Around the Farm Uses of Hay Strings

Adapted from http://www.equisearch.com/farm_ranch/management/balingtwine030703/

In a pinch baling twine can be used to:

• make a makeshift halter
• make a makeshift leadrope
• temporarily fix fence boards and gates
• replace broken blanket straps
• make a makeshift martingale
• make a grab strap for beginner lesson takers
• make anti grazing reins
• temporarily tie a gate closed when the latch breaks
• temporarily fix broken halters, bridles and reins
• as a temporary replacement for broken boot laces
• create an emergency fly fringe
• cinch your jeans up

Around the barn and pasture, baling twine can be used to:

• tie the feed buckets to the stall walls
• tie fans up in the stall rafters
• tie a jollyball to the rafters
• tie up stall guards
• use as breakaway ties on hitching posts
• create a pull for the loft stairs
• make pulls for light switches
• make a haynet
• make handles for the ends of electric fencing
• cordon off sections of muddy pasture in spring
• tie down the office pen
• tie a big orange loop on the scissors and hoofpick so they don't get lost in the bedding
• tether things down in the pickup
• tie down tarpaulins

Make a hay net

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