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as kid growing up on a ranch we used wire in our hay bailers, now it seems like all the balers use twine now, back in the day we only used twine for round bales. The are other wire out there mainly for tieing rebar together its not the right guage. The nice thing about old school bailing wire is I could take a pair of pliers and twist the crap out of it till it was mega tight. Now I can't get any without spending $150 for an entire box. any other sources I got a few things around that would be nice to have some bailing wire to tie up.

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Most all trapping supply places have "trapping wire " of different gauges which is pretty much the same old annealed iron wire that bailing wire is. Average about $5.00 a spool

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The last baling wire I found was wrapped around my brand new mower blades. frown frown File that under $%^& dammit dammit dammit.

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Search Ebay for "mechanic's wire". Same stuff as baling wire, annealed bare steel wire, 18 gauge. It's available from 25 foot to 5 lb. rolls- - - -cheap!
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Just go down to your barn and break open a bale....grin


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Originally Posted by cumminscowboy
as kid growing up on a ranch we used wire in our hay bailers, now it seems like all the balers use twine now, back in the day we only used twine for round bales. The are other wire out there mainly for tieing rebar together its not the right guage. The nice thing about old school bailing wire is I could take a pair of pliers and twist the crap out of it till it was mega tight. Now I can't get any without spending $150 for an entire box. any other sources I got a few things around that would be nice to have some bailing wire to tie up.


Cumminmecowboy,

I'd love to help out.

But all the retailers I know of won't sell to retards.

Best of luck.



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The local Co-op sells 16 ga or 14 ga galvanized fence wire in 5 lb spools. That is what I use for tie wire. It is a bit more expensive than grabbing a hunk of old wire after feeding. But on the other hand, we no longer have big piles of used wire all over the place.


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Originally Posted by okie
Just go down to your barn and break open a bale....grin


yeah yeah, I am pretty much a city slicker these days. as a kid we basically had this crap laying around like it was garbage. I think the correct gauge is 14 gauge

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I have some 14g sitting right here. ("Trappers wire ") seems kinda light, but I think actual real baling wire is 14- 14.5 like was said.

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Baling wire in full rolls is still available. I keep a roll in my shop.

Lots of sheep guys still prefer wire bales over twine.

Google search will help you find it for sale.


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TSC has 17 gauge fencing wire in rolls from 100' on up. 100' was $5.

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the suggestion on trapper wire was golden!!! I have 11 and 14 gauge coming. about $6 bucks for each in a small role. never thought I would see the day I would actually order baling wire and pay for it. holy crap I am laughing inside.

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14 gauge electric fence wire..........the 17 gauge is too light

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There better be new scope testing videos coming. I think 14 gauge wire is too small for attaching scopes to pavilion structures.


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There better be new scope testing videos coming. I think 14 gauge wire is too small for attaching scopes to pavilion structures.

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Originally Posted by cumminscowboy
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Just go down to your barn and break open a bale....grin


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