What do you do with baling twine?

[JinglebellJessi & MistletoeMagic]

I'm sitting at the yard doing my favourite thing of all, procrastinating.
Currently sat in Kyra's stable on her rug while she's on the other side watching me. While not doing yard jobs I have created this:

Anymore fun uses of baling twine?

 

[bobreader]

great stuff, well done. I make my headcollars as well and I also save up the twine from my big bales and make lead ropes.

 

[Ce'Nedra]

We used to make haynets.

 

[Boxers]

I use it to make new strings for my haynets, and to tie up the holes in my haynets.

 

[Ella19]

Temporary fence fixing!

 

[vieshot]

Temporary fence fixing!

This.

It's great for bodging!

 

[Nosey]

Plait & attach to hoof picks so they can be hung up & hopefully not lost so quickly!

 

[JinglebellJessi & MistletoeMagic]

Haha mine is used for fence fixing, the general holding together of things such as my gate to my tea room, rug fillet strings and many many other things!

 

[millikins]

I tend to hang mine on the window bars because it's one of those things that will "come in useful". I then get sick of it and use it as firelighters at which point I invariably need a new bit on the trailer or to fix a fence.

 

[Qru]

They're used on my yard as "tie-ups." they're free, found all over the place and break easily if a horse spooks/pulls back ect.
Cheaper than buying the bunjee type ones you get at tack shops ect.

 

[kellybee]

I don't think I own a single haylage net that hasn't been repaired with twine. It's been used on many an occasion to fix fencing until my dad can attend the crimescene. On these occasions I've often thought about using it to string my ****land up but its not actually happened yet.

I used to use it on tie rings but nowadays they make it so flippin strong I saw a friend's horse pull back when tied up and bent the metal ring to the point where the welded joint broke apart and the horse was trotting round the yard with her leadrope attached to the (intact) loop of twine and the (broken) tie ring.

 

[Adopter]

Found OH in barn this afternoon with baleing string tied to his specs as pony knocked them off and broke them, so he looked very 'orange' with string round his head holding on specs! (But at least he could see to carry on)

 

[Enfys]

Burn the stuff.

 

[NaeNae87]

I use it for tying up. One of mine knows how to tie solid and is better if he is, he knows if he pulls back enough when tied to twine that he can escape so I have to tie the twine up a special way to make it a bit stronger for him. My other one doesn't tie solid, so he just gets tied to a one strand bit.

I also use it in my float to tie horses when travelling. I fix fences with it. I have used it to make a twitch, I tie hay nets up with it... when camping, I use it to attach a lantern to my shelter, so I have a light higher up that I don't have to worry about knocking over.

 

[Shadow the Reindeer]

I know of people who have made haynets out of them

 

[Rose Folly]

Everything. Don't know where I'd be without Farmer's Friend. As everyone else - mend haynets, replace haynet strings, hang up grooming items, the wandering pair of scissors which are always being lost, use as loops over gates just as an extra safety device, to get the fires going, both in the house and to get my incinerator going, once rode a horse safey home on binder twine when the reins broke, rope for children's sledge, as alternative colour tie-back in garden to remind me of some special plant. Better invention than the zip - oh, and to keep my jodhs up on occasions!

 

[Captain Bridget]

When I worked at a yard we seemed to spend most of our time fixing haynets with it.

It's on all the tie up rings at current yard, but it's too strong! Tied one up to get ready while the other was out in the field next door. Second one suddenly appeared round the corner of the stables (still in the field) and scared the other who shot backwards taking a panel of wood off the side of the stable along with the ring and twine instead of the twine just breaking!

 

[ibot]

hi

i have made a washing line out of a load tied together and its amazing still up 3 years later so much for a temp measure i have also tried to teach cats cradle with it to my kids
ofcourse i have used it to take other bailing twine off bales
it is amazing stuff

 

[asmp]

I have a piece holding up my wing mirror on my car, which got broken when a child ran out in front of my husband and bounced off it! Superglue and tape didn't work so thank goodness for baling twine - shame the twine is yellow and the car is red though.

