Sunday, January 28. 2007

Twine

My Darling Wife always claims the place is held together with baling twine. At times I think she might be right.Taken 1/25/2006.

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You being a rancher, and all, wouldn't baling wire be more appropriate?

#1 DMerriman (Homepage) on 2007-01-28 11:11 (Reply)

Almost nobody uses baling wire, including me, anymore. Baling twine has replaced baling wire as a useful commodity around the ranch. I am always tying something up with it.

#1.1 Sarpy Sam (Homepage) on 2007-01-28 18:31 (Reply)

Baling wire used to rust away and was hard to pull loose from the bales. That plastic stuff never breaks down; it just frays and gets tromped in the mud everywhere. But it works just about as well at keeping everything together from pants up to doors closed. And you can cut it with a trusty pocket knife rather than bending it until it broke. The stuff on the Powder River panels looks pretty new like its never seen a bale.

#2 Anon on 2007-01-28 23:48 (Reply)

The twine is just off the hay we are feeding this winter so it has seen a bale. In fact we are still feeding year old hay so it's been on the bale for over a year.

#2.1 Sarpy Sam (Homepage) on 2007-01-29 06:00 (Reply)

I like the yellow twine. Out here in the east we usually get bright pinkish orange stuff....and the whole place here IS held together with it.

#3 Marianne (Homepage) on 2007-01-29 06:56 (Reply)

My apologies, Sam - I'm a city boy, and don't know about stuff like that :-b
Dare I ask if the kids are providing the bubblegum?

#4 DMerriman (Homepage) on 2007-01-29 12:19 (Reply)

No apologies necessary. Just telling you the facts, if I come across a little gruff while doing it, I apologize.

No bubble gum is needed. Twine is all I need.

#4.1 Sarpy Sam (Homepage) on 2007-01-29 20:45 (Reply)

Works better than duct tape.

#5 IMALGMF on 2007-01-29 14:08 (Reply)

I think my life would probably completely fall apart without duct tape and bailing twine.

Lately, all the twine's been blue, not yellow. I don't know why.

#6 Liz (Homepage) on 2007-02-01 06:02 (Reply)

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I managed to finally get the bulls out. I was a few days later than normal due to all the moisture we have been having recently. It isn't quitting wither. The are predicting one to three inches of rain in the next 36 hours and have issued flood warnings for the area due to the all ready saturated ground. Can you say watter logged? You can see my two helpers, my daughters, chasing the bulls in the picture. The hired hand hasn't started yet and I needed help getting the bulls out so they were drafted. The oldest is a hell of a hand but hates every minute of it. The younger one has the better instincts and really enjoys it, but is a lot more tentative and needs a lot more seasoning to really make a hand. Taken 6/5/2007.

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