After reading about increased levels of fertiliser bag recycling, the Dealer received some correspondence from a farmer who discovered how the bags were reused in the 1960s.
Ahead of their time or saving a few bob? A farmer discovered an alternative to felt was used on the roof of an extension that was built at some point in the early 1960s.
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I read in last week’s pages that there was a 30% increase in the recycling of fertiliser bags. That news was barely digested when a photo made its way to me showing evidence of a use for the old bags other than carrying turf, timber or meal for calves.
After removing the ceiling while renovating an extension of an old farmhouse, it was revealed that instead of felt under the roof there were old 10:10:20 bags. The Munster-based farmers said the thick plastic bags seemed to have worked a treat with no evidence of rain getting in since it was built in the 1960s.
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I read in last week’s pages that there was a 30% increase in the recycling of fertiliser bags. That news was barely digested when a photo made its way to me showing evidence of a use for the old bags other than carrying turf, timber or meal for calves.
After removing the ceiling while renovating an extension of an old farmhouse, it was revealed that instead of felt under the roof there were old 10:10:20 bags. The Munster-based farmers said the thick plastic bags seemed to have worked a treat with no evidence of rain getting in since it was built in the 1960s.
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