 

[ribbons]

Today's baler twine is to strong for tie rings. It's nylon and will not break easily. The old fashioned stuff was perfect and started the habit (not sure what it was made of) and people have continued to use it even after farmers changed to the nylon stuff.
The small bale string is bad enough but I have seen people tying to the big bale stuff which is so thick it will never break. I have seen terrible accidents.
I split it to use half a dozen strands at most, and never leave a horse alone when tied.

It's great for tempory repairs
around the yard though.

 

[DragonSlayer]

We don't use it for tying, all our tie rings have quick release ropes on them but it's great for temporary fences fixes etc etc...

 

[tuonodeb]

I've made a handle for my feed bucket out of twine.

 

[Natch]

I'm going to be the boring person who says please don't use that headcollar. If you turn out in it as it looks as if you might have done (?) and she gets it caught up in something in the field it won't break and it'll cause a pretty bad injury. I wouldn't lead her or tie her up using it either, one because it's so thin it wouldn't take much of a pull to place huge pressure on a small area and hurt her, and two because it doesn't look at all easy to undo in an emergency.

Sorry the stuff is useful for other things though you can make haynets out of it (google should come up with instructions) and my favourite ever thing, 'fix stuff'

Remember that the tradition of using bailing twine to tie up horse so that it broke in am emergency days back to the days of bailing twine being made out of natural fibres and it did break easily. The modern day stuff is made out of plastic and is far stronger, so always thin it down to a few strands before using it on tie rings.

Geek lecture over

 

[Natch]

*Remember that the tradition of using bailing twine to tie up horse so that it broke in an emergency dates back to the days of bailing twine being made out of natural fibres and it did break easily. The modern day stuff is made out of plastic and is far stronger, so always thin it down to a few strands before using it on tie rings*

With apologies for the typos in the first version

 

[Hippona]

I once fixed my exhaust pipe back on with baler twine when it fell off at the feed merchants.....

 

[JinglebellJessi & MistletoeMagic]

Oh im not using it! Its was just because i was bored

 

[skint1]

I love a bit of baling twine but have never done anything remotely artistic as making a headc collar with it, that's pretty cool!

 

[Equestria]

When I used to ride in peacock stirrups, I lost the rubber ring when riding (I can't remember how, it must have just slipped off), and since I didn't like riding without the safety ring there, I just made a temporary one out of bailing twine (I set it up so that if I did fall it'd just undo, of course! And it was only temporary, I got new better stirrups now.) it worked well, though not ideal.
Pony somehow broke one of his straps on his rug a while back, and to prevent the loose strap from hanging down under his belly, I got it tied up with some bailing twine so it's out of the way. I'm surprised it's still there actually, it never once came loose. ;o
Pony broke the strap on his fly mask when in the field, but since this one day the flies were extremely bad and kept tossing his head, I decided to use it for a little ride. I made a new strap out of bailing twine, and it stayed on throughout the whole ride.
I'm currently using bailing twine to tie my haynet to in the shelter, and it hasn't broke yet (I haven't got any rings so it's my only option). I have a huge pile of bailing twine, it comes in very handy! Great for knot practise too!

 

[skint1]

I once fixed my exhaust pipe back on with baler twine when it fell off at the feed merchants.....

I had my bumper tied up with baling twine for the best part of a year, it was brilliant!

 

[HardySoul1]

Use it to saw through other baling twine when no knife handy.
Take it hacking to replace the knotted worn out stuff you have to cut through on Welsh bridlepath gates just to get them open and then can't shut the blinking sheep in.
Use if you've no D rings on back of saddle - can cleverly pull it taut around that seam to make it firm to attach saddle bags.
Keep it in car so it looks horsey and untidy.
Tie rails on fencing when no nails around.
Make fake electric fencing to fool ponies into staying put!
Tie front of rugs together... but makes changing them trickier.