Charcoal Bags

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I've been thinking about trying to sell a small amount of charcoal at our local village market - novelty and publicity!

 

Managed to get round to making my first batch this week,but not sure about what to bag it in,or to be more precise,how to close the paper bags up,most that I have seen have been stitched,at this stage this isn't an option - so I was thinking of rolling the top of the bag over and using three or four staples,has anyone got any better ideas?

 

some pic's of the first outing!

 

Cheers

Steve

[Ty Unnos]

Selway E-commerce website

 

They also do plain ones. They are stitched along the top and open along the bottom. You fill them upside down, fold over a few times and then staple. Then when you flip the bag over it is stitched along the top and looks 'proper'

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Selway E-commerce website

 

They also do plain ones. They are stitched along the top and open along the bottom. You fill them upside down, fold over a few times and then staple. Then when you flip the bag over it is stitched along the top and looks 'proper'

 

Excellent,many thanks for that,just what I wanted to know

 

Cheers

Steve

[windfall]

Any tips on making the barrel kilns?

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Those ones were very straigntforward as they had a full size lid that was secured by a clamp - so just a case of cutting the bottom out with a plasma cutter,leaving a 2" ledge around the edge for the lid to sit on. the lid was then cut to leave about 1/2" of the ledge showing - so that you can get a good soil/sand seal.

 

If using a normal oil drum I think the procedure is to cut the bottom out completely,then cut the top out leaving the 2" ledge - also leave the metal around the filler and air holes in place (so the hole isn't round,it actually has two small flats on it,then use the cut out bottom piece to make the lid as above.

 

Then remove all burrs!

 

Cheers

Steve

[Nick Watkins]

Yours look much sturdier than the normal drums, almost like large beer barrels. Nice job.

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Yeah they are pretty sturdy - and the best bit is that they are stainless steel,think they were used for holding syrup before I got my mitts on them - on the downside it's not so easy to see the heat discolouration to check for hot - spots whilst burning

 

Cheers

Steve

[Chris Sheppard]

Selway E-commerce website

 

They also do plain ones. They are stitched along the top and open along the bottom. You fill them upside down, fold over a few times and then staple. Then when you flip the bag over it is stitched along the top and looks 'proper'

 

They look good - postage seems steep though @ £18odd for a pack of 50 bags as that's nearly 70p to come off each bag jut on the bags. Oddly though, their plain ones are more expensive

Edited April 3, 2012 by Chris Sheppard

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Yeah Chris - they arrived this morning,look very good,can't wait to fill them up!

 

The delivery cost was a bit steep,I only went for 50,but to be fair they did try to sell me more as the postage was the same !! but it's just a toe in the water at the moment,could be ordering more if things go well.

 

Cheers

Steve

[Chris Sheppard]

Yeah Chris - they arrived this morning,look very good,can't wait to fill them up!

 

The delivery cost was a bit steep,I only went for 50,but to be fair they did try to sell me more as the postage was the same !! but it's just a toe in the water at the moment,could be ordering more if things go well.

 

Cheers

Steve

 

Which size did you go for Steve? I was trying to picture each one full and which I thought might be the more popular - quite fancied trying the small ones.