Author Topic: Different uses for items / bailer twine  (Read 7096 times)

juliag

  • Joined Nov 2008
  • Wanstrow somerset
Different uses for items / bailer twine
« on: February 26, 2010, 07:45:44 pm »
Hi there, my Husband who is a chartered surveyor went off to work today with bailer twine as shoelaces, Fortunatley not the bright orange stuff but a slighly sandy colour twine. He now says its marvelous stuff and will never buy another pair of shoelaces again. This is all very well but when you answer the door to somebody wearing a fairly smart suit and you happen to look down and spot shoes tied with bailer twine it kind of has a wurzel gummidge feel to it. Does anyone else have any odd uses for things?  :D
juliag

sandy

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Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2010, 07:48:34 pm »
My Ex Father in law wa a famer and so practical no fuss type of man. I went into his bathroom years ago and he had tied a scrubbing brush to an old plank with bailing twine and used it fo a back scub!!!

Hermit

  • Joined Feb 2010
Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2010, 07:52:26 pm »
There is a knitting pattern somewhere on the ether for a hay net made of bailer twine. Saw it in a Horsey mag but I am sure twill be on tinternet.Other than that a million and one uses from tying sheep hurdles to posts or emergency dog leads. Never without bailer twine in my pocket. Hermit

sandy

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Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2010, 08:03:53 pm »
I grew up in a farming community, went out with and married a farmners son and worked for a while in Melton Mowbray and most of the farmers had bailing tine holding thier suit jackets together!

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
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Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2010, 10:56:21 pm »
or their trousers up ;)
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

SuzyJ

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • Bulgaria
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Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2010, 10:09:05 am »
or their trousers up ;)

Lol I did that for quite a while after we moved here as I lost so much weight in the first 6 months nothing fitted!

British Expat trying to live a better life in Bulgaria

smiffy

  • Joined Jun 2008
    • http://www.northmoor-rarebreeds.com/
Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2010, 11:12:29 am »
i love bailer twine....
my farm would fall down withoout it ;D

Hermit

  • Joined Feb 2010
Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2010, 11:22:39 am »
From what wizard says about  his hospital they are keeping him together with bailing twine. Hermit ;D

ballingall

  • Joined Sep 2008
  • Avonbridge, Falkirk
Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2010, 11:34:27 am »
Its handy for cars too  ;D One of our old cars passed about 3 mot's with its bumper tied on with binder twine. You can also plait 3 strands together to make rough collars or halters for goats or sheep. For a gentler but still tough coller, use tomato twine and wool- makes great collars for goats kids.

Beth

smiffy

  • Joined Jun 2008
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Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2010, 11:35:40 am »
From what wizard says about  his hospital they are keeping him together with bailing twine. Hermit ;D

Ha if they did use bailer twine in hospitals then the NHS would be in a spiffing state ;D

sausagesandcash

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • UK
    • IrishHandcraft
Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2010, 11:55:21 am »

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Ha if they did use bailer twine in hospitals then the NHS would be in a spiffing state ;D
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they do, thats the problem!

CameronS

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • North East Fife
Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2010, 08:51:24 pm »
Separate the strands of twine and use it for dental floss.    ;D

OR

what about a clothes Line

Hellybee

  • Joined Feb 2010
    • www.blaengwawrponies.co.uk
Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2010, 03:41:57 am »
Ahhh im another whose always got some in me pocket, wouldnt leave the chicken run er...house without it  ;D emergency belt, tying hurdles, for safety when tying up pones, on rugs to secure attachments...got a  lovely collection now like an orange mane strung on the stable shed gate :) ..just wish the blasted wrap that comes with it was so useable  :-\

Jackie

  • Joined Nov 2009
Re: Different uses for items / bailer twine
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2010, 09:11:06 am »
Im thinking of making a mat with them to get the worst of the farmyard off my boots.  ;D Rag rug style or even knitted.

 

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