put your materials in the sack, close the neck down & twist it tight, now tie the other end of the safety belt around its neck, do that once & then again under the first knot, three times if you can.
Now lift the sack up onto something & get your arm & head & collar in thru under the safety belt, tip forward & take the load & walk off.

Once you get where you are going you can undo the knot pretty quickly.
With rope it'd cut into you, take your energy & the knot will be so tight it won't undo.
You could also use two belts for both shoulders.

I have found one to be enough & the heavyest load I have done is 70Kg (154Lb?) over 10+ city blocks.
That was two small industrial fridge compressors & two normal ones & a electric motor & various Ali bits & wire.
On the way back the compressors were still leaking oil & the sack & my jeans were soaked in it, all down my back.

[Derek Fay]

i use my hiking back pack. distributing the weight on your hips vs. your back helps a ton!

[Dumpster-Dee]

wow kiwi.....that was quite a read !!! I'm curious. Where do you get your sacks and what originally comes in them. In my area SW Georgia, USA , we don't come across cloth sacks much anymore. That's why you hear us talk about buckets so much! Most of our bulk products come in plastic buckets now. Maybe you should consider a business shipping sacks to scrappers in the U.S. !! Thanks for taking the time to post your methods.

[newattitude]

Oh yikes my eyes are spinning trying to picture all that, lol. What kind of sacks are you using exactly for this? Cant be plastic no way would plastic hold that much weight. I've never come across any knit sacks that size. Oh! Old potato sacks would be something like you use I bet!

[Dumpster-Dee]

attitude, do you always skip over my posts without reading them like that ????!!!! lol

[EcoSafe]

Im sure hes talking about "gunney" sacks" Goober bags, tote sacks. Hobo luggage.

Dee your from s Ga and ya couldnt figgure that out. Now if yur really strong try a cotton picken sack. I drug a few of those in my day too while wearin a home made flour sack shirt. Your Idea of importing sacks may well be a very very good Idea. the problem with a gunney sack is the metal will give you fits getting it in and out of the sack.
a canvas sack would be better.

[Dumpster-Dee]

my grandma made my first cotton sack (for picking cotton) out of a flour sack when I was four or five. And the burlap bag was always called a kroker sack because the majority were made for Kroker Brand fertilizer. Yep, I'm getting old.

[eesakiwi]

Arh, I use coal sacks normally, plastic sacks that carry about 40Kg of coal.
Sacks are pretty common here in NZ, weird how different parts of the world have differing items.

Their other uses are grass & wheat seed & feed sacks, some have a thin plastic liner & others are different dimensions.

I tend to sort the metals out into similar sacks, like a clean white sack for clean Ali, dirty white for Ali castings.
Orange for Copper wire & dirty orange for burnt copper wire.

I find them, most are windblown, found on fences & the side of the road etc.
If theres a bunch somewhere, most times theres one sack thats full of sacks.

Very handy, oh, that was 70Kg in one sack......