Uses for bailer twine

[Palomino]

Can be made into:

-leadropes

-haynets

-fillet strings

Good for making into necessary items cheaply and relitivly quickly.

There must be many more uses though.

[maverick927]

I use it as a sweat scraper. it gets into all the nocks and crannies and it free. i also use it for temporary repairs for my fence.

[Hel]

Homemade Flyfringes

[floppy]

i use bailer twine to 'cut' open the bailer twine on the hay balls when there is no nknife around.

i also made a leadrope/reins with it (just put 2 clips - one on each end instead of just th eone) and then i attach to it to my share horses halter and ride her to the field.
Dont need to do it with my own horse because i just open the stable door and the field is there :D

[Cochise]

mine is a clothes line for when I have wet horse boots to dry after riding. I hang it from rafter to rafter in my hay storage shed and stick my boots from their straps to it!
Also I use it to open other hay bales, and to make my temporary fence a bit longer then its needed!

[Pintaloosa]

I've seen some people weave them into pretty cool headstalls.

[floppy]

what's a headstall?

[LindaAd]

.....gate latches, safety loops for tying horses up, mending tack in an emergency, making a headcollar bigger ditto, holding gates open, dog leads, carrying jump cups (tie them into bundles) ....

[suze]

Ohh
Can someone tell me how to make hay nets please.
Could make a usefull project for me when Im stuck at home.

[Wally]

Everyone knows civilisation as we know it would grind to a halt without bungee cords and bail string!! You could put man on the moon if you had enough bail string and bungees....and builders backstraps!!:D :D ;) Would you beleive that it is a necessary bit of equipment for private driving spares box!

[marge]

I tie them to the ends my fly strips and toss the end of string over the rafters in my barn. I catch the end and pull the fly strip up to the ceiling. Then I cut it loose when it's full. I use it to tie clips onto eyelets on walls to attach to stall doors to hold them open. I tie stirrups up with them to saddle when I lunge my horse. (Sort of a "Duck Tape" of the horse world.)

[Dressage_Luvr]

I had to do up my horses blanket with it before! they think that the belly strap thing shrunk, so it didnt come close to the other side, so we did a quixck release knot on it.

[Macha's Ember]

My instructor loves to use bailing twine to tie our sturrips. You tie them to the girth and if you have a shaky leg, it forces you to keep it down and around your horse. If you don't the horse won't go anywhere. If you ever thought you had a leg, just try this! The tighter you tie them the harder it is!!

Also, bailing twine is used to tie up our crossties because it breaks easily if the horse spooks.

[LindaAd]

... hanging keys round your neck so they don't get lost, ditto hoofpicks, tying up long hair when the scrunchie is lost,mending fences ... by the way, the stuff is BALER twine, 'cos it's used for baling hay into bales; the one thing it wouldn't be good for is bailing...:):) :)

[Sue&Tasha Green]

My horse like to pull her fillet strings off so I attach string to the D rings on her turnout rugs.
Tasha

[welsh_mountain]

When your riding adn your horses/pony wants to eat all the time you can tie make grass reins to STOP them!:)

[maverick927]

It was my pony's birthday and I plaited alot of bailer twine (using different colours) and joined it to his tail which made really cool extensions. His tail looked gorgeous and he wore them all day.
I would have used them on his mane if he had one (its hogged).

[doris]

To make haynets from baler twine. Get 24 lengths of twine & tie all of them together in a large knot. Hang this from something so that you can work on it easily. Starting from the knot, tie every two strings together. Go round again about 2/3 inches lower, & tie one string from a pair, to one string from the next pair together, thus forming a diamond shape. Go all the way round, and keep going, forming diamonds until you have a complete net. If this isn't easy to follow, email me & I'll try to find a picture to email you back. You can make the nets with as large, or small holes as you like.

[LindaAd]

Sounds good, Doris; I'd like to have a go - does it matter what sort of knots you do? And how do you finish it off at the end?

[doris]

It does'nt matter what sort of knots you do. To finish off, just thread a plaited lenth of twin through the last diamonds that you tied, you can then use this to gather up once the net is filled. Easy, and cheap haynets.

[galadriel]

I made a pair of side reins in an "emergency"--then ordered a real pair ;) Could probably make a decent chambon for temporary use (again would buy one if I really needed it).

Grabbed a handful of haywire a couple of days ago to go run out & rinse/scrub a nasty water bucket. Worked really well! (We keep a water tub in the arena for random turnouts--waiting for vet, overnight it was too rainy so the overnight horses go out in arena during day, etc. Hadn't used the arena for turnout in a couple of weeks and the bucket got REALLY ick!)

A couple of gates have chains that aren't fixed to anything, so I tied them in place with haywire to keep them from falling down every time the gate was opened. Got to make sure the chain is properly fastened around itself though, as a horse could break the haywire.

The arena doesn't stand up well by itself (it's metal panels) so we put in T-posts at regular intervals and tied them on with haywire.

I also use haywire for emergency fence repair :)

I have a REALLY LONG HOSE that goes out to my pastures. I tied it along the fence line at regular intervals so it doesn't get dragged or buried or... I use a hose splitter with a section of hose at each water trough, and have those securely fastened to the fence also.

When I made some xc jumps in the pasture, I mostly just tied logs together & to trees with haywire. Works great ;) (Especially if you have trees about 8-10 feet apart set up juuuust right for "standards.")

[Jay.o]

late i know !!
but i plaited it together and hung a likit on the end of it. its strong and did the job great !!!!!!!

