Performer Tarp Gallery | Performer Tarp Benefits | Hay & Straw Tarpaulins
The performer hay and straw tarp has proven to be the only way to successfully tarp a stack throughout storage and using from the stack over many years life why?
The difference between and ordinary builder’s type tarpaulin and the Performer Tarpaulin.
| Performer Tarp | Builders Tarp |
|---|---|
| High grade of long life polyweave plastic | Low grade of polyweave plastic |
| Exceptional quality control when manufactured | Low quality control |
| 5 layers of plastic | 1 layer of plastic |
| 7 to 8 years UV protection | 12 to 18 months UV protection |
| Will not go brittle after 12 months use and crack | Will go brittle after 12 months use |
| Polyweave centre for strength, two layers of black plastic one side silver, white the other | N/A |
| Not see through, completely water proof | Transparent, and will let water through |
| Heat under coloured plastic will “cook” the hay and nutritional losses can be extremely high to a depth of 6 feet | |
| White colour facing up will almost completely reflect heat, temperature exchange only 1° to 2° C of heat. | Coloured plastic will exchange 12° to 15° F of heat, black 30° F |
| Hay will not “cook” and lose value | Hay will “cook” and loose feed value |
| Unique tie down system | Eyelets |
| Anchor system pulls on all the sheet | Ropes pull on “½” of plastic |
| Hem stitched along both sides | N/A |
| Plastic pipes approximately 3 feet long with a 12 inch gap allows the anchor system to pull on all the sheet | No inserts |
| Tarps less than 45 feet (13.7 meter) have one dropper rope every 4 feet, 1.2 meter. 45 feet, (13.7 meter) have a dropper rope every 2 feet (0.6 meter) and have a slightly longer plastic pipe insert, which has two dropper ropes attached | Needs ropes to pull on a week eyelet |
| Square bale stacks and round bale ricks stacked high as a square bale rick will have a unique “Super Cinch” tied to the rope as an anchor point | No tie down system |
| We supply a “J-Hook” which threads on to the dropper rope, which you crook onto the string of the bottom bale on a square bale stack, or crooks onto our under stack strapping for round bale stacks | Nothing to tie to, only tyres or bales of straw to weigh down |
| Round bales stacked as a traditional pyramid (4-3-2-1) there is not enough room for “Super Cinch” and under strapping. We use a supplied under rope to go all the way across the stack every 4 feet (1.2 meter) to hook into “Super Cinch”, which is located on the single rope tied in a V shape to the plastic pipe insert | N/A |
| A hem is stitched in the end of sheets that have that have a seatbelt webbing inside that in turn has a rope attached with the “Super Cinch” tie down system. This acts like a draw string. | N/A |
| The tie down system, because of the leverage one is able to create pulling on the rope out of the “Super Cinch” (like a half hitch) your full body weight will create a pull force of between 205lb to 300 lb. two people pulling will create a pull-down fore of 450lb. | Eyelet pull-down strength 50lb to 100lb |
| When using bales from the stack, simply release the rope by pulling down and outward, fold the sheet back in 4 feet (1.2 meter) sections, re-crook the “J-Hook” and pull-down on rope to re-tighten | Untying knots and lifting off tyres etc. |
| Maintenance creates longer life, a tight tarp equals long life | Maintenance almost impossible |
| To maintain, simply retighten by pulling on the ropes every day or two in the first week as stack settles, then retighten every 3 to 4 weeks or before high wind forecast and after | Find blown off shredded sheet and and pay for plastic disposal and have wet fodder or bedding straw |
| 5 years average life, can be longer if well maintained | I years life if lucky |
