| If you're a farmer, you probably already know how | | | | 5. Use tarps to cover piles of hayledge, sileage, grain, |
| incredibly handy good quality tarps can be, but you | | | | and other feed for cows that you need to put out in |
| may not have fully considered all the different ways | | | | the cow yard or pasture and don't want getting wet |
| you could use them to make your life a little easier. | | | | and moldy. |
| Manufactured using tough 12 mil. thick low density | | | | 6. Use tarps to create overhead protection for |
| polyethylene, green heavy duty tarps are strong, | | | | animals kept outdoors from the sun or rain. Use poles |
| resistant to tearing even in the wind (if properly | | | | or stretch and anchor the tarps between roof edges |
| anchored), and totally waterproof. They're also | | | | or whatever is handy to hold them up. |
| flexible, easy to drape and handle, rot and shrink | | | | 7. Protect tractors and machinery that must be |
| proof, and great for use in hot sun or sub-zero | | | | stored outdoors with heavy duty tarps anchored |
| temperatures. Most good quality heavy duty tarps | | | | securely to the ground. |
| have sturdy grommets located every 18" or so along | | | | 8. Tarps make great protection from over spray |
| the edges that make them easy to tie down for | | | | when you're having the barn newly whitewashed |
| dozens of different uses. | | | | inside. Just drape them over everything you don't |
| Here are just a dozen of the ways you can use | | | | want covered with white. |
| them on the farm. You can probably think of many | | | | 9. Bring tarps along into the back forty when you're |
| more! | | | | cutting wood and stretch tarps between tree |
| 1. Cover a load of hay bales when transporting it | | | | branches to help keep wood piles dry. |
| from field to barn or farm to farm. Keep it dry and | | | | 10. Carry tarps in your truck to cover loads in the |
| fresh and lightweight. | | | | truck bed when you're hauling something and the |
| 2. Cover large round bales of hay put into rows | | | | weather turns on you. |
| behind the shed or on the field or stacks of hay | | | | 11. Improvise a roof repair when it starts to leak |
| bales that don't fit into the barn. | | | | while you are right in the middle of plowing, planting, |
| 3. If inclement weather strikes midway through a | | | | or harvesting and just can't stop work and take the |
| barn roof repair, cover the open area until the rain | | | | time to do the repair right. A tarp is a great |
| stops. | | | | temporary repair. |
| 4. Speaking of roofing a barn, throw tarps down | | | | 12. Make a temporary shelter for you when you |
| below the roof edge before you start ripping off the | | | | need to work on machinery or make repairs |
| shingles and then toss the old shingles, nails, and | | | | outdoors in the hot sun or pouring rain. Stretch tarps |
| other debris directly onto the tarps instead of onto | | | | between posts or hooks on buildings at convenient |
| the ground. You won't be finding stray roofing nails | | | | points. |
| with your tractor tires months later and you'll make | | | | How many additional uses can you think of for |
| clean up from the tear off much easier. | | | | utilizing tarps on the farm? |