Bag breakage

[Alycidon]

This time last year I had 17 bags of hardwood logs cut mainly from Syc that I did not have undercover space for, so I stacked them outside, 8 under a sheet and 9 fully exposed. The logs dried well all be it the exposed ones get covered in crap from the atmosphere.

 

A couple of weeks ago I moved them under cover, the first one ( a brand new bag when filled) broke one loop when first lifted, moving it a few yards on 3 loops 2 of them then also broke and with all the weight on the one remaining loop the side ripped out of the bag dumping 550 logs in the yard.

 

With 16 to go I thought this was a mistake, but carefull handling meant no other failures. Some of the bags were from Bag Supplies and have been in use since 2010, the failed bag which was on its first fill was from elsewhere when Bag Supplies had no stock but in fairness I had another 6 or 7 from them in the same exposed pile that had no issues not that I dare reuse them and fill them with heavy wet logs.

 

I assume the failure was caused by UV rays, any thoughts, have still got the bag but dont think its worth sending it back.

 

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[scraggs]

We had a load of Granite chips in bags, when I moved them just under a year later all the tops bags just fell apart, which was down to UV.

Bag quality is quite an issue, and print quality is another problem, we currently have a load of bags from MCA where the print rubs off far too easily.