Weaned piglets, finishing pigs and breeder pigs also liked to chew on sisal rope. However, they wear the rope down rather soon, and it needs to be replaced. For this reason, the cost-benefit ratio of ...

Though it is still used in rope, twine, potato sacks and carpets, sisal is being steadily replaced by nylon and other synthetics. Its last bastion is agricultural twine, which now accounts for 75% ...

Mr Alex Odundo demonstrates how sisal fibre is processed using one of his home-made machines, called the decorticator. Right: The spooling machine, which is used to twine sisal fibres. The machine ...

A group of farmers is wrapping up hay bales with an old-fashioned twine to test it as an alternative to plastic string and plastic netting. The twine, made from the sisal plant, was commonly used ...

The twine, made from the sisal plant, was commonly used by farmers until it was replaced by plastic alternatives in the 1970s.

STANDARD ROPE AND TWINE. Share full article Sept. 18, 1901 The New York Times Archives ...