[TR] another view.......... of hay bales

[Michael Porter]

> When I was a kid in the late 1950s, the hay bales we got in Minnesota were tied with twine.
>
> We had a loft, too.
>
> That part of Saint Paul (yes, we had an old houwe and two barns on seven acres in the city limits) is now suburban-type houses build in the sixties.


Oh, as Phil says, they've been around for some time.  The dairy farmer 
for whom I worked in the early `60s used twine, as did the dude ranch I 
worked on in the `70s.  For small rectangular bales (less than 110#), it 
works fine, and is easier on the hands when handling, the balers 
themselves aren't as much of a maintenance headache, and if the 
livestock ingest pieces of twine, it just goes right through them, 
unlike bits of wire.  Wire may still be used universally for the big 
600# round bales, though.


Cheers.




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Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


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