[Sparkle]

For connecting the crossties to the walls, grass reins, tying up a broken gate, and hanging things like flytraps, rosettes, etc. (There are morew but I cant think of them right now)

[sazzle10]

oooh the haynet thing sounds good! but me bein so dumb didnt quite understand!! :rolleyes: do u have a pic?!?! thanks! xxxxxxxxxx

[$@R@H]

hmm, We have sooooo much of old bailing twine at my house(dads a diary farmer who makes his own hay). I might try that haynet thing, even though I don't have a horse!!

[Appaloosa]

Hey are those Christina Aguliera lyrics with lil' kim?

Baler twine is also useful for re stringing broken haynet cords.

XAX

[Cochise]

The float we hired didnt have a clip for the chain that does up beind them! so we got some good old bailing twine and tied it up!

[$@R@H]

lol, Appaloosa


Yeah, It's Christina lyrics:o :o ,I'm not what u would call a "fan" but I just like this song, she's not really my thing. SOAD forever!!

[taffy]

hehe soad is what me and my brother call angry music. If we are annoyed we put toxicity on full blast :D not sure the neighbours like it so much tho !!!

any way back to the subject. What are cross ties ??

If you were really desperate you could make a lose rope headcollar from them.

I think the grass reins idea is good. Im gonna shove some bailer twine into my coat next time im out hacking :D

[Melody]

it can just about be used for anything. where i go riding u keep some in ** pocket at least 2 bits. when we go out on the roads we take it so we can tie our horses up so we can all have a break. fences gates lead ropes u name it we use it. i like the haynet one i dont quite get it tho. i use it as side reins cos i dont have any and cant afford them and dont use them often enough to buy them to tie jackets onto the frount of saddles some one made a running martingale out of it a couple of times.

[tbone]

cross ties are 2 long rope type things that attach to your horses halter I like them best with velcrou that way if a fire etc your horse can break them tbones does on purpose tho lol:D

[ladyrose]

I made a baler twine haynet once - it took me an hour and everyone laughed at me :o but it was quite fun although it ended up really long and had HUGE holes :rolleyes: and I only ever used it a few times because it was really hard to undo the quick-release knots on it :rolleyes:

[Tor&Warrior]

Baler twine is the only thing keeping the fencing up around Vinnys field since he decided he was going to scartch his arse on it!!!

[Nicole5310]

I use baler twine to attach electric fence tape to the fence posts at the end when its not in a circuit. It doesnt carry current so it helps the battery last longer and the zap is stronger at the far end of the fence.

[Holly B]

It can also be used to manouvre bit guards onto a bit. Oh, and just attach a thin piece of baler twine to the end of a schooling whip. Voila, a temporary lunge whip!

[artemis]

One of our local farmers uses it in bundles to start his sitting room fire.

I recently made a temporary repair to the feed shed guttering after a bale of hay bounced off it. (I made a sling & attached it to the roof) It works too!:D

[T-bred]

My brother has used it as a belt before!!!:rolleyes: :D

Anna

[Fluff3334]

Temporary bucket handles when they break.

Shoe laces in a dire emergency?!

[Fluff3334]

Just thought of another...... attached to two high up points and threaded through some plastic tubing as a rug hang-up

[TBEventer2002]

Originally posted by floppy
i use bailer twine to 'cut' open the bailer twine on the hay balls when there is no nknife around.


Someone PLEASE explain this to me! How on earth do you do that??? :)

[Holly B]

TBEventer2002, you just have to get a shortish piece of baler twine and thread it under the twine that's wrapped around the bale. Hold it at each end and pull backwards and forwards quickly under the same spot. The friction causes the baler twine on the bale to snap. Great for when there's no knife handy! (OK, that probably wasn't a very easy to understand explanation!):(

[Avid_Rider]

Macha's Ember
Could you explain how you tie the stirrups to the girth? I think I got it but Im not sure, I know osmeone this would be perfect for! But for jumper, it seems it'd be a little forward. But to steady the leg I guess it wouldnt matter much.

Thanks

[Kerry Claire]

OK, first off, can you buy bailer twine from garden centres or anywhere else for that matter or do you just have to get it from bales of hay/straw etc?

At my yard it's used as a daisy something or other (to stop them putting their heads down), the thing that stops the saddle sliding forwards (looped under tail and attatched to back of saddle), lead ropes, tying the horses up to fences etc, temporary repair jobs. Sorry about spelling and lack of names for things - I'm having a really bad mental blank!

[Jamey]

Kerry Claire - you can get green gardener's twine from garden centres etc but in my experience it's not quite as strong as real baler twine.

Daisy rein , crupper .

Macha's Ember and Avid rider - tying your stirrups to the saddle with baler twine can be extremely dangerous as it doesn't always snap if you fall off. If your foot goes through the stirrup but there is not enough strain exherted on the twine as you fall you could easily end up getting dragged. Try two loops of velcro instead. ;)

[barebackqueen76]

TBEventer:
you take your lose bailing twine and then you put it under the other twine that is on your hay bale. then you pull back and for on the first rope and sooner or later the rope on the hay bale will break.

how long do the baling twine fence last? we r lookin for a cheap way to fence part of our yard. could we do it? would it work?

~Rachel

[Chip]

hehe, I was just wondering a day or two ago just how many things could be listed to do with baler (binder) twine. It's 3.30am and I have not slept yet so can't think of more to add right now although my husband uses it as trace carriers on his harness and I use it to tie back the feed shed door.