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Bought some bales with net wrap. Never been around the stuff.
I use bale feeders and was wondering if a guy has to remove the net from every bale as you feed or will the cows eat around it and let it rot like they do twine string.
 
Remove it. If you don't it will wrap around your spreader beater or get tangled in tillage equipment. As someone else stated be very careful not to get it wrapped around axles or MFD hubs. Quickest way to take out some spendy seals. Cows will not eat it, at least mine don't, but its plastic so it never rots. I either burn mine or use it to plug small sinkholes that drop in. A big wad of the stuff makes an excellent plug because it makes a unmovable mass when dirt infiltrates it.
 
That net stuff is bad news and will be around when they put you 6 foot under. Remove it and then find some place good to get rid of it or it will end up where you do not want it and cause BIG problems
 
Yeah, you at least need to pull it back so the cows can get to the hay. Then after they eat the hay you can pick it up. I feed hay on the ground and with wrapped bales I cut the wrap and unroll the bale. Then the next day I can pick up the wrap and throw it away. I know all about twine wrapping on axles. I had some health issues a couple years ago and twine got buit up on the axles of my loader tractor. Now they leak so bad I don't want to cut the twine off. It's all that's holding the oil in.
 
When plastic twine was first used some farmers claimed the plastic would build up in the cow's stomachs. They even had stories about veterinarians posting dead cows and finding the stomachs full of twine. That story died out after awhile. I would think the stuff would pass through the rumen but.......Jim
 
By all means take all of that stuff off. It doesn't take but a minute or two (unless its iced up) and it is a minute or two well spent.
 
Thanks guys. Just what I thought you might say.
I guess an hour of feeding cows will now be two or more.
So much for staying in a heated cab when its 15 below zero.
I pick up two bales at a time and drop them into double bale feeders. Now I'll have to drop them on the ground, seperate them, roll each one onto its side, climb out of the tractor and remove the wrap, get back in, stow the wrap somewhere, pick up each bale one at a time and drop into the feeder.
If this is progress and a better deal, then I just don't get it. I'll never buy wrapped bales again. I'm not lazy mind you, I just have better things to do with my time.
 
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String or net , i will not leave this out for cows to eat on. It doesnt take that long to cut and remove.In fact a lot quicker than with string.I bale my own ,and would not go back to using string again. Net has lot of pluses over string in my opinion.
either way there is a product to get rid off ,unless you left string on now.
( then it will be either eaten ,or worked into the ground!
 
Its nasty stuff, I cut it with a utility knife, and spin the bale on the spear to remove. On bales that I make myself, I use slip on bail bonnets, they cost $3.00/per, but man do they put out heat in the woodstove, each bonnet is worth a piece of locust firewood, in the shop stove!
 
Just give some thought to how you slice off the wrap. I love net wrap.

I pull up to the feeder with the bale on the spear, leave the bale about 1 ft off the ground, cut the wrap, pull it off the bale, throw it over the fence. Most of the time spent is just getting in and out of the cab, only takes about 30 seconds getting the wrap off

Around here everyone grinds their bale with the wrap on, don't think little chunks bother the cows at all, maybe a 30ft long piece would though..
 
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