That's the one I know and use regularly as a tie down.The truckers hitch, basically the knot you fasten a load down with. Allows you to pull it tight and release easily
I want them to use one of the strings on the bale.
If I give them a ratchet strap it will be me that has to go down there and lift the bales to get the straps underneath.
They are big bales, 200kg+.
Thats exactly what I do when I open bales and dont use it all.This is what I am meaning, taking the pic of the sheet bend posted above, if you put the loop through rather than the end of the rope you will be able to slacken by pulling the tail.
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That's the one I know and use regularly as a tie down.
I’m with you on that one. Only issue is they become a bit of a throw away item after a while and it gets pricey replacing them.
You pull the end at the bottom of the pic which releases it but leaves the rope through the overhand loop like a pulley so everything is still tied, let the end through the loop to slacken or pull to tighten, retie the not with a loop.
Very difficult to explain in words, very simple in use/skill to tie.
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Untied leaves you with this which still holds everything together if you've got hold of the slack end.
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Commonly known as a dolly
i used to upset people due to me being left handed if i loaded a trailer roped and sheeted it who ever unloaded it made it hard to wrap the ropes up
Not being allowed into the old codgers thread, I'm not familiar with £1 a bale....last one I bought was £20 and that was farmers mates rates. The Last time the missus went for coal, the guy wouldn't let her go until she showed him she could do the truckers hitch, she said he showed her 10 times. I bet she's already forgotten it though.Maybe but with the price of hay/straw these days it’s worth keeping the stack tidy and dry, £1 a bale hay is history
Can’t see many of the horsey girlies mastering these knots
Bob
Not being allowed into the old codgers thread, I'm not familiar with £1 a bale....last one I bought was £20 and that was farmers mates rates. The Last time the missus went for coal, the guy wouldn't let her go until she showed him she could do the truckers hitch, she said he showed her 10 times. I bet she's already forgotten it though.
Not being allowed into the old codgers thread, I'm not familiar with £1 a bale....last one I bought was £20 and that was farmers mates rates. The Last time the missus went for coal, the guy wouldn't let her go until she showed him she could do the truckers hitch, she said he showed her 10 times. I bet she's already forgotten it though.
as a teenager i used to work on a mates farm in the summer damned hard work chucking bales up on the trailer in them daysTen bob a bale off the field in the summer or £1 delivered in during the winter, these were the smaller bales and not the huge square/round ones the produce today.
Moving hay is a stinking sweaty job
Bob
Back in the good old days, if we couldn't find any chains or straps we roped everything on.
We used to carry full loads of empty pallets at 15' 6" high held on with ropes and we didn't lose them. And if you tie 3 dollies in the same rope, it's tight enough to play like a violin .
It still is, espescially as I get olderas a teenager i used to work on a mates farm in the summer damned hard work chucking bales up on the trailer in them days
three dollys in a row will snap any rope if you pull hard enough
I do this knot all the time..for the same thing. Are you looking for a how to video or just the name of the knot?So on a big hay bale,
When you cut the strings,
You can tie a loop in one end of the cut string and then on the other end there is a knot you can tie that let's you pull the string up tight to keep the remaining bake together but is easy to release again to get more hay out.
I have seen videos/instructions for it loads of time and showed it to others but now I can't remember the name of it...
I do this knot all the time..for the same thing. Are you looking for a how to video or just the name of the knot?