Todays funny

jon f mn

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The first time I saw that photo, the caption was that is how the knotter on a baler works.
 
You're right Corey,

I don't see holding on a dirt bike seat up there! Lol!

Back in the late 70's when me and the kids were big into dirt bikes, half the guys we rode with had their seats tied on with baler twine.

We had a couple of old beaters ourselves that the whole bike was held together with baler twine a duct tape. Ah, the good old days!
 
The Case hand-tie wire baler that we had used pre-cut lengths of baling wire with a loop in one end. The wires were carried in a tube and fed through the metal needles by a guy on the needle side to the guy on the other side who tied the wires together.

When the bales were fed, most people just cut the wire and saved it for "baling wire repairs". However, we had one neighbor that untied the wire and spent hours in the winter month re-straightening the wire to be used again! Now that is thrifty!
 
Farmers have a Degree in Engineering in using baling wire to make it hold and last. We just don't have the little piece of paper hanging on the wall in our office for all to look at.
 
We had a bundle of wire like you described hanging on the wall in the tool shed when I was a kid.....it was a sad day when we used the last piece.

Held a lot of stuff together.

Now I know what it was made for.

Fred
 
My Grampa was a Case dealer around 1950. I think he loaded up on bundles of that Case wire with the loop two days before twine came out. We had several bundles around in the 50 and 60s. Dad had an auction in about 67 and sold most everything but we kept a couple of bundles of that wire I still have maybe 20 pieces left. I'm always torn between using it or should I save it. Problem is nobody else knows what it is and the kids don't care.
 
I don't see the board held on the wall with twine, nor the eraser hanging on a length of it, nor the seating held together with it.

That's indicative of the difference between the "academic" uses of twine, and the real world uses of baler twine, which work out to be about the square of the calculations presented.
 

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