What do ya do with it

Dale in Nw wa · Jan 1, 2014

I posted this question over on the Case side but thought I might get more answers here. OK I know that there are Thousands of feet of bailer twine used every year, the old sisial twine would rot away but this plastic stuff will out last the world. So what do ya do with it recycle or what? I had a friend that used some to redo a old lawn chair looked good. Dale

farmerwithmutt · Jan 1, 2014

maybe recycle center

Anonymous-0 · Jan 1, 2014

We just do not use plastic or netwrap on our farms.

big jt · Jan 1, 2014

Have seen a couple articles in Farm Show magazine about ag plastics of various types.

One contributor had started up a business of recycling silage bags to the industrial plastics market.

Another reused the plastic twine for his round baler. Took the twine off his round bales and had a way to coil it as he fed the hay. I understand that net wrap does preserve the hay better, BUT one of the big reason's we started roundbales in 75 was LABOR. Mostly putting the hay up but if we were still in cattle I am pretty sure we would still be using sisal twine. Heck we used the loader to lift the feeder. Only reason I got off the tractor when feeding hay was to open or close a gate.

As to your question I would collect it in a barrel and dispose of "properly".

jt

Russ from MN · Jan 1, 2014

If it's not UV protected it will crumble in time.

2x4 · Jan 1, 2014

woodstove

Bob Huntress · Jan 1, 2014

Tie it into figure 8's, throw them in the ocean (or lakes, rivers etc), and see if you can strangle sea life. You can also bury it and check every 28,000,000 years to see it they broke down. I prefer to chock aquatic wildlife, but you can be creative.

hrRoss · Jan 1, 2014

bought some biodegradable round baler twine about 6 yearsago, thought it would degrade after 1 year. moved a bale of straw last week, still had the twine on it, was setting outside all this time. looked like some of the twine was gone tho

PJH · Jan 2, 2014

Shop furnace

I hate that stuff

Bruce from Can. · Jan 2, 2014

I some times need a lenght of rope for a halter or such, and I braid the plastic large bale string,works good.

M Nut · Jan 2, 2014

Outdoor wood boiler fuel.

lee little · Jan 2, 2014

I hate plastic twine! I have bought some hay at times with it on it.It takes me longer to cut that stuff off than it does to do the rest of the feeding. On farms I have been on that fed hay without cutting it off you would think that the devils wife had designed it to destroy bearings.

Dachshund · Jan 2, 2014

keep some for emergencies, the rest goes into the burn barrel. I always use plastic - I hate the way sisal degrades and brakes. When I pick up a bale, I want it to stay together....

bison · Jan 2, 2014

(quoted from post at 07:37:06 01/02/14) keep some for emergencies, the rest goes into the burn barrel. I always use plastic - [b:eeae4516df]I hate the way sisal degrades and brakes[/b:eeae4516df]. [b:eeae4516df]When I pick up a bale, I want it to stay together.[/b:eeae4516df]...

hat he says.
I bought 200 sisal wrapped bales baled up in July and i picked them up in the field with a self loader in Oct. 80% of them came apart when they rolled the 1/4 turn on the trailer.
And there are at least 30 wraps on a bale. :shock:
I bale my own with plastic twine and need only 13 wraps to make the bales stay together for 2 years or longer.
Netwrap is the worst of all for taking it off the bale when feeding out,..especially in winter.
I can easely store the plasic twine bundles from 30 bales in the tractor cab versus 1 netwrap.
Plastic is the way to go on round bales.

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