9000 / 7200 Sisal Twine History Question

parisspringstom · Mar 29, 2018

This message is a reply to an archived post by Bill Va on August 01, 2014 at 06:40:12.
The original subject was "9000 7200 Sisal Twine History Question".

On my NH 68 and NH 268 the 7200 seems to work better on these old worn machines.

MSS3020 · Mar 29, 2018

few years ago I ran out of 9000 on a late cut..ran to local tractor store and they were all out of the 9000 but had the 7200. I LOVED IT.. nice twine... but more $$$$ for box then the 9000 so I stick with the 9000..

The 7200 reminds me of what the 9000 use to be like years ago..I run a 273 and the 9000 works fine..

paul · Mar 29, 2018

I've noticed the 9000 is pretty thin at times, not like years gone by when folk put out a product to be proud of.

I figure it is like 2x4s, they aren't, or 3/4 inch plywood, which now mostly is a few 64th thinner than that, and so on.

Everything gets thinner but me!

Paul

RickB · Mar 29, 2018

It?s semantics. High quality twine has a MINIMUM knot strength. For 9000 sisal it?s usually 130 lbs. Most of today?s farm store 9000 sisal has a 130 lb AVERAGE knot strength.

Graham of New Zealand · Mar 29, 2018

My baler experience covered NH balers from 1946 76 to the 280 and in between and operated up to around 2010. Always, always, always the knotters loved thicker rather than thinner twine. I haven't a clue what the strength was. The worst twine we ever used was made in Ireland (from sisal, good) and imported into New Zealand when local manufacture couldn't keep up with the demand from so many auto tie balers, and while the sisal was good and strong the twine varied greatly in thickness, from thick as your little finger to as thin as household string in the length of a bale, so knot had thick and thin in the same knot. It was bad, really bad! Knotters didn't like it and if tied, the thin end pulled out. Bad, really really bad!!

Bill VA · Mar 30, 2018

I had good luck with 9000 sisal until 2 years ago. To make things better, I went to 7200 for last year. The twine quality and breakage was worse. Downtime from broken twine kills us if it gets frequent and dark is coming.

The last second cut I baled (one field), I tried plastic twine, 9600 / 210 strength. Made about 400 bales, very tight and zero twine breakage. As much as I like sisal, we?re going plastic twine going forward unless a hay customer wants to pay a premium for sisal swine tied bales of hay.

Bill

Don-Wi · Apr 2, 2018

Our Massey 12 baler could handle plastic ok on one side, but not the other. Told my hay customers it just helped keep honest people honest, and help me tell mine from others. I did a few things things last few years that helped the baler out, but dad sold everything before I got all the small kinks worked out.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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