Buried baling twine... In a grid pattern!

[blueriver]

I'm thinking round bales ... twine tied. Is it an area where someone may have been feeding livestock and not removing the twine? When I bought this place 8 years ago the old boy had been feeding round bales in a lot and never removed the twine ... I still find them in that area.

A round baler has continuos twine when the baler starts the tie cycle ... that could explain the long pieces.

 

[GPintheMitten]

Aliens did it.

 

[aczlan]

Sounds like a landscape rake could do the trick if you have more left...

Aaron Z

 

[jomar215]

Someone had a large "Square Foot Garden"

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Really Rose: April 2009
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I think you found the answer. Garden grew in after use and it was easier just to sell the place than clean it up ....

 

[LD1]

Sounds like an excavation grid for an ancient burial grounds.

Thats what I was thinking

 

[dougb256]

I'm thinking round bales ... twine tied. Is it an area where someone may have been feeding livestock and not removing the twine? When I bought this place 8 years ago the old boy had been feeding round bales in a lot and never removed the twine ... I still find them in that area.

A round baler has continuos twine when the baler starts the tie cycle ... that could explain the long pieces.

This sounds the most plausible to me. I'm hoping that we have fixed the problem; I'll be out there working on it this weekend, cleaning up / leveling / getting rid of Johnson grass. I find it odd that it has been in this condition for what appears to be at least a few years, when it took us less than a week altogether to clean it up. People can be funny at times :confused2:

 

[Mistyridgefarm]

I bought a "lazy farmers" farm. You would be surprised how long it takes to fix all the problems. Ruts from logging, steel posts in the the middle of the field, even a whole cedar log right in the middle of grown up pasture. The plastic baling twine will take a century to get rid of!

I agree it sounds like round bales, although the 1" grid is still baffling. I think I doubled the size of my fields just lambing and cleaning up the edges. Have fun!

 

[dougb256]

We must be neighbors - our back fence line is the county line between Lawrence and Giles counties.

 

[phiferpharm]

I ran into the twine problem a few days ago in an area I had set up for one of my mini-horses to graze while I worked on his pasture. It sounds like a similiar problem with what looked like red "shoots" interspersed throughout a 20X20 area. I've owned this for 5 years, and it was the first time I noticed it. I moved the temp panels and just started pulling it up. I have a Ratch rake, but the grass looks good in the area, so I didn't want to tear it up any worse than I had to.

From some of the other items I have found here, I'm sure it was a a small area the former owner set up using short metal posts (almost like rebar) and some type of electrical wired fence ( my mower used to "find" that all the time). If that's the case, I vote for hay bales put down still wrapped.

 

[sdkubota]

Sounds like it could be an erosion control mat placed down prior to planting to hold the grass.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Thats what I was thinking

I was thinking CSI style crime scene...

David

 

[kf4uda]

We must be neighbors - our back fence line is the county line between Lawrence and Giles counties.

Wow, Pulaski and Summertown folks. TBN is getting close. Hey guys I guess I am a neighbor too. I am in Lawrence Co. about 8mi out of Summertown toward Henryville. I am going to vote for a round bale feeding area as far as the twine grid goes. There could of even been a round bale unroller in use.

The square foot garden bed picture that bcp posted reminds me of a tobacco plant bed which would be common around here but I can't associate the twine grid to it.

 

[Mistyridgefarm]

OP, we are pretty close for Internet "neighbors". I'm in Giles but over near I65.

I'm still baffled on the grid pattern. Any chance you could post a picture of it?

I spent the evening trying to reclaim about a half acre grown up in locust trees. Using the chain saw because the darn things don't push out well with the fel. I still have 20 or so to go.

 

[dougb256]

Sorry, the only pic that I could provide would be one showing a pile of baling twine ready to be bagged up. If I come across any more buried twine I'll take a pic and post it.

 

[Hoosier Hay Man]

Aliens did it.

My thoughts exactly. Could be related to crop circles.

Possibly they kept moving the bale feeder which would explain the large area.

 

[cowski]

it is where roll hay was fed.let frost kill the johnson grass ,then burn it off.that will get rid of most of it on top of the ground.

 

[biker4jc]

Ok .... were there ever greenhouses set up there? Could these be some of the strings used to tie up cucumber plants or something along those lines?

 

[California]

Would it help get the last of it removed, by going over the area with a deep ripper or the rippers on a box blade?

I saw something similar once. The demolition contractor on a school replacement used a deep ripper to tear sprinkler pipe out of the huge lawns. This worked great - until he ripped out a pressurized undocumented water main that came into the campus from the street. That ripped a hole in the big water main in the street. Huge mess! Your story reminded me of seeing that.