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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:00 am
by Millymollymandy
25. Hay nets for said beasties
26. String shopping bags (or has that been suggested already?
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:16 am
by shiney
Emergency shoe laces.
Tying up your onions to dry
Tying up herbs to dry.
A very useful hairband or something to tie your ponytail up, whislt gardening. V. attractive!
Tying ankles or a three legged race
Ina, my slugs are big enough to be strangled by twine!
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:56 am
by ina
Yep - we've had the shopping bags before, but we can use a lot of them....
We all know, Shiney, that you would win any competition for the largest slug!
31. Weave a doormat for mucky boots
32. Tie up your exhaust when it's threatening to fall off (has happened to me - ALWAYS have a bit of baling twine in the car!)
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:46 pm
by nick
33)plait together to use for ropes
34)mend hole in vege garden gate to stop chooks getting in and devouring newly planted seedlings
(may have to use no.18 if one insists on flying over the fence with a clipped wing)
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:52 pm
by Jessica
Hi this may not sound nice but i use the bale twine for tying up the after birth on the mare after foaling it helps it come out as the weight of it tied up makes it heavier and it just comes out quicker. i know it all sounds awful. but thats what i do for a living for the first 4 to 5 months of the year on stud farms but the foals are wounderful.
jessie
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:13 pm
by Shirley
35 - knot it together and use as melon nets
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:30 pm
by Steve Hanson
36 I use baler twine to tie off the penis and anal tract of pigs when I slaughter them, it stops anything leaking out while I disembowel them or is that too much information?
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:15 pm
by shiney
Steve, it's useful information!
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:31 pm
by woolcraft
When it's really been raining hard lay it over muddy paths and stamp on it - gradually it will form a better path.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:33 pm
by ina
Jessica's foaling aid didn't get counted, so we are now at no.
39. (I hope)
Make into a harness for ewes with prolapse (which the above contribution reminded me of!) Can't remember how it's done, though.
40. Tie "spoon" onto fleece of said ewe with prolapse (now this is getting ever deeper into lambing techniques!)
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:32 am
by Millymollymandy
OK I am totally lost with spoons and lambs' prolapses, all I hope is that the poor piggy's penis is tied up AFTER it is dead!
And quite how you tie up an anus is beyond me!
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:42 am
by ina
Tried to find something on the net about prolapse and spoons, but although they are mentioned several times, I couldn't find a picture... It's a vaginal prolapse I'm talking about, and you can either tie the ewe up in a harness (or truss) to keep the vagina in place until lambing, or you can use the said "spoon", which is tied in place with baling twine and pushed out when the ewe starts lambing, or you can stitch up the vagina, which is probably the safest method - only they have to be "unstitched" when they start lambing.
41. Use to tie pallets together for sheep or goat shelters or compost bins
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:57 pm
by Jessica
Hi Can also be used for trying across cabbage and lettuce with cd's handing out of twine to keep woody and birds out.
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:30 am
by Millymollymandy
ina wrote: or you can stitch up the vagina, which is probably the safest method - only they have to be "unstitched" when they start lambing.
I've heard of that, only it was a woman (a friend) who was about to have a baby. OMG
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:55 pm
by Shirley
Millymollymandy wrote:ina wrote: or you can stitch up the vagina, which is probably the safest method - only they have to be "unstitched" when they start lambing.
I've heard of that, only it was a woman (a friend) who was about to have a baby. OMG
LOL I'm guessing that they didn't use baler twine