Canvas water bag...useful???
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kai38
Explorer
I have one, you need to prep it buy soaking it in boiling hot water. Then soak it in a bucket of water before each use.
Fill it up and hang off front bumper, by the time you get where you are going it has all leaked out.
From what I was told in the old days, people use to hang them in front of the radiator and the air moving through and around the wet bag would cool off the radiator.
Fill it up and hang off front bumper, by the time you get where you are going it has all leaked out.
From what I was told in the old days, people use to hang them in front of the radiator and the air moving through and around the wet bag would cool off the radiator.
4xdog
Explorer
That bag looks almost new. In fact it probably IS new... They're still available from the original maker:
http://can-spec.com/canspec/products/products.php?ID=14
I remember our family's big expedition from Southeastern Ohio to the Pacific Ocean and tons between in 1970. Six weeks in a '67 Plymouth Belvedere station wagon towing an Apache Eagle tent trailer. That trip changed my life more than any I've taken before or since. And we had one of those flax bags hanging from the hood ornament for thousands of miles. It was a treat to stop for a break and enjoy the evaporatively-chilled water from it.
Nice souvenir of a different age.
Don
http://can-spec.com/canspec/products/products.php?ID=14
I remember our family's big expedition from Southeastern Ohio to the Pacific Ocean and tons between in 1970. Six weeks in a '67 Plymouth Belvedere station wagon towing an Apache Eagle tent trailer. That trip changed my life more than any I've taken before or since. And we had one of those flax bags hanging from the hood ornament for thousands of miles. It was a treat to stop for a break and enjoy the evaporatively-chilled water from it.
Nice souvenir of a different age.
Don
Flagster
Expedition Leader
Why boiling??? to set the canvas?...I soaked it for about 3 hours tonight and it holds water pretty well...few drips...figure you could fill it and have water in it for about 5 hours...
fasteddy47
Adventurer
My Dad had a couple hanging off the front of his Ford Wagon when we would go on long trips!!! I can remember stopping and taking a slug of cool water from the bag.... Ahhhh memories!! Think I might order a couple.
If I remember correctly the ones we had were marked with the Desert Logo and had " A Cool Drink on a Hot Day" stenciled on them...
Thanks for the trip down memory lane:ylsmoke:
If I remember correctly the ones we had were marked with the Desert Logo and had " A Cool Drink on a Hot Day" stenciled on them...
Thanks for the trip down memory lane:ylsmoke:
kai38
Explorer
Not sure that's what the tag that came with it said to do before the first use of the bag.
Martinjmpr
Wiffleball Batter
So who else is thinking of Jackson Browne?
http://www.allmusic.com/album/jackson-browne-mw0000193102
Or am I just showing my age here?
http://www.allmusic.com/album/jackson-browne-mw0000193102
Or am I just showing my age here?
1911
Expedition Leader
So who else is thinking of Jackson Browne?
http://www.allmusic.com/album/jackson-browne-mw0000193102
Or am I just showing my age here?
I have that LP; bought it new in 1972 or 1973. :Wow1:
And yes, canvas water bags really work.
fasteddy47
Adventurer
I still use mine:
Nice to get a cool drink of water on a hot day.
Thats it!!! I'm ordering 2!!!!
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taugust
Adventurer
Here is another thread on the same subject. There is some interesting info on curing new bags. Also, check out the last post from me with a link to some interesting history on how they were used in logging.
http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/31950-Canvas-Water-Bags
http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/31950-Canvas-Water-Bags
Hill Bill E.
Oath Keeper
Minimum order of 2 bags.............anyone want to split an order? ($60 each w/shipping)
I'd like one, but don't really need two right now.
HB
fasteddy47
Adventurer
The curing on the other thread came from my Dad..... He used to fill a wash tub with hot water..... Pour some sugar in the bag and in the tub and let them soak for a few days. Wish I had asked at the time why the
sugar..... But he was a farmer and a mechanic..... so for the two bags I just ordered a few days ago I will try it that way. I will post once I have them and have cured them.