on a lighter note...

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[mdwest]

 

[mdwest]

 

[Brent in Az]

 

[cpr0312]

 

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[PARA45]

 

[Nyati]

 

[Nyati]

 

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[Nyati]

 

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[Nyati]

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[Sabattiboy]

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When I was a kid, 1960's, the newspaper delivery trucks from which kids threw the papers to the houses cut bailing wire off the bundles and wrapped it on a corner post of the truck cover. When it built up they would throw it off. Dad wanted it so whenever we spotted it in a yard or street we brought it home. Sometimes I'd ask the kids when they were pre tying papers and they always gave it to me. I used that wire up into the late 1970's.
Here is a funny from that bailing wire.
It was galvanized. In 1974 I bought a cutting torch set then used a welding tip to weld up a cart for the bottles. I'd be welding away and it would pop. The more it popped the madder I got.
It took me many hours of this to realize it was from the galvanizing on the bailing wire I used for weld filler rod.