Uses for baler band/twine

[Jdeere6910]

Was thinking the other day of how universal baler band is in many applications. Also might make an interesting topic  so what can you think it's used for?

I got:

Holding bales together (obvious)

Tying gates together

Bracing up game when shooting

Seen it used as an emergency belt

[DMarshallModels]

for houlding up your trousers...

[jordantaylor]

tying hydraulic pipes together,

tying things to the quad racks

using it on feed barriers to make the gaps smaller so calves calnt get through the gaps

[Tommy Gough]

Dog lead

Cattle diveter

Calving a cow

[JoshParkinson]

Holding the tailboard shut on the beet trailers when on short journeys 

on the loadall because the spring loading has gone in the throttle, we use a spring tied to a bit of baler twine tied round the steering column

tying sheets down on trailers

holding doors/gates shut

next time i'm at work i'll have a good look round 

[Manor Farm]

tying up silage sheets

[Claaspower]

tying people up

;D

Don't see it much nowadays but years ago when farmers drove really old battered cars,they used to tie down the boot lid or the bonnet if the catch was broken 

[BC]

In the past I have seen it used for tying sacks / bags of potatoes and a temporary replacement for a broken boot lace.

[BC]

Going back in time farm workers would have used it for their "Nicky Tams"

http://www.rampantscotland.com/poetry/blpoems_tams.htm

For anyone not  fully conversant with old Scottish poetry there are meanings at the end for some of the more unusual words ;)

[allis8550]

Making haynets for lambing pens, and sheep halters.

[Gav836]

Wrapping around the neck of annoying students............

[Tractorman810]

deffinatly for holding your trousers up, the old guy that used to work for us, called wally, always used it, even arrived at his daughter wedding in his sunday best, held up with twine :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[BC]

I recall as a child on grandparents farm pleating three strands of the small bale twine together to make a stronger kind of short rope.

[WillTEF20]

Braces

Ribbon on Christmas presents

Packiging parcels

[MF-ROB]

Wrapping around the neck of annoying students............

What is it with students and you ha ha! you never get on ha ha! is it just the students you get are brain dead or something like that if you ever need a young chap at your work let me know 

[Gav836]

We seem to always get the ones that need constant baby sitting, that lack common sense and forget everything that you tell them within the first 10 minutes after doing so........hence how we had over a ton of malting barley trailed down the road after he forgot to check the tailboard twist locks after going down the track despite being told to

I have a feeling of dread over potato harvest at the moment as he is unable to drive straight beside a combine so god knows what he will do beside my spud harvester, he's under the threat of having the biggest spanner in my toolbox wrapped around his skull if he damages it ;D

[Lady Ferguson]

An essential item for those with horses:

1. Using as a quick release on tie-rings so that it breaks if the horse panics.

2. As above, but on your trailer/lorry.

3. Repairing haynets.

4. Repairing headcollars and any other tack in an emergency.

5. Tying your number on when competing and you've lost the piece of string the show organisers gave you

[tractorbob]

for us it was wrapping round the pump for the slurry tower(grrrrr) ..not a good use but allways there..oh i use string to hang up my shearing machine

[SMurF]

For repairing a leaky copper pipe fitting

Older sizal twine for making 1/32 straw (another trade secret released)

For wrapping round plastic bolt threads to keep them tight

for sucking through conduit to allow you to pull the wires through

Just a few that i have used      But it has got to be one of the most versatile things on a farm

[MJB1]

I recall as a child on grandparents farm pleating three strands of the small bale twine together to make a stronger kind of short rope.

i still plat twine , i would plat a lot more but i cant get mads neice's to cut the twine on the knots 

even on farms during a long delivery i'll plat twine , it's really quite relaxing , small bales are good , big bale twine is a little more challenging 

[Leakeyvale]

Never mind a temprary belt to hold up trousers. My cousin Henry always had a length holding his jacket closed (no buttons).  I swear it was the same piece every time I went down to Cornwall.

Apart from that I remember using it to cinch a saddle as the horse was seriously overweight (I got the job of riding him fit). The longest girth in the tack room was still 4 inches short of the buckles so we threaded baler twine through the holes and the buckles and tightened it like an old fashioned corset.  Worked a treat.

[MF-ROB]

We seem to always get the ones that need constant baby sitting, that lack common sense and forget everything that you tell them within the first 10 minutes after doing so........hence how we had over a ton of malting barley trailed down the road after he forgot to check the tailboard twist locks after going down the track despite being told to

I have a feeling of dread over potato harvest at the moment as he is unable to drive straight beside a combine so god knows what he will do beside my spud harvester, he's under the threat of having the biggest spanner in my toolbox wrapped around his skull if he damages it ;D

:laugh: :laugh: aaaaaaaaah i see Gav well lets just hope he dosnt drive off when your filling the tatty boxes on the trailer ha ha! 

oh and the twine we use it for lots of things theres a saying over here if the world stop making baler twine and wooden palets the country would be over run with livestock  ha ha!

[asat]

lifting up are topper at work because some one didnt put it on blocks so it wouldnt go on the linkage

[Farmermilkin82.050]

Its called hairy ned around here nowadays 

We use it for holding the balls in the tractors arms in place when nothing is on the tractor,

closing gates 

Well theres two but theres a lot of uses 

[Dan]

1. stopping the link arms swinging & hitting the rear wheels

2. rudimentary fences

3. tieing down sheets

4. keeping the tractor wing mirror from moving

5. holding doors open