Baling wire, otherwise known as "farm wire" or "soft wire," is primarily used in an agricultural setting for everything from mending fences to manually binding square bales of hay, straw, or cut grass. A farm is an area of land including various structures devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food ( Produce, Grains, or Livestock A wire is a single usually cylindrical, elongated string of drawn Metal. A straw bale is a bundle of Straw tightly bound with twine or wire
Baling wire is commonly used in many non-agricultural applications, usually in an informal, make-do manner. It is frequently referred to as one of the basic repair materials. Typical uses range from supporting loose mufflers to patching chain-link fences. A muffler (or silencer in British English is a device for reducing the amount of noise emitted by a machine A fence is a freestanding structure designed to restrict or prevent movement across a boundary Common phrases often include baling wire as an ad hoc, fix-anything material, alongside chewing gum, duct tape, and the cable tie. Ad hoc is a Latin phrase which means "for this [ Purpose ]" For songs called "Chewing Gum" see Chewing Gum (song Chewing gum is a type of Confectionery traditionally made of Chicle Duct tape (sometimes called duck tape; A cable tie (also colloquially known as zip tie, zap strap, mouse belt, tie wrap, quick draw, or rat belt) is a type of It is also known as "Haywire".
Its closest industrial (proper name) is Mechanic's Wire (Soft Annealed Mechanic's Wire , 18 AWG)
In Australia, baling wire was used in mechanical hay balers pulled behind a tractor. The baler had a "knotter" that tied the bale so it kept its shape after the baler had pressed the hay into a tight rectangular bale. These Hay balers were in use up until the late 1970s. When the hay was fed to the stock the wire was cut and hung in bundles around the farm. Farmers used the soft wire for fixing almost everything you could think of on the farm. From old leather horse harness to pins to keep castellated nuts in place on the tractor. Even tiny screwdrivers were made by cutting a short length of wire and looping one end for grip. The other end was then flattened and shaped to make a screwdriver for those fiddly jobs like replacing the tiny screws in reading glasses.
Baling wire was one of the most useful products ever used on the land but it was replaced by baling twine in the late 1970s.
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