[TR] another view..........

[Rich White]

I want to thank Randall for typing and sending my response! %^)
That is exactly what I was thinking.

I'm in the middle of the great unwashed middle of the country, but I have not
seen anything except the huge round bales for several years.
I think they have also signaled the end of the hay loft in the barns.

Rich White St. Joseph, IL USA
'63 TR3B TCF587L
That ain't a scrap pile, that is my car!




> From: TR3driver at ca.rr.com
> To: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 15:47:11 -0800
> Subject: Re: [TR] another view..........
>
> > Now that I think of it, in the last five or so years I've only bought
> > hay tied with twine and not baling wire. New breed of bailers?
>
> Wow, I'm amazed you could find wire bales even that recently. It's been
> known for many decades that bits of wire wind up in the stomachs of
> livestock fed with hay bound with wire; and I thought the argument over
> whether it harmed the livestock was settled several decades ago. There are
> workarounds, like "cow magnets", but it's simpler and safer to just not
feed
> them the wire in the first place. At any rate, I believe my grandfather had
> already been using twine for many years in 1962 (my earliest memory of a
hay
> bale).
>
> The "new generation" of hay balers appear to all be round balers, and I've
> not seen any of those that use wire instead of twine. Are you still buying
> "square" bales?
>
> -- Randall
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