Small square twine ???

[Husker44A]

Getting ready to bale wheat straw with my new to me JD 224t baler. It has the red plastic twine in the boxes now. But, what works good for you ? Plastic or Sisal ?? What is supposed to be used in these old JD balers ? Thanks .

 

[old]

A lot depends on what it has had in it before you got it. On many of the old JD balers they had to 2 different bill hooks. One for plastic and one for sisal. My self on squares I prefer plastic on round the other

 

[Kell]

Sisal because it is biodegradable on a relatively short time scale.

 

[donjr]

I have a 14T that had sisal in it when I got it, but then I tried the 9000 plastic, and it worked fine, but was hard on the hands, and could break rather easily. So I tried the 7200 plastic, and it has worked fine. And it will really bale a tight bale without breaking. The sisal does rot, and the mice and rats love it in straw. They seem to leave the plastic alone more. So, it comes down to what will serve you best....

 

[mudcreek183]

When I got my NH 570 the dealer put plastic in it as I was going into straw keeps the rats away the builders that buy it from me and others won't take the straw unless it is baled with plastic i use sisal on my hay all the horse people like the sisal.

 

[Bret4207]

I've gone to poly exclusively, the sisal today is junk.

 

[Chester5731]

I use 9000 sisal. I hate the plastic crap. I will only but the New Holland brand sisal. The stuff from TSC does not pull out of the ball very well and I get a lot more broken bales. With the NH 9000 sisal the old 67 baler will make several hundred bales without missing one.

 

[showcrop]

I have been using poly for probably the last ten of my 25 years of haying. The horse people don't care, it goes through the knotters just like the sisal did, it doesn't bother my hands, and I can still bend over to pick up a piece of twine on the ground. The only reason to not use poly is if you or a customer has wool breed sheep.

 

[RodinNS]

I use 9000 poly. Sisal is so inconsistent that it doesn't pull evenly and leads to a lot of broken bales. If your baler has billhooks where the fingers close tight on the hook... you can run poly just fine. Otherwise you change the billhooks or grind the tabs off the fingers so they close tighter.

Rod

 

[Mel in SW Iowa]

I prefer 7000' sisal twine. My Oliver 60T baler will bale fine with 9000', but when I pick it up with a NH 1010 bale wagon, the 9000' will break sometimes.

 

[Brian in MA]

I use 9000 sisal al the time too. I never tried plastic, I just didn't like the look or possibility of plastic in the pasture if a string or two gets dropped during feeding. I agree, the quality has dropped in the last 15 years, and the price has grown. In my experience the New Holland twine is as bad or worse than what I have bought at TSC or Fleet Farm. Just my opinion. Maybe I should try plastic...

 

[Lazy WP]

If you are gonna store it where cottontail rabbits can get to it, use sisal, for mice, and a leaky roof, use plastic. My 271 New Holland, bales pretty much even whether I use plastic or sisal. The sisal is about $20/bale of twine(2 balls) cheaper then the plastic, so that is what I am using this year. Its 7000 Vermeer twine, if that makes any difference.

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 10:32:09 07/16/13) If you are gonna store it where cottontail rabbits can get to it, use sisal, for mice, and a leaky roof, use plastic. My 271 New Holland, bales pretty much even whether I use plastic or sisal. The sisal is about $20/bale of twine(2 balls) cheaper then the plastic, so that is what I am using this year. Its 7000 Vermeer twine, if that makes any difference.[/quot

Wow! Sisal cheaper than plastic? sisal has been substantially more than plastic for probably ten years here. It is now around $20.00 more for sisal. Where is this?

 

[RodinNS]

Yeah... that was another reason I switched. Plastic is about half the cost of junk sisal.

Rod

 

[Lazy WP]

Cherry County Implement in Valentine NE. It was costing me $65/bale for plastic, at either the COOP or Bomgaars, which is our version of Tractor Supply, sorta. The sisal was $39.32. The only other thing I could figure, was the gals at both COOP and Bomgaars charged me twice.

 

[Zachary Hoyt]

I put most of three bales of TSC 9000 sisal through the baler this year with no problems that I could blame on the twine, it was the cheapest deal in our local town.
Zach

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 14:17:27 07/16/13) Cherry County Implement in Valentine NE. It was costing me $65/bale for plastic, at either the COOP or Bomgaars, which is our version of Tractor Supply, sorta. The sisal was $39.32. The only other thing I could figure, was the gals at both COOP and Bomgaars charged me twice.

Yes, they must have charged you twice. Sisal is a little higher here.

 

[Strikefalcon]

Sisal, because it smells good.

 

[Anonymous-0]

We basically switched from sisal to plastic as soon as plastic came out and never went back to sisal.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I used plastic for a while but didn't like the little bits of plastic in the bales. I didn't think it would be could for the horse's. I switch to sisal from our local feed dealer but had a lot of problems with it. I then got TSC sisal and have had no problems with it.
Sisal will rot IF it gets wet. We have some bales in the barn that have been there for at least thirty years and you can still pick them up and throw them around and they won't break.