So maybe the modern version of “gone haywire” should be “gone duct tape”. Ha!
I can see why most hay is baled with twine these days. Looks like hay wire wasn’t very reliable.
Charlie Fox:
April 6th, 2014 at 4:17 pm
In the latter half of the fifties I became quite well acquainted with baling wire both in baling hay and as a repair medium for broken equipment. Replacing the broken equipment with new didn’t last as long as wiring it back together. Baling wire (as I knew it) was virtually indispensable on a farm; without it things were likely to go haywire. Prudent farmers kept a stock of baling wire even if the hay was baled using bonding twine or using string to hold the round bales.
Duct tape is wonderfully useful stuff but is not substitute for wire.
cyd massey:
August 19th, 2019 at 9:51 am
‘haywire’ Always reminds me of the Robert Burns poem, “The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry”.
Alaskadog:
August 30th, 2019 at 5:24 pm
To go haywire means when you were trying is load a machine for baling hay with wire if you let go of the roll of wire at the wrong time it unraveled in a chaotic and unpredictable manner very fast and crazy all over the place…
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Cathy:
May 17th, 2013 at 10:48 am
So maybe the modern version of “gone haywire” should be “gone duct tape”. Ha!
I can see why most hay is baled with twine these days. Looks like hay wire wasn’t very reliable.
Charlie Fox:
April 6th, 2014 at 4:17 pm
In the latter half of the fifties I became quite well acquainted with baling wire both in baling hay and as a repair medium for broken equipment. Replacing the broken equipment with new didn’t last as long as wiring it back together. Baling wire (as I knew it) was virtually indispensable on a farm; without it things were likely to go haywire. Prudent farmers kept a stock of baling wire even if the hay was baled using bonding twine or using string to hold the round bales.
Duct tape is wonderfully useful stuff but is not substitute for wire.
cyd massey:
August 19th, 2019 at 9:51 am
‘haywire’ Always reminds me of the Robert Burns poem, “The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry”.
Alaskadog:
August 30th, 2019 at 5:24 pm
To go haywire means when you were trying is load a machine for baling hay with wire if you let go of the roll of wire at the wrong time it unraveled in a chaotic and unpredictable manner very fast and crazy all over the place…