Trying out new hay tarps to preserve the hay without storage in a building.
Thanks to nostr:npub1szlawrnh4kzvq9yfuegvpz0ws8h5zywea4n2d4zf3kdd3g9tenwqnqn3du for the tip on using pallet covers as hay tarps for 4x4 round bales. Putting this new hay taping method to the test. In the past, we've used large used billboard tarps to cover many bales of hay at once all stacked together. Managing the large tarps proved to be too difficult to maintain its longevity and we found ourselves replacing them ever couple years. With plenty of moldy hay in the meantime as the tarp degraded. I'm now trying to cover each individual bale of hay with a $20 pallet tarp. It's perfectly sized to fit over a 4x4 round bale of hay. The idea is that we will tarp individual bales with the pallet covers then tarp over the whole group of bales with the degraded billboard tarp to better protect the pallet cover tarps. Then when we use a bale we can easily fold up and properly store the pallet covers. Hopefully this method ends up lasting until we finally build a proper barn for hay storage.
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