This is not how I like to store my twine.

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morgan in ar

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• Jun 16, 2016

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Dang.

 

Southern Ray

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• Jun 16, 2016

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reminds me of my granddaughter's kite string after she held it for a few minutes.
reminds me of my daughter's fishing reel every time we went fishing.

 

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rrlund

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• Jun 16, 2016

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I remember I had plastic twine in the baler one time. It got pulled out somehow,far enough to get under a tire or something,so it started pulling out. By the time I noticed it,I had strung out about a mile of twine along the side of the road.

 

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morgan in ar

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• Jun 16, 2016

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I 've been at it 30 minutes. Broke my pocket knife. Getting ready to light it on fire.....talk me down..

 

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Nick m

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• Jun 16, 2016

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Oh no! Good luck

 

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notjustair

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• Jun 16, 2016

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I've learned - I have a sealed metal cabinet that I store my twine in. Every time I park the balers I cut the twine off and tie it to the baler so the birds or other vermin can't unstring it. I have a bale of 9000 sisal that looks like that - I've kept it to tie up tomato plants and things. About half of it got pitched before it looked like something I could find an end for.

 

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cole in mo.

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• Jun 16, 2016

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A few years back my buddy had an 851 NH big baler, put a new bale of 16000 in each box and headed down the road. Shortly after pulling out the driveway, a branch caught the string on the right side, he had less that a 1/4 of a ball when he pulled into the field.

 

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morgan in ar

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• Jun 16, 2016

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Progress... the center is a solid ball of nylon.

 

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gwstang

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• Jun 16, 2016

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Wow, it looks like a spaghetti factory gone wild. :shock:

 

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morgan in ar

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• Jun 16, 2016

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I wish it was spaghetti...that would be delicious.

 

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PJH

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• Jun 16, 2016

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I crossed the road from the house to the barn one morning, and noticed a trail of plastic twine both directions as far as I could see. I went on about my business, and an hour or so later saw a black car coming slowly up the shoulder. It was a guy who lives about three miles away and does a lot of custom baling, and he was picking up the twine and stuffing it in the passenger floor of his car. It was a mess and looked like it wouldn't fit in a bushel basket. He'd hooked it on something as he drove by with the baler, and it had unstrung a nearly full ball, plus some more of another by the time he got to the field. He said he figured he'd have the whole neighborhood mad at him if he didn't pick it up. I really hadn't given it much thought, but that plastic sure can mess up a seal if it wraps on a shaft. Nice of him to pick it up - saved me the trouble of fooling with it.

 

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ditchwitch

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• Jun 16, 2016

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Ouch that looks like a mess.

 

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CenTex Farmall

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• Jun 16, 2016

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And you didn't even know the baler came with an automatic string re-winder......

Last fall one of the cows got the string pulled out on the baler and I had string tracked all over the place, down to the pasture and to the water trough. They didn't eat any of and there was no hay residue on the baler so I don't know what they were doing.

To top it of the cows then pretended that they didn't know anything about it. They just stared at me when I asked them about it.

 

Southern Ray

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• Jun 16, 2016

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lol
like Sargent Schultz replies "I knows nothiiiiing!"

 

dcarp

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• Jun 16, 2016

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LOL Our daughters nickname was Backlash. That's why I could never catch anything I was always busy with her reel.

 

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BarryfromIA

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• Jun 16, 2016

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The older Vermeer round baler can wrap a lot of twine around the pto shaft.I remember that for some reason.

 

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wheat straw

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• Jun 16, 2016

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my 504H vermeer came "unthreaded" today when it started on a new roll of twine. Mud dobbers and built a nest in the center of the roll and it pulled it in two at the tensioner. Got a five foot bale that i'll have to hand wrap when I pick it upwith the hay fork.

Andy

 

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NEKS

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• Jun 16, 2016

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Bought a loads of net wrap bales. One bale had net wrap all the way through it. You could tell when he come to the turn row because there was about ten wraps with no hay in between.

 

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donjr

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• Jun 16, 2016

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I once laid out close to 10,000' from a field towards home. The last bale didn't cut the twine off cleanly. I went back to the field and pulled the twine out of the field and laid it out like it didn't belong to me......