Re: recycling
This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corinne Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been wondering what to do with all that twine hanging around :-) No seriously, what does everyone do with their grain bags twine? My grain sacks (the woven plastic kind) and baling twine (also plastic) eventually end up in the landfill, although much of it has a second career before getting there. I use baling twine in the garden for my green beans to climb, to support young tomato starts within their cages, to restrain the asperagus ferns within their fences, etc. Of course, it gets used in all manner of places around the ranch, to temporarily patch this, close that, and hold the other up, down, in, out, etc. Baling twine, plus a good pocket knife, can also qualify as the minimalist spares kit for carriage driving. ;-) Grain sacks (well, alfalfa pellets, as my fat Fjords and donkey don't get any grain) are actually in short supply around here. I had to beg some from a neighbor, for my next project---cleaning up under our black walnut tree. The woven plastic sacks are strong enough, but not too big---when filled with walnuts, they're still movable from ground to pickup to dump. And, of course, they get tied closed with baling twine However, talk to your local recycling center. Ours recently said they'd take any kind of plastic, but I haven't checked to see if that includes twine and bags. Marsha Jo HannahMurphy must have been a horseman-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] anything that can go wrong, will! 15 mi SW of Roseburg, Oregon The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
RE: recycling
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marsha Jo, I hope you don't mean you're dumping those black walnuts in the REAL DUMP but just dumping into something else to sell or give away. Aren't they the good ones to eat?Cheryl G. Beck Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:05:17 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Subject: Re: recycling CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corinne Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been wondering what to do with all that twine hanging around :-) No seriously, what does everyone do with their grain bags twine? My grain sacks (the woven plastic kind) and baling twine (also plastic) eventually end up in the landfill, although much of it has a second career before getting there. I use baling twine in the garden for my green beans to climb, to support young tomato starts within their cages, to restrain the asperagus ferns within their fences, etc. Of course, it gets used in all manner of places around the ranch, to temporarily patch this, close that, and hold the other up, down, in, out, etc. Baling twine, plus a good pocket knife, can also qualify as the minimalist spares kit for carriage driving. ;-) Grain sacks (well, alfalfa pellets, as my fat Fjords and donkey don't get any grain) are actually in short supply around here. I had to beg some from a neighbor, for my next project---cleaning up under our black walnut tree. The woven plastic sacks are strong enough, but not too big---when filled with walnuts, they're still movable from ground to pickup to dump. And, of course, they get tied closed with baling twine However, talk to your local recycling center. Ours recently said they'd take any kind of plastic, but I haven't checked to see if that includes twine and bags. Marsha Jo Hannah Murphy must have been a horseman-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] anything that can go wrong, will! 15 mi SW of Roseburg, Oregon The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
Re: recycling
This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope you don't mean you're dumping those black walnuts in the REAL DUMP but just dumping into something else to sell or give away. Aren't they the good ones to eat? Cheryl G. Beck Nope---English walnuts are the good ones. Black walnuts come in a shell so tough that, by the time you've whacked it hard enough to crack the shell, you've pulverized the nutmeat. When we were building our house, numerous loaded concrete transit mixers ran over nuts on the driveway, and all they did was push the whole nuts down into the packed gravel. We call them organic rocks! If we dump them somewhere else on the property, we get fat digger squirrels (don't need to encourage them!) and/or black walnut tree sprouts (ditto). Plus, black walnuts come in a thick wrapper that quickly rots into a disgusting, staining goo, so I want them gone out of my yard, ASAP. The gleaners for the local food pantry won't touch them. In the summer, it's a huge, lovely shade tree, or it would have been long-gone Marsha Jo HannahMurphy must have been a horseman-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] anything that can go wrong, will! 15 mi SW of Roseburg, Oregon The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
