When I was a lot younger, for a little extra money, I would help my friends unload a train box car on the siding at our local feed store, every couple months. Back in the 50's we didn't make much, maybe $10.00 or $15.00. It was usually fairly full. A lot of chicken feed came in 100 lb sacks, with some sort of flower design to be made into clothes. Anyone remember those colored sacks? I have never seen feed come in 100 lb bags anymore, have you? Stan
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I?ve never done it but I remember as late as the early 90?s some of my friends used to help load cargo ship hulls with 110lb bags of potatoes. I think they got around $100/ day. I was too busy at home to join in. I think the elevators are the only ones with big feed bags now around here, 88 lbs.
Steve@Advance
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I can remember seeing the cloth feed sacks.
Even seen some of the girls in grade school wearing clothes made of them. That was in the early 60's.
I worked at a pasta factory a few years ago. The ol' times told me stories of hand unloading box cars of semolina flour in 100 lb cloth bags.
Semolina is like fine sand, finer than corn meal, coarser than baking flour. It would seep through the bags. Unloading the bags was the worst job on the place. Everyone able body enough had to take their turn. They would carry the bag on their back. After a day of unloading, their hands and back would be rubbed bloody from the gritty flour!
Even seen some of the girls in grade school wearing clothes made of them. That was in the early 60's.
I worked at a pasta factory a few years ago. The ol' times told me stories of hand unloading box cars of semolina flour in 100 lb cloth bags.
Semolina is like fine sand, finer than corn meal, coarser than baking flour. It would seep through the bags. Unloading the bags was the worst job on the place. Everyone able body enough had to take their turn. They would carry the bag on their back. After a day of unloading, their hands and back would be rubbed bloody from the gritty flour!
Dennis Minn
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37 chief,
I have a blanket made of flour sacks. My grandmother made it, I don't how many kids it kept warm, but it is one of my precious earthly belonging.
Thanks for a trip down the old memory lane.
D.
I have a blanket made of flour sacks. My grandmother made it, I don't how many kids it kept warm, but it is one of my precious earthly belonging.
Thanks for a trip down the old memory lane.
D.
Ellis Kinney
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Both of my Aunts made me feed sack shirts when I was in grade school. I wish I still had one. Ellis
Just a little wise crack. I remember those pretty designed feed sack very well. My mother made lots of things from them from aprons for her to shirts for us boys. I also remember the old Pillsbury 4xxxx flour bags She used them for diapers and the ink on those bags would bleed out. Don't you know I was nearly 21 years old when I finally got them 4xxxx washed off my rear end.
John in Md.
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I still buy laying mash and pig feed in 100 lb plastic bags. They have 50's but its $1.20 more per 100.
Goose
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When I was a kid, there was a "fun house" on a local amusement park. You walked down a narrow aisle to enter the place, and there was a jet of compressed air in the floor aimed upward at one point. An operator sat at a booth properly located so he could operate a foot valve and see how many women's skirts he could blow up.
Most women knew about it and didn't seem to care. In fact, some probably enjoyed it. When one woman had her skirt blown up, it said "Gooche's Best" on the back of her underpants.
There are probably all manner of privacy laws against something like that today.
Most women knew about it and didn't seem to care. In fact, some probably enjoyed it. When one woman had her skirt blown up, it said "Gooche's Best" on the back of her underpants.
There are probably all manner of privacy laws against something like that today.
Eldon (WA)
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I remember getting the free rubber cups in the bags of milk replacer....
Russ from MN
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Portland cement is sold by volume, and 1 cubic foot is about 94 pounds, that's why the odd size. And they seem heavier than they used to be!
Richard G.
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My Mama made my shirts out of those sacks.
Richard in NW SC
Richard in NW SC
Bruce from Can.
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My mama preferred sugar sacks to flour bags. Because the sugar sacks used a dye for the printing on the bag that could be bleached out easily. Made snowy white pillow cases, and she used to embroider some fancy work on to them.
Texasmark1
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Hmph! Never gave it a serious enough thought to investigate, but did wonder about the weight of the bag and specific weight at that being odd. Thanks for the tip. Do agree that they are heavy and get heavier daily.
I use a lot of things these days to do the lifting for me and along with light weight, "Dr Scholls" type insole padded shoes vs heavy work boots, my leg joints and back have all but quit hurting me after all these years. My sweetie kept buying them for me and nagging about wearing so I finally caved in and the rest is history. I told her to not let it go to her head as I had plenty of wearable attire and she didn't need to be buying me any more, at least for the foreseeable future.
I use a lot of things these days to do the lifting for me and along with light weight, "Dr Scholls" type insole padded shoes vs heavy work boots, my leg joints and back have all but quit hurting me after all these years. My sweetie kept buying them for me and nagging about wearing so I finally caved in and the rest is history. I told her to not let it go to her head as I had plenty of wearable attire and she didn't need to be buying me any more, at least for the foreseeable future.
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