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.
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