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04/29/2009: "Running the Twine Finder"

This past weekend the weather was pretty dry, so I checked the soil and it seemed to OK run the Twine Finder... what's that, you say? Never heard of a twine finder? Can't find it in the Rankin catalog? Most farms have one, though it's often known by another name.

OK, so I'm pulling your leg. It's usually called the tiller, but on our farm it's a twine finder. Nothing finds twine like the tiller! It finds an amazing amount of it, and then wraps it nicely around the tiller shaft for you, too. Then you get a little 10 minute break from tilling while you crawl out under the back of the tractor with a knife to try and persuade the twine finder to let go of the twine. Sometimes the tiller doubles as a tarp finder, and in a pinch you can use to find large rocks. Why, I only tilled a little over a quarter acre, and look at all the twine I found.



Like most things, there's an explanation for all that #$%^&* twine out in the fields; the prior owner ran a small herd of beef cattle out in the pasture. He probably fed them bales of hay. Hay often comes baled with, you guessed it, orange nylon twine. My guess is that he hauled the bales out there, and being a lazy SOB, just cut the twine and walked off... leaving it for the twine finder.



mmp commented:

I've been running my twine finder too, but there's no twine in our field
that I have found. No too many rocks either. But I did find a metal
bucket. At least I think it was a bucket at one time. It didn't look like
a bucket after the tiller got done with it though.

Definite downside of that nylon twine, though, it lasts forever... When I
was out looking for twine this morning, I was thinking a utility knife with
a rug hook would be the right tool for unspooling twine.

Thanks for the suggestion! - Kurt