Originally Posted by
BengeBoy
I spent a lot of time on my grandpa's farm as a kid. He used twine to bale his hay, but everything around the farm seemed to be held together with baling wire. It never occurred to me before now that it's a complete mystery why he had a seemingly endless supply of baling wire if he used twine to bale his hay.
Probably ordered a huge pile of baling wire, then got a different machine that used twine, and was left with a bunch of baling wire, unlike city folk who would throw that in the trash, farmers just use it for other stuff.