Pellet Bags/true or not..

I am 54 and lifting up a 5 gal. pail is getting harder for my wife. I can see this with a scoop and a bucket that holds 20 lbs would make life easier for her as well as me.

Bioburner said:

Maintaining a vacuum on large packages is a pain. Then there is the need to keep the sealer clean also to keep the seam sealed. Hard to find a soft vacuumed bag past a gallon without it being inside a larger hard container. Pumping a large vacuum is not that hard with a vane pump.

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My pups have 40lb bag of dog food shipped to the house all the time vaccum sealed well and everything. It may be possible but then the price would shoot up

TonyVideo said:

I am 54 and lifting up a 5 gal. pail is getting harder for my wife. I can see this with a scoop and a bucket that holds 20 lbs would make life easier for her as well as me.

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About 54 or 55 is where it begins. But I got to tell you I never could dream the difference from 60-65. Actually even from 62-65. I really started feeling the difference in many things I thought nothing of doing, between those years was the limit for me with my work and ended up retiring from my job. I had a huge upsurge in my work energy in my late 50's but that faded fast in my 63rd year and on. It not only was harder to lift, twist , push etc but it hurt too and then you realize no this is foolish. Well for me as a heavy truck mech anyway.

LordmetalZ28 said:

My pups have 40lb bag of dog food shipped to the house all the time vaccum sealed well and everything. It may be possible but then the price would shoot up

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Those are probably foil lined bags too - which definitely would make the price go up.

Tonyray said:

just read this on another forum

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I too heard the holes were for letting the excess air escape. I think it may have been covered here many moons ago IIRC. There was also something that might have related to residual heat, But I'm old and can't remember Chit!

I also liked the windex thread you recently posted. Interesting! What is "This other forum" you speak of?

jtakeman said:

I too heard the holes were for letting the excess air escape. I think it may have been covered here many moons ago IIRC. There was also something that might have related to residual heat, But I'm old and can't remember Chit!

I also liked the windex thread you recently posted. Interesting! What is "This other forum" you speak of?

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Off gassing caused by the residual heat (I believe OM) was also one of the reasons for the holes IIRC but I too am very old and further I am actually trying to forget stuff I once knew so I can pass a lie detector test when I tell folks I don't know when I used to. Maybe one could ask ScotL (a member here) as he sort of actually operates a pellet mill.

TonyVideo said:

I am 54 and lifting up a 5 gal. pail is getting harder for my wife. I can see this with a scoop and a bucket that holds 20 lbs would make life easier for her as well as me.

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You need a coal hod or a younger wife .

Must be a lot of nursing homes heating with pellets these days .

SmokeyTheBear said:

You need a coal hod or a younger wife .

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Don't do the younger wife, I can tell you its not all its cracked up to be. I am intrigued by the vacuum sealing of pellet bags. As fragile as they are, I wonder if too much negative pressure inside the bags would crush the pellets..or, could the act of vacuuming draw some fines out with the right filter? Could the bags be formed in a way that they could end up being stacked post vacuum?

Tonyray said:

Don't know if they would stack easier.
like someone here said, would be like stacking balloons that would roll around..

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The key word is 'vacuum', which would give you a tightly compressed 'brick' of pellets until you broke the seal. Same as a 'brick' of yeast. Some coffee is packed like that in a cube.

SidecarFlip said:

On thread, I would assume that ordering bags with perforations or slits would be more expensive that a plain plastic bag.....

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Unless they're bagging by hand, the bags aren't pre-made. They are bought as rolls of printed film folded in half with the fold on the bottom. The bagging machine reads the eyemarks on the film to determine where the impressions are. It cuts and welds the sides and at the same time perforates the film with needles. Then it's filled and the top sealed then palletized then covered with a hood. I linked a video so people can see how it works. Some baggers, like the one in the video, also seal off the bottom corners of the bag so they aren't pointed.

Fsappo said:

Don't do the younger wife.........

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Err..... umm.......gee.......uhhhh....... never mind, I gotta leave that one there, brother !!

DAKSY said:

I think the holes are put in by tree hugging ecoterrorists with ice picks. Just cuz...

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which ones ?? BP, Exxon ? Haliburton ... so many to choose from

DAKSY said:

I think the holes are put in by tree hugging ecoterrorists with ice picks. Just cuz...

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I did see Webbie huddled in a hoodie outsite the NEWP plant. Its all adding up.