ICI dumpy bags
- Thread starter MJB
- Start date
Kids are still up so up the hatch and found this.
Is it the one?
Is it the one?
DeeGee
Member
- Location
- North East Wales
Thank you. But it’s not that one he was with a taskers fertiliser spreader with a Ford 6600 and loader. He used to have one in the farm office filing cabinet but I think he binned it all when he retired
What was your Dad’s name if you don’t mind me asking, I was involved with them in the seventies and I well remember the dumpy bags. Was he a farmer that used them or an employee of ICI?
- Location
- Hampshire
I remember using them, and we finished up with a big stack of the wooden pallet bits. I asked the supplier if they wanted to pick them up to re use them, but they said that that would upset their supplier, so wouldn't do it. Eventually gave them to a neighbour who made them into excellent seats for his barn dances instead of straw bales.
- Location
- S. Staffs
Chopped all ours up for kindling!
I was delighted when Dumpys came in, unfortunately my back was already knackered from chucking 50kg bags about for years.
I was delighted when Dumpys came in, unfortunately my back was already knackered from chucking 50kg bags about for years.
Rowland
Member
- Location
- Northeast England
We only ever had a few as we had to get our neighbour to unload them as we didn't have a forklift then we had the problem of load info spreader so it was back to cwt bags ( 50kg) . Not sure if I could fill a spreader up with them now .
Half ton bags were my saviour.
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Before they had these , they had plastic slings which held I think 10 hundredweight sacks.
They worked OK but they were a b**** to stack nicely and the stacks werre always falling everywhere. Think the lorry drivers hated them. And after a couple of years we were left with a hundred odd slings to dispose of, luckily environmental rules were not as strict then!
They worked OK but they were a b**** to stack nicely and the stacks werre always falling everywhere. Think the lorry drivers hated them. And after a couple of years we were left with a hundred odd slings to dispose of, luckily environmental rules were not as strict then!