Ideas to use burlap bags

[JustMe]

Be careful Caribou you are telling your age with that post, most don’t even know what a swamp cooler is anymore. Heck I haven’t seen one in my area in at least 20 years.

I didn't really know what a swamp cooler was, but have heard the term many times. I was thinking holding stuff in a creek or river so it didn't get washed downstream to keep it cool, like we used to do when camping. Maybe that's a redneck cooler, IDK

 

[joel]

Never used or heard of a swamp cooler as a child, learned about them on the internet.
But from what little I understand, burlap would work.
In my twenties, I stopped at a intown greenhouse that a swamp cooler to add humidity to the plant as well as cool the heat of the day in summer.
Never knew it as a swamp cooler, just that it cold be used in a greenhouse.

 

[dademoss]

Big burlap sacks and concrete blocks have their uses: REDACTED

 

[Mountain trapper]

Be careful Caribou you are telling your age with that post, most don’t even know what a swamp cooler is anymore. Heck I haven’t seen one in my area in at least 20 years.

Do you remember the water bags that we used to hang in front of the cars radiator? Kept the water cool.

 

[Neb]

Big burlap sacks and concrete blocks have their uses: REDACTED

Did you change your avatar for that post?

Ben

 

[dademoss]

Did you change your avatar for that post?

Ben

I did.

 

[Acdoctor]

Big burlap sacks and concrete blocks have their uses: REDACTED

If im not mistaken that was an old school cat fish feeder wasn’t it. Lol

 

[Acdoctor]

Do you remember the water bags that we used to hang in front of the cars radiator? Kept the water cool.

No I don’t think I remember that one.

 

[dademoss]

Do you remember the water bags that we used to hang in front of the cars radiator? Kept the water cool.

Not first hand, a lesson from Dad and/or Grandpa. Same with swamp coolers, they dont' work worth a in Cincinnati.

I learned to cook/heat food on an exhaust manifold too

 

[Neb]

Not first hand, a lesson from Dad and/or Grandpa. Same with swamp coolers, they dont' work worth a in Cincinnati.

I learned to cook/heat food on an exhaust manifold too

Same here!

With high humidity they only make things worse.



Ben

 

[Haertig]

Never used or heard of a swamp cooler as a child

They are a dry climate thing. They don't work in high humidity places.

 

[Neb]

They are a dry climate thing. They don't work in high humidity places.

Yup.

The cooling capacity is due to water evaporating. Evaporation is a cooling process. But round here we have the moisture if the Great Lakes that saturates the air.

They don't work when we need them.

SW PA

Ben

 

[Weedygarden]

Be careful Caribou you are telling your age with that post, most don’t even know what a swamp cooler is anymore. Heck I haven’t seen one in my area in at least 20 years.

Everyone on my street has a swamp cooler, all 5 of us! Many people have them here. They are popular in Colorado because of how arid it is here.

 

[Terri9630]

It’s a cheap and effective way of cooling that’s for sure, it’s just puts too much moisture into the space being cooled here in the south, humid enough already. Some of the older mom and pop stores out in the country still have them but hardly ever see the being used anymore.

They work great on all but what we call humid days in the desert.

 

[Weedygarden]

Everyone on my street has a swamp cooler, all 5 of us! Many people have them here. They are popular in Colorado because of how arid it is here.

Another thing about swamp coolers is that they are simple and straight forward as far as parts and function are concerned. They are easy to maintain and to replace parts in.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Curtains, bags for nuts(walnuts, pecans,)

 

[SheepDog]

It'll work for all kinds of nuts if you tie it tight enough

 

[Weedygarden]

I've seen burlap bags used to cover walls, stapled on.

 

[joel]

Knew a deer hunter who field dressed a deer & put the organs in a burlap sack & sit in the river, so it will not dry out. When he came back for it, the catfish where all around the sack.

 

[kenv1950]

things they were used for before the internet.