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Chris Doyle
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Username: Christel
Post Number: 201
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Friday, Nov 3, 2006 - 9:25 am: |   |
While I have used everything from rough edged bricks to rusted bolts to cut thru nylon holding a bale of hay together, one day a bot knife was sitting on shelf so I used it- works great.
I feed out of 3 different places and plan on putting a bot knife in all places- they also come in handy for what they are intended- but it seems like everything else, they are never handy when you need them.
When I have hay that has the steel wire and have buried my wire pliers under the hay- somewhere, and cant find them, I have to resort to untwisting each wire- I have not been clever enough to figure something else out for the wire.
Chris |
Cheryl Kallenbach
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Username: Cheryl
Post Number: 199
Registered: 2-2000
| | Posted on Friday, Nov 3, 2006 - 10:28 am: | |
Chris - anything that is long enough for leverage can be used to open either wire or string - ie a section of one of the metal step-in fence posts - I've used hammers - all sorts of implements normally found in a barn - just slip one end under the wire - twist it back over the wire and just twist until the wire breaks - usually while saying bad words because I can't find the wire cutters  - works the same with string - usually takes a few more twists because the string is not as tight as the wire.
Cheryl |
Corinne Meadows
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Username: Corinne
Post Number: 616
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, Nov 3, 2006 - 11:09 am: | |
Chris...I know this sounds foolish but I thought a bot knife was for cutting things. What is it actually intended for? To scape Bot eggs I presume....I never thought of that.  |
Little King Ranch
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Username: Eoeo
Post Number: 291
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, Nov 3, 2006 - 12:37 pm: | |
If you are in a pinch and don't have something sharp to cut the nylon twine, take another piece of twine and slip it under the twine and holding it on either side, use it to saw back and forth until it snaps. I have used a cigarette lighter to burn the twine when I didn't have another piece handy, but don't recommend that at all!!! |
Chris Doyle
Member
Username: Christel
Post Number: 203
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Friday, Nov 3, 2006 - 1:29 pm: | |
ROFL- Corinne-?- are you blonde? I am, guess thats why I thought this tip was good-lol- I NEVER thought of using a 'bot' 'knife' (duh) to cut things till now :0- it actually works well at scraping off bot eggs.
Little King Ranch- never thought of the lighter- which is a good thing, dang it, wish you hadn't mentioned it-;)
Cheryl, done that too when the twists are to short to untwist, have also resorted to man handling the bale (while grabbing wire on one side kicking in middle) till it's crooked and easily busted up- home video of that would be humorous. |
Sullivan's Cutting Horses
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Username: Sully
Post Number: 80
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Friday, Nov 3, 2006 - 2:56 pm: | |
LOL everyone seems to have their own choice ways of opening them bales. I never cut the strings. I pull 1 side off and twist flakes from the other side. I then use the intact twine to re-tie my bale and keep it together. If I am using the whole bale, then I just push on the middle of the twine side and don't have to search for it cause its still in my hand |
Stacy Upshaw
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Username: 36541
Post Number: 204
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, Nov 4, 2006 - 6:12 am: | |
Ha! I've used the bot knife on the nylon strings for the last two years - ever since my little boy was really wanting to help at the barn and I needed safer tools around. I never would have thought to use it before the kids but now I use it for lots of tasks. It takes an almost four year old about 15 fascinated minutes to open a bale of shavings with it. I had to get a second one for the two year old so they could do the shavings in separate stalls. No lacerations thus far! |
Linda Christian
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Username: Savage
Post Number: 124
Registered: 5-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, Nov 4, 2006 - 1:33 pm: | |
I used a screw driver to break them, just stick under the twine then bring the end of the screw driver over the top of the twine and start twisting. |
Lee
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Username: Paul303
Post Number: 774
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, Nov 5, 2006 - 10:39 pm: | |
Now...just possibly....we've found a new place to keep our "Ginsu (as seen on TV $14.95)knife".
JUST LOOK AT THE WAY IT CUTS RIGHT THROUGH THIS OLD SNEAKER!!! THIS METAL CAN!!!! WHY, IT EVEN CUTS THROUGH THIS PENNY THEN SLICES A TOMATO AS IF IT WERE BUTTER!!!!
Sure sounds like the PERFECT barn tool...I'm off to my kitchen! If it makes it through my sneaker, out to the barn it goes! |
Sullivan's Cutting Horses
Member
Username: Sully
Post Number: 81
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, Nov 5, 2006 - 11:19 pm: | |
LOL Lee....I have one that must be 15 yrs or older...works great for cutting hunks of sod out of my yard and any thing else I can find! |
Chris Doyle
Member
Username: Christel
Post Number: 205
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Monday, Nov 6, 2006 - 9:11 am: | |
Stacy- another neat idea. I have found that a bot knife doesn't do well in a pocket, hard to get in and hard to get out, I long ago lost the plastic cover that was included when new, thus I decided it best to purchase one for every feed room-funny how one figures these things out.
Lee-lol- maybe a gingsu knife in every feed room?
Chris |
