Jenni Hen
Songster
We buy briquettes of compresses sawdust for the wood burner and asked if we could have the plastic sacks refilled. The reply was apologetic, but that the sacks once used could no longer fit to the machine that fills them.I really like my safety goggles when I work in dusty conditions, and, like I said, when I am concerned about tiny parts of metal brush wheels flying off and hitting me in the eyes. The trick is to find a pair that don't fog up. But they do provide more protection than safety glasses or even safety glasses with side pieces.
Just thinking about any dust accumulation on the glasses and then you are taking them on and off with dust on them already. Probably not a big deal in normal times, but recovery from surgery I would attempt to clean the glasses between use.
My father never took safety as a major concern. He was lucky to never have been seriously injured.
I was taught safety first before we were allowed to use any of the shop tools in school. I really continued my "good habits" of using protective equipment in real life. I have glasses, goggles, and shields to protect the eyes; ear plugs and headphones to protect my hearing, gloves for the hands, boots for the feet, and work vests and other clothing as need to protect my body. It's pretty much second nature for me.
That's a good use for the empty feedbags.
I have a couple stacks of empty feedbags and am always looking for a second life for them. We used to be able to take them to the feed mill and have them refilled. The laws changed and now you have to buy a new bag each time, and I think they charge $1.50 per bag. I can see them not being able to reuse bags at the mill when selling feed off the floor, but if someone brings in their own empty, used, feedbags for a refill, I don't see what harm that cause. Anyway, I now have a couple of stacks of empty feedbags in storage ready to be used for something.
Last winter I filled some of them with empty plastic milk containers and fastened the tops to make insulation panels. I stuck these wherever I thought they might help! In Spring they were repuporsed into moveable barriers to control where the chickens went.
I also used some of the bags for weatherproofing the run. It has a sort of funny gable shape and the end and I'd planned to leave the ends open for ventilation. However, the winter wind often blew the rain inside and the damp draught was unpleasant anyway. I just made holes at either end of the bags, threaded string through the holes, and tied them onto the run wherever I wanted to block the wind. It wasn't really a pretty sight but it worked.