Rolls with plastic string

[DCA farm]

Bought some rolls today baled with blue plastic string should I remove it when I feed rolls or don't bother I normally don't remove the strings but this crap is plastic.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Bought some rolls today baled with blue plastic string should I remove it when I feed rolls or don't bother I normally don't remove the strings but this crap is plastic.

Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Oh yes and burn it as it will take a thousand years to deteriorate.

 

[DCA farm]

Didn't know it had plastic string till I got there to get loaded up only bought 1 trailer load of it luckily

 

[DCA farm]

Oh yes and burn it as it will take a thousand years to deteriorate.

I'm sure it will

 

[Caustic Burno]

Didn't know it had plastic string till I got there to get loaded up only bought 1 trailer load of it luckily

Plastic was common here as lots of hay is stored outside.
Net wrap has rapidly replaced string except for a few running old bailers.

 

[sstterry]

You have the message from these posts. Fields covered in the plastic string are not good! I have a hard enough time with the twine I miss from time to time.

 

[BFE]

I hate the plastic twine. I'm partial color blind, and have trouble spotting them all sometimes. I'm to the point where I'll only buy bales with it as a last resort, net wrap is the way to go.

 

[Texasmark]

For those of limited means, STOs, or retired and having downsized, the old twine baler (1991 JD 375) just has to get-r-done, preferred or not.

Twine gets wrapped around the animal's legs and causes big problems, when plowing or mowing it gets wrapped around the blades/spindles or tines.

Net wrap does a much better job of helping rounds resist outside storage no doubt and I'd upgrade if it was the thing to do.

 

[Brute 23]

The hay guys tried to make a push for wrap around here a couple years back. No one will use it any more. I tell my hay guy every year before he start that I wont pay for net wrap bales. That crap is a mess, especially when it get old and starts rotting. After feeding one day the whole bed of my truck will be plum full of wrap. With strings it's a nice neat 5 gallon bucket.

 

[Silver]

No net wrap allowed here anymore. I tried hard, I wanted it to work, but it doesn't.

 

[hurleyjd]

For those of limited means, STOs, or retired and having downsized, the old twine baler (1991 JD 375) just has to get-r-done, preferred or not.

Twine gets wrapped around the animal's legs and causes big problems, when plowing or mowing it gets wrapped around the blades/spindles or tines.

Net wrap does a much better job of helping rounds resist outside storage no doubt and I'd upgrade if it was the thing to do.

There is no reason not to remove the plastic either twine or net and burn it. I have burn barrels that I put it in and burn after each feeding. Even with careful control of the net and twine I still have some problems. The problems are with cows ingesting the twine and string and geting it balled up between their stomachs and dieing from it. I have found this after dragging a dead cow to the back of the woods and after decaying and the buzzards feasting have found the plastic there will be a ball and another ball attached to each other with a string of the plastic between the balls. Have also found the plastic shopping bags in this mess. Shopping bags blow across the fields from people throwing them out of the car windows after emptying them.

 

[Hippie Rancher]

what the heck was wrong with actual baling wire??!!! I have to buy a box of it every year or so now.

 

[DCA farm]

For those of limited means, STOs, or retired and having downsized, the old twine baler (1991 JD 375) just has to get-r-done, preferred or not.

Twine gets wrapped around the animal's legs and causes big problems, when plowing or mowing it gets wrapped around the blades/spindles or tines.

Net wrap does a much better job of helping rounds resist outside storage no doubt and I'd upgrade if it was the thing to do.

There is no reason not to remove the plastic either twine or net and burn it. I have burn barrels that I put it in and burn after each feeding. Even with careful control of the net and twine I still have some problems. The problems are with cows ingesting the twine and string and geting it balled up between their stomachs and dieing from it. I have found this after dragging a dead cow to the back of the woods and after decaying and the buzzards feasting have found the plastic there will be a ball and another ball attached to each other with a string of the plastic between the balls. Have also found the plastic shopping bags in this mess. Shopping bags blow across the fields from people throwing them out of the car windows after emptying them.

Busted a bale last year it had a flat basket ball and about a bunch of shredded bud light beer cans in it I ended up burning the whole bale before cows got to it I wasn't gonna risk them eating nothing stupid out of it

 

[greybeard]

I burned that plastic net and string for the last 2 years.most of it just melted into a big plastic lump in the bottom of the barrel and emitted a black smoke worse than burning car tires..

 

[snoopdog]

I'll take plastic twine and or net wrap, because we have to transport our hay. You have to get rid of it, by burning ,or whatever means, but after our loss last year with sysal twine, and a good quality twine, so I thought. I won't go back.

 

[Texasmark]

For those of limited means, STOs, or retired and having downsized, the old twine baler (1991 JD 375) just has to get-r-done, preferred or not.

Twine gets wrapped around the animal's legs and causes big problems, when plowing or mowing it gets wrapped around the blades/spindles or tines.

Net wrap does a much better job of helping rounds resist outside storage no doubt and I'd upgrade if it was the thing to do.

There is no reason not to remove the plastic either twine or net and burn it. I have burn barrels that I put it in and burn after each feeding. Even with careful control of the net and twine I still have some problems. The problems are with cows ingesting the twine and string and geting it balled up between their stomachs and dieing from it. I have found this after dragging a dead cow to the back of the woods and after decaying and the buzzards feasting have found the plastic there will be a ball and another ball attached to each other with a string of the plastic between the balls. Have also found the plastic shopping bags in this mess. Shopping bags blow across the fields from people throwing them out of the car windows after emptying them.

Yeah, I forgot about that.....surely is a problem......as are plastic shopping bags that the wind carries for miles, get hung up in barbed wire fences and curious calves!

 

[Dueyb]

The plastic string tied bales do work pretty well for bale grazing. Can set all the bales out before weather gets nasty and then cut and pull off plastic strings even when cold and frozen. Can't do that with netwrap.

 

[BFE]

Throw that net wrap in the bottom of a wash, works great for erosion control.