Nanny
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baler twineneedless to say we have loads of it here in all colours
every time we open a bale, we carefully remove the twine and tie the two bits together.......we end up with bins of the stuff....
there is only just so much of the stuff you can use in the garden and everywhere else and apart from the fact that it untwists, it is virtually indestructable
so
is it the sort of stuff you can put out with your recyclables?
it seems so wrong to just put it out with the rubbish, there must be something else
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Cathryn
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This year thankfully my hay isn't tied with the nylon stuff. There must be some good use for it though. I always end up with loads and we only get a couple of hundred bales usually.
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Nanny
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last year we had 1200 bales of hay alone
all that nylon.................how many pairs of stockings would that have made do you think
do they still make stockings out of nylon?
anyway it's still a lot
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LynneA
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Find someone to weave it into doormats?
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sean
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Keeping your trousers up is traditional isn't it? And stopping the ferrets from escaping at the ankle end of your trouser leg.
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countryman
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Ive got my own baler, so you can imagine the twine that comes with that. My dad makes collars for goats and hay nets etc out of it,
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Sarah D
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I was going to suggest what Lynne did - the doormats, woven on a peg loom. They're great - colourfdful, hardwearing and easy to do. You coudl sell them at your fundraisers too. Haynets and leads too, my friend makes them; or knitting together with *BIG* needles for bags for onions, turnips etc for storage.
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woodsprite
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When we had the same problem I used to crochet it into 'string' shopping bags.
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BahamaMama
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See the knitted dishcloth thread - pot scourers?
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Mary-Jane
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There's someone local to here who each year creates all sorts of pictures and household items out of baler twine for the County Agricultural Show arts & crafts section - whatever she makes it's always brilliant and terribly clever.
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Spruengli
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Have heard of using the stuff for makeshift fly fringes...
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Cho-ku-ri
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I use it as fire lighters 
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Slim
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you're not worried about what you might release by burning nylon?
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tahir
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| cpg03 wrote: | | you're not worried about what you might release by burning nylon? |
I would be
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sean
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It's probably made in China. CKR's just doing his bit to re-import some of our pollution. 
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Rob R
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I thought it was polypropylene 
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VSS
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It is - unless you have a vintage baler in which cae it is probably sisal.
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Slim
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Is it any better to burn polypropylene?
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Cho-ku-ri
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I'm as well to burn it at source and get a second use out of it rather than my stupid council sending it to China to smoulder on open fires stoked by children.
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Nanny
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| Mary-Jane wrote: | | There's someone local to here who each year creates all sorts of pictures and household items out of baler twine for the County Agricultural Show arts & crafts section - whatever she makes it's always brilliant and terribly clever. |
that sounds good
do you think she might want a ton or two of the stuff?
all good ideas but....it still wouldn't touch the amount we have
we have 333 bales of hay and straw arriving next week
if you assume a yard and a half of baler twine times 2 for each bale that's somewhere in the region of 900 yards of twine.............is that nearly a mile? about half a mile maybe of baler twine
can't the council recycle it if i put it out with the rest of the recyclables? i can't see me knitting that many shopping bags or doormats - ever
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crofter
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Could you use larger bales instead?
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Calli
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Big bales tend to have netting around them - which makes excellent chicken deterrants......
I use baler twine it for hay nets.
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Nanny
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| crofter wrote: | | Could you use larger bales instead? |
can't deal with the bigger bales here, no equipment suitable for shifting them
i suppose what i should do is ring the council and ask them if it should go into the recycling bin or not and if the answer is NOT then...i don't know......burn it perhaps
or maybe take it to the landfill site and see........last time rolf did that it was with some old roofing felt and they charged us nearly £50 for disposal.............it's no wonder a lot of farms are such a mess.....it costs a fortune to be tidy and environmentally friendly
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alison
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We have to save it, and have it collected once a year, along with other farm plastics, bale wrap, and netting.
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Cho-ku-ri
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Do you know where it goes then, recycled, land fill, or sent to China to be burnt?
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alison
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I have no idea, as this is for our compliance, and we share the service with another farm. They trade on green services though, so I will try and find out.
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Nanny
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| alison wrote: | | I have no idea, as this is for our compliance, and we share the service with another farm. They trade on green services though, so I will try and find out. |
i would be interested to know as well
i didn't know there was a service for farm stuff
round here i am told they just dig a hole and bury the bad bits
i was horrified when i heard that but from what i see around here, it has certainly been done.....
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