Bales...a step back...for safety.

[DeeGee]

Totally agree with you. I am also gobsmacked when I see the straw contractors stacking piles in a field for later collection, 8 high and do not take the time cross stack and bind the stack together properly!

And too many times, 3-4 days later, the ends of the field stack are on the floor as the stack was not stable. Bloody stupid and lazy, especially on fields where the public have access on footpaths and the like.

Cross stacking of bales was something I was taught 45 years ago when stacking trailers of conventional bales as a student (I was also taught a proper wagoners knot!!). When I came here in 1976, no one knew how to do either and used to lose the arse of loads on a regular basis When I had them, I also cross stack D1000 bales on trailers, which make for a safer carry without a mile of straps...!

How many people today could make a lorry drivers knot to rope bales?

 

[glasshouse]

How many people today could make a lorry drivers knot to rope bales?

Why would you want to?
Its a handy skill, but obsolete.

 

[simmy_bull]

How many people today could make a lorry drivers knot to rope bales?

Well I could/can. I’m 33. I’ve tried showing a lad that’s a few years older than me and he can’t get the hang of it at all.

Surely it’s not totally obsolete........

 

[nails]

Why would you want to?
Its a handy skill, but obsolete.

. Cant believe people goo out hauling bales and cant tie a dolly, .

 

[glasshouse]

. Cant believe people goo out hauling bales and cant tie a dolly, .

i can, but straps are a mile better.

 

[J 1177]

Well I could/can. I’m 33. I’ve tried showing a lad that’s a few years older than me and he can’t get the hang of it at all.

Surely it’s not totally obsolete........

A couple of years ago I was asked to judge roping a load at our yfc rally, I hadn't done it for years so I re taught myself to do propper rope hitches. Iv been using them ever since.

 

[neilo]

So.....

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....no fence.

Err, shouldn’t that sign be bilingual?

 

[Yale]

How many people today could make a lorry drivers knot to rope bales?

I can and it is a handy skill.

Was stacking the lambing pens away on pallets the other day and using the lorry drivers knot to secure them using big bale string.

 

[steveR]

Why would you want to?
Its a handy skill, but obsolete.

Sounds a bit like me.... and other old farts like me!

 

[Doing it for the kids]

The lorry knot gives bit of frayed, semi torn, worn out rope here a new lease of life, until they snap then repeat process with shorter bits.

In this modern indemnity world we live in I would avoid ropes, no tags on them.