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<blockquote data-quote="1982vett" data-source="post: 595208" data-attributes="member: 7795"><p>Not to much but it can happen. If the "nail" placement is close to the edge of a bale it is more likely to work loose in blowing winds. I found that covering on nice sunny days when the plastic can "warm up" in the sun you can get a tighter fit to the bale to help keep the wind from getting under the plastic. In May of 2000 we had a pretty good wind/hail storm blew thru. It tore up a bunch of trees, took half the roof off one of Dad's barns, took the whole barn of a neighbor. The only plastic that blew off was on 3 bales, 2 of the bales were blown <strong>off the stack </strong> :???: and rolled across my electric fence then left setting in the pasture about 50 feet from the stack. :shock: The plastic itself is 10Mil and pretty tough. I guess the biggest loss to damage was rat/mice chewing holes in them and one stack of bales must have made a pretty good radiator for some buzzards one winter. They tore holes in 50 feet of covers one winter roosting on top of the bales sunning themselves. After the mice hole incident, instead of storing them folded and on a shelf, I folded them and cinched 3 together with baling twine, then hung them from the rafter in a shed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1982vett, post: 595208, member: 7795"] Not to much but it can happen. If the "nail" placement is close to the edge of a bale it is more likely to work loose in blowing winds. I found that covering on nice sunny days when the plastic can "warm up" in the sun you can get a tighter fit to the bale to help keep the wind from getting under the plastic. In May of 2000 we had a pretty good wind/hail storm blew thru. It tore up a bunch of trees, took half the roof off one of Dad's barns, took the whole barn of a neighbor. The only plastic that blew off was on 3 bales, 2 of the bales were blown [b]off the stack [/b] :???: and rolled across my electric fence then left setting in the pasture about 50 feet from the stack. :shock: The plastic itself is 10Mil and pretty tough. I guess the biggest loss to damage was rat/mice chewing holes in them and one stack of bales must have made a pretty good radiator for some buzzards one winter. They tore holes in 50 feet of covers one winter roosting on top of the bales sunning themselves. After the mice hole incident, instead of storing them folded and on a shelf, I folded them and cinched 3 together with baling twine, then hung them from the rafter in a shed. [/QUOTE]
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