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Used balin' twine can also double as a piggin' string. In the past five years, i've used 'em for:
Lead ropes
halters
fix fence
tie up gates with busted latches
MAKE fence (gonna have to get pics of this in the day time- it's here at the house!)
dog leads
tied the fancy-schmancy heated electronic mirror back on my Expedition when I forgot about the mirror's position whilst throwing a bale of hay off the top... in my defense, i'd only owned it a few months!
Ponytail holder
belt
That MAY be it for now.... let me get back to you on that....
Nope, barbed is baaad. Ever seen a horse that had gotten tangled up in it? We're a mixture of barbless, woven no-climb and wood. Well, and the tiny section of balin' twine, that is.
Oh wait. I *do* have a wreath made from barbed hanging up. Others may say it's just a coil of barbed wire but NAY (or neigh) say I. It's somewhat semi-circular so it's a wreath! ;-)
lol, Greg! For the horse, but that gives me a HECKUVA business idea.......
You Know You're in New Mexico When...
You're driving on the interstate and a tumbleweed the size of your vehicle has just passed in front of you while you were doing the speed limit of 75 m.p.h. and you're now freaked out and on high alert!
Warning: do not brake suddenly for tumbleweeds! they are indestructible....
Used balin' twine can also double as a piggin' string. In the past five years, i've used 'em for:
Lead ropes
halters
fix fence
tie up gates with busted latches
MAKE fence (gonna have to get pics of this in the day time- it's here at the house!)
dog leads
tied the fancy-schmancy heated electronic mirror back on my Expedition when I forgot about the mirror's position whilst throwing a bale of hay off the top... in my defense, i'd only owned it a few months!
Ponytail holder
belt
That MAY be it for now.... let me get back to you on that....
I agree that there are a million and 2 things that hay bale twine can be used for BUT ,, Be Very Careful using it to Handel horses with. We had two young not quite yearling fillies get out of their pasture and into the bigger pasture with a small herd of cows and a gelding. My uncle just grabbed up a couple of pieces and was sort of braiding them as he was going out to catch a filly, the fillies were very tame and we knew with one caught the other would just come along with,, OK so he catches one and yup the other is following along,, then that darn gelding decides he ain't though playing and takes off running and goes right between my uncle and the filly. He lost his ring finger that day. it really wasn't a bad 'wreck' as far as ' dumb things horses can make you hurt yourself doing' and if it had been a leather or nylon lead nothing would have happened except that gelding would have been run off to the other side of the pasture. But that twine litterly sliced the whole finger in half length ways, from the joint that connects it to the hand all the way to the tip laying bare the whole finger bone. I'll tell you right now . there is not a person on this ranch that will pick up a hay twine to work with an animal ..
Okay, tell the former city gal what a piggin string is please.
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Originally Posted by Cathy4017
A "piggin" string is the length of rope used to tie the calf's legs after it's roped. The roper ties any 3 feet, then raises both hands in the air--timing.
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Originally Posted by songinthewind7
Thanks Cathy.
I've been to rodeos before but have never heard this term before. I was going to google it but figured it wouldn't be mentioned so I asked.
Originally a piggin string was and still is used when a lone cowboy is out and needs to Handel a calf without anyone to help. I understand that for 99 and 9/10ths of the population only See's it being used as part of the calf roping contest in a rodeo.
but for a real working ranch hand it is a real tool and since there ain't no one to time the job it has nothing to do with how fast but how well it's tied. It can be very painful to be up close and personal with a 300 lbs. calf that kicks loose and uses your head as the starting point as he runs off to his mama .
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