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Three Letters Re: Advice on Sources for Sandbags and Sandbag Filler
Jim:
Here is a very low cost supplier of new-manufacture "poly" sandbags: eSandbags.com.
Regards,
- TinCan
Mr. Rawles,
Here in Ohio, (and other places, I suspect), the feed stores formerly bought
back used feed bags for 50 cents a piece. They no longer do. (If a used
bag got
bugs while on the farm, the bugs ended up going back to the mill.) All those
good, heavy, plastic weave bags are now being thrown away. For those of us
wanting cheap or free sand bags, just ask farms and
stables on your area to save them for you. - Jim Fry, Museum
of Western Reserve Farms & Equipment
James:
I'm a dude who used to live in Hurricane Central, Louisiana: Our city office
was one of those sites where whenever tropical trouble or floods threatened,
here would come the Public Works Trucks with a whole bunch
of sand and the sandbags [to distribute free to local residents]. The funny
thing is, they don't make quite the same effort to go around picking up all
these
perfectly
good
supplies
once
the
danger was
passed.
Those white plastic sandbags do indeed breakdown in sunlight, but if you grab
a bunch [before they do degrade] and store them away they will be okay to use
at any time. Even filled with
sand, and placed in a shed for storage, they will last a long time. How do
I know? Did you ever fill sandbags? That is heavy, heavy work!So there is all
this stuff that sat in the corner of our parking lot, free for the taking.
First I placed a box of empty
bags in
my trunk
to get them out of the sunlight. Then each day after work, I filled about
four bags and took them home in the trunk of my car. About 20 sandbags a week.
My former property had a boat storage shed, perfect for lawnmowers & sandbags.
Like the little Ant with the Rubber Tree plant, over time I acquired 300 filled
sandbags--stored for emergencies.
And indeed these bags were used during the approach of Hurricanes
Ivan and Katrina, while preparing my house. Damage was averted thanks to having
these
items on hand and kept ready.
Trust me, if you have to make 100 full load sandbags in a hurry, hen have an
ambulance stand by while you are doing it! As with all preparedness, do
it now while
time is still on your side. - Clyde
