Thread: Canvas water bags

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

I am still missing something here. I looked at the link to Wiki on wagon wheel s and I still can't see the relevance to water bags

From the original post.

Originally Posted by S3ute

Problem is that they are all turning up at about 15" X 12" in flat size and this is aa lot smaller than I remember them being when I was a kid and my Dad had them on his truck. Then again my memory of the size of Wagon Wheels and two bob chocolates from when I was little and what they are today are also met with disappointment on older age.......


Cheers,

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

I am still missing something here. I looked at the link to Wiki on wagon wheel s and I still can't see the relevance to water bags

Everyone remembers Wagon Wheels as being much bigger when they were younger.
The OP posted :-
"Problem is that they are all turning up at about 15" X 12" in flat size and this is a lot smaller than I remember them being when I was a kid and my Dad had them on his truck. Then again my memory of the size of Wagon Wheels and two bob chocolates from when I was little and what they are today are also met with disappointment on older age......."

Hope that makes sense.


Colin

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

I am still missing something here. I looked at the link to Wiki on wagon wheel s and I still can't see the relevance to water bags

Originally Posted by S3ute

Hello from Brisbane.

I was wondering if anyone could set me straight on the general dimensions of the old flax/canvas waterbags that were common a decade or so back.

My reason for asking is that I was after one for my Series truck and started looking seriously about a year ago. Bought a couple from the USA (Coleman, Minnaqua) on eBay and just recently picked up a Springbok by special order in Zimbabwe.

Problem is that they are all turning up at about 15" X 12" in flat size and this is aa lot smaller than I remember them being when I was a kid and my Dad had them on his truck. Then again my memory of the size of Wagon Wheels and two bob chocolates from when I was little and what they are today are also met with disappointment on older age.......

So, is 15" X 12" close to the mark and I should stop looking or were there bigger sizes in general use. I would have thought that with the evaporation that size would empty pretty quickly.


Cheers,

Your memory re the Wagon Wheels is more accurate than for canvas bags.

I imagine the OP's comment about Wagon Wheels was prompted by that well known phenomenon of our recollection of the size of things when we were much smaller often being quite inaccurate. Because we were small, everything seemed bigger.

For example when I went back to Sawtell after an absence of over 45 years, I discovered that the distance from our house down 17th Avenue to the train station where we caught the train to go to Coff's High School, was only about half what I remembered. That hill I used to struggle up on my 20" fixed wheel push bike on the way home from shopping in the main street, was nowhere near as big or as steep as I remembered.

However, in this case, Wagon Wheels really were bigger, so it is not a good example of the phenomenon.

At my age the memory is good for about ten posts. When I asked about the relevance of wagon wheels it was post 18. I reckon if I did this all day it probably would do no damage.

Probably to many years of

Yeah but I remember when I was a kid Wagon Wheels were about 4" across - but I did buy some a few weeks back and they were only 2" across so maybe things were bigger in the ole days.

Then again I did buy a Wagon Wheel at a coffee shop/bakery at Holbrook on the Hume Highway bout 2 months back and it was about 6" in diameter and about 3/4" thick. It was the Whopper of Wagon Wheels.

Garry

Hello again from Brisbane.

I would like to thank all the respondents individually but take this as a collective thanks.

I hadn't expected to get such a positive response to my reflection on the shrinking stature of the humble Wagon Wheel - imagined or real, as the case seems to be.

I guess 15" X 12" seems to be the general size, although as I noted it looks smaller than I remember from all those years ago when I thought my Dad was a special guy when he poured the canvass tasting super chilled water into cupped hands and gave me the first drink.

We used to drive in a FJ ute from Griffith to Singleton in the 1950's to visit my Mum's family and I would ride in the front between my parents and the other three older kids in the back on a mattress. Thermos at West Wyalong and maybe a sandwich then back on the track. Accommodation was a tent at the Bathurst showgrounds before tackling the Blue Mountains and radiator busting Putty Rd.

Try that today.................

Cheers,

Spotted in Tibooburra a couple of weeks ago.




Deano