I keep thinking there’s some sort of weaving project just waiting to be imagined.
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I have an old bushel basket I accrue haystrings in. Neatly wound up in pairs as they come off a bale. The filled basket goes in the trash, but the little rolls are stashed in my garage, chicken coop, anywhere I might use the twine.
I crisscross it as a “roof” for the hens’ open fenced yard. I read hawks see the twine as a solid barrier. In 15 years no hawk has ever gotten into the yard.
I have lost freeranging hens to hawks, so my current wee flock (6 hens & a rooster) are confined to that yard.
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the twine from hay is much sought after around here as people use the twine to tie bundles of limbs for trash pickup, where we live as long a the limbs are bundled they have to be picked up
More than once random people have stopped by to see if we had any hay twine
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My upstairs hall closet has a laundry chute in the floor, there’s a door in the floor that lifts up which is nice but you have to bend down to grab the handle which is a bit inconvenient if you have an arm full of dirt laundry. Shortly after moving in I installed a screw eye in the wall at hand height and tied a piece of orange baling twine between it and the laundry chute handle. It worked beautifully and I had plans on putting in something more permanent and not as trashy-looking. Ten years later that piece of orange baling twine is still there
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I love that! Great re-use of baling twine.
And it’s still functional 
… even continuous-use baling twine may outlast the next ice age …
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Christmas gift possibilities at the feed store … with clues that a horse is involved …
Kids love these …
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Many of us have been there, though not necessarily with a brick wall…
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Oh Howard. 
Owner says she hopes he’s learned a lesson. Betting he didn’t. 
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My first thought is “I really must wash my helmet liner.” And then I forget until the next time…
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My entry in that category.
After probably a year of using a broken fork.
Because: Stubborn (& cheap)
Field-tested this morning & does the job in my aisle.
Acid test will be in a stall - after this morning’s cussing at balls that fall through the gaps & hand picking to add them to the fork 
Extra Points for realizing my latest load of hay is baled w/pink twine 
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Very resourceful. It almost looks like a loom!
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You could make your own haynets with the hay twine.
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That’s an interesting idea. I’m always amazed how some of the participants on survival shows like “Alone” weave their own fishing nets.
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I frequently REPAIR my haynets with baling twine, and it occured to me that (generic) you could make the whole thing with baling twine.
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I repair mine too. When my horse sharks figure out a way to gnaw a portal hole inside. Years ago I wove turnout halters to lead from barn to pasture (just a head stall and nose band ) and lead ropes out of hay string and old fittings. I remember my grandma used to make door mats out of old bread bags. Wonder if I could weave that. Also growing up my Momma had a huge loom. Took up almost half a room. Wonder if that would have made creating things easier. All the things I created I just kind of French braided in. With 2 hay strings of different colors x 3 threads.
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I have a lunge whip in my Subaru 
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How do people fit a shorter longe whip, more of the flicker kind, into a compact SUV? It doesn’t fit in the cargo hatch area horizontally or diagonally. I stopped bringing it because the only way I figured to put it down interferes with the seating area. So I use my dressage whip instead, to move horses around on the longe line – not ideal.
The only method I know is to lay it through the openings between the seats, in a front-of-car to back-of-car manner.
This kind, 5’ to 6’ in length.
(At this point, I don’t need the big full length with long lash type. Have one, it’s stored, at this point.)
Fleck makes a telescopic lunge whip
https://www.doversaddlery.com/fleck-telescopic-lunge-whip/p/X1-1471/
Around here that is called a “buggy whip”.
Livestock supply houses sell them.
We use it to work cattle, some times with a plastic bag/flag on the end.
The swishing noise it makes really gets cattle’s attention.
Ours fits exactly on the back of the pickup seats, right behind people’s heads, the rigid end is about 4’+ and the rest hanging down on one side.
I would guess it would fit similarly over many car back seats.
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