Fertiliser bags

TheFarrier

Does anyone else strip the liner out of half ton fertiliser bags??

I do the odd day on the farm at home when I'm not busy, one job that seems to be left for me is to remove the plastic liners out of the bags, and fill seperate bags with liners and bags.

I'm sat on a pile of gravel in the yard as I type, staring at several dozen bags to be stripped and separated, with a Stanley knife and a heavy heart.

It's pure torture, but the farm plastic removal crowd won't take the bags unless tis done.

I don't know of anyone else that does it, but I assume I'm not alone.

Do you do it??

Dawggone

TheFarrier wrote: »

Does anyone else strip the liner out of half ton fertiliser bags??

I do the odd day on the farm at home when I'm not busy, one job that seems to be left for me is to remove the plastic liners out of the bags, and fill seperate bags with liners and bags.

I'm sat on a pile of gravel in the yard as I type, staring at several dozen bags to be stripped and separated, with a Stanley knife and a heavy heart.

It's pure torture, but the farm plastic removal crowd won't take the bags unless tis done.

I don't know of anyone else that does it, but I assume I'm not alone.

Do you do it??

No. Maguire and Patterson does the job here.

GRASSorMUCK

Dawggone wrote: »

No. Maguire and Patterson does the job here.

Even better get lquid fert in :pac::D
On a (slightly) more helpful note our guys will take bags with liners in but am across the sea...

freedominacup

I just bring them to the veolia site in Waterford. They cost pence to get rid of there. Full ifor williams with 3 bins of unsorted waste and the rest full of recycling waste costs around thirty quid. That would be from three houses. We go once every couple of months. Big saving compared to paying for collection.

TheFarrier

We have to draw them to the nearest collection point, usually two to three loads(silage trailers), including old bale wrap, but one of the days we were asked to un pack all the half-tonne bags of old half- tonne bags, and strip the liners out of all the bags.
Myself and the boss were stuck cutting and splitting bags, 'twas only after we considered that maybe we had been cutting up other people's bags of fert. Disaster.

As far as I know, noone else has to strip the shagging bags.

But sure look, you have to chance these things.

Zoo4m8

Your not on your own..I have to do it here, crap job right enough. Try to do it as I use the bags so it doesn't seem quite as bad. Use a wire snips to cut the cable tie holding the inner, less chance of doing myself an injury when in a hurry..:)
And while I'm at it, crush the spray containers and pack them into an outer ...

Zoo4m8

Dawggone wrote: »

No. Maguire and Patterson does the job here.

Not much use for that company's services round here.. Seem to be under survellience all the time nowadays , hardly dare light a fag in the yard in case the smoke was spotted....:)
Neighbour last year lit a small fire at the back of his yard at dusk, mostly garden hedge trimmings, next thing the fire brigade bombed into his yard, some bastard had rung them and he was hit for a €600 call out charge.. A phone call to the right person sorted that one.. But it's just another way our choices are being curtailed.

Bongalongherb

The old granny of mine in Buncrana Co. Donegal uses a lot of fertilizers for her 5 acre's of land. She sorts and mixes them with some strange plants and other strange lubricants. I'm not sure of the mixtures...

Four weeks ago she three/quarter filled her barn of which is connected to her bogwell of her so-called home-made fertiliser, and have a guess what the **** happened ?... there we were on the farm sleeping listening to the howl of the animals for the night, twittering birds placidly making music, and I'm verbally abused forcefully out of bed to help put this abomination of a fire out ? with what, I said ? Jump on it ?.

Well the granny is ok, but my head is not. I wonder what caused the explosion in the barn ?. What herb or plant got mixed with her fertiliser ? did this odd mixture of herbs and rare plants cause a chemical reaction in the barn ?.

I'll leave it up to you to decide.

tripperman

Zoo4m8 wrote: »

Not much use for that company's services round here.. Seem to be under survellience all the time nowadays , hardly dare light a fag in the yard in case the smoke was spotted....:)
Neighbour last year lit a small fire at the back of his yard at dusk, mostly garden hedge trimmings, next thing the fire brigade bombed into his yard, some bastard had rung them and he was hit for a €600 call out charge.. A phone call to the right person sorted that one.. But it's just another way our choices are being curtailed.

ah that happened up my country, the man lived in a mile of a lane was 70 had his gate locked put the trimmings omn fire and someone sent for the fire crew, they cut his gate down and billed him, and sent the envirmoent officer to him, he only had two barrows of clippings!!

Zr105

Strip them out here, normally a good sharp pull on the liner will break it free from the outer whilst their hanging from the loader, if not a lot of them are now tied with a little rope rather than a cable tie