Hay bales with wire on them. The plastic strings now hardly last a year in our sunlight when used to lash something down. Bailing wire lasted generations!
I dang sure don’t miss the days of hauling square bales with bailing wire. Repaired many miles of barbed wire fence with bailing wire when I was a kid. GrandDad had a barn full of spare bailing wire. Never threw anything away, of course, as most farmers and ranchers that survived the Great Depression.
How much lighter is a three "wire" bale now that the wire is plastic?
I just get straw/hay by the small bales for chicken yard litter and some for garden mulch.
I don't notice any difference than "the old days"
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
