come on! 101 uses for bailing twine lol

[Ibblebibble]

Heard a rumour that farmers use it for bailing hay and straw. Don't understand it myself.

lol, what a strange idea!!

 

[TheBayMonkey]

Kylee86 (on my phone so can't quote): always have some in my coat pocket! That together with hair ties we made a whole new bridle, thank god he isn't strong or I don't know how we would have made it home!

 

[Spotsrock]

Ties to hold motor bikes upright in van.

 

[SuperCoblet]

Fillet strings
Holding rugs in one piece
Haynet string
Haynet repairs

Decorating the yard Christmas tree with! Just to make it horsey

Leccy fence handles
Field headcollar repairs
Tying buckets and anything moveable when it's windy
Fence repairs
Gate loops/ latches
Leadropes
Polocross net repairs

Probibally alot more too!!

 

[dollyanna]

Emergency repair to harness, or for lengthening traces for training purposes.

 

[meandmrblue]

threaded bailing twine threw piece of guttering to hang up in stable as a rug holder

 

[PoniesRock]

armed with duct tape , baler twine and WD40 you can mend anything!!
best use ever was as a temporary throttle cable on an old fiesta! ran it from under the bonnet through the drivers window and thats how we made it back to college from the beach at Brean!!

Couldn't agree with you more!!

 

[ScarlettLady]

Each lesson i had with a certain dressage trainer resulted in excessive baler twine use: tying stirrups to girth, through d rings on saddle, with little fingers hooked.through to secure hands, and through bit rings for lunging.
spur straps
very useful in fencing!!
tying rugs back together

 

[Fools Motto]

Keeping the chickens in
Keeping the cows in (or out I suppose?)
Keeping my father out!! (seriously tied a farm gate, but dear old Pa couldn't get in) lol
Keeping the horses in or out, depending on the circumstances!!
Skipping rope for the kiddies
Marking out garden boarders/patio paving (straight lines)
Hanging up pheasants (sorry)
Making fake barbed wire HT jump
Gate shutters out hunting
Tail bandage (seen in foaling that some wrap tails in a few rounds of twine as tail bandages obviously need washing and string can be disposed of after?) I guess it is just to keep the hair out of the way - wouldn't do it myself.


We must be nearing 101 ways??

 

[Sunshine]

stringing up the home grown onions.
tie one end round field water bucket handle and leave rest of it hanging into the water - allows mice to get out and not drown, also makes it easy to lift the frozen slab of ice off the top of the water without tipping the whole lot over and getting icy water down your wellies!

 

[mon]

For sheep, prolapse harness, lambing aid,.

 

[dollyanna]

Use two lengths of twine to stretch rubber biscuits to go on bits - stand on one length, pull the other and poke the bit through.

 

[Bridie&theMinis]

Love the stuff!
Used for hanging salt licks off the fence, and used it to reattach the car bumper xmas 2010 when hubby crashed the car in the snow.
And lots of other things I can't think of right now!

 

[KSR]

Tie my hair back with it!!

 

[Dolcé]

I'm another that absolutely loves baler twine. I use it for general emergency repairs, once repaired a full side of the school p&r that was all fallen down, every rail was tied on with baler twine (not our yard but needed to use the school securely). I never go anywhere without at least one piece in my pocket, it tends to end up there when I open a bale. I love the heavier big bale twine too although I would never use this for tying up, it is brilliant for securing gates. We towed the goose pen on a pallet across the yard and through the field using 2 pieced of small bale twine, and used it to drag big bales out to the field before we got the tractor.

 

[jumpthemoon]

I've used it to hold exhaust on, as above, also as hair bobble, belt, gate fastener, haynet string, tack mender....endless uses!

 

[Toast]

Oooh, also a gum twitch, tie one end to the upper ring of the headcollar and thread through the one on the opposite side, then put the baler twine under the top lip and pull and release the end thats threadded through for a surprisingly effective twitch!

 

[ChinaTree]

skipping rope
swing
rope ladder
rope climbing frame
holding existing climbing frame together
tying people up (was usually my brother)
securing garden furniture or camping equipment on a small trailer
transporting 150 year old chairs safely in trailer
temporary repairs to webbing on said chairs
currently holding up the purgola
scarf rack
curtain ties
currently (somehow?) making electric shower work
light cord
emergency girth repairs
temporary replacement for rubber bands on safey stirrups
extend whip lengths
sledge handle
plaited to make a draught blocker thing for the front door
fixed my school bag with it - got a lot of teasing for that!

Most of my outside childhood toys featured hay string!

 

[Stinkbomb]

For holding a birds nest on!!!

This is the nest the swallows made in my field shelter. The string had been put up for me to hang my rugs on and they just built it on top of the rug!! Sadly Inky pulled his rug off and it fell off

 

[flirtygerty]

All of the above plus hanging home made fat feeders from the bird table
along with coconuts

 

[millreef]

I made about 10 hay nets entirely out of bailing twine (we used to call it Charlie Band I think), for the horses in Morocco and gave them as presents to the guys who work there

 

[MissMay]

We had a pony with no tail and we tied lots of blaer tiwine onto his existing stump to allow him to flick flies off
As a temp fly fringe short bits tied to brow band