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

[John Macartney]

The way things are developing on this thread - baler twine versus wire -
there's 
a legitimate excuse to include the Ferguson tractor :)

Jonmac
________________________________
From: Michael Porter <mdporter at dfn.com>
To:
pethier at comcast.net
Cc: triumphs at autox.team.net
Sent: Mon, 8 November, 2010
16:09:41
Subject: Re: [TR] another view.......... of hay bales

> 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.




-- 

Michael Porter
Roswell,
NM


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