When we fed the cows, Dad had a specific way he wanted the baling wire cut, folded and wrapped, so it could easily be reused for whatever was needed. We had a huge stack of the stuff. That was 40 years ago and I still have some of those wires neatly folded and wrapped in my shop, and tool boxes.
Nowdays I usually grab one of the remnant rolls of SS wire they use to wrap phone cable on overhead lines. It's easier to work with than the baling wire, last longer, but it is not as strong.
That's exactly right!
You cut both wires near the twist, pulled them off the hay bale, then pulled both wires even, and folded them in half, then folded them like that two more times until it was about 8-9 inches long... then you took one end wire and went around the bundle a couple times. That held it all together until you needed it. Then it would all come apart easily.
If you didn't know how to cut, fold and wrap baling wire, you were a greenhorn!
