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
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!
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.....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) ....
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!! Would you beleive that it is a necessary bit of equipment for private driving spares box!
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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.)
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.
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.
... 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...
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).
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.
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.
Would you beleive that it is a necessary bit of equipment for private driving spares box!
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