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Hay usually gets baled to form either large round rolls or similarly
sized cubes, but if farmers were to choose the Animal Baler option,
they could cover the countryside with giant creatures, all made out
of straw.
The machine itself is by necessity mechanically complex, but
perfectly capable
of forming and baling up the cut hay into the
simple shapes and forms needed to constitute a variety of large
creatures.
Now after the fields are harvested, we can look forward to large
straw elephants, lined up in neat rows, or any number of other
animals being either randomly placed, or arranged to create
towering structures.
The next great event occurs when the animal bales get fed to the
hungry cows....
http://www.youtube....outube_gdata_player
For bigsleep [xenzag, Jul 20 2013]
Hay there
http://www.cornwall...3.html#.UevTqmt5mSM
now available in Grazing Elephant [xenzag, Jul 21 2013]
Tessellated elephants
http://michael-lapa.../tessellations.html
Solve the transportation problem [scad mientist, Jul 24 2013]
Found my needle!... didn't find any elephants though.
http://www.bing.com...hay+art&FORM=HDRSC2
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 24 2013]
Cows that eat dinosaurs
http://kotaku.com/s...to-eat-h-1728189064
not machine made, but same visual outcome [xenzag, Sep 03 2015]
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Hmm, a 3d printer in hay. |
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Actually yes.... with hay and baling cord I believe you could make just about anything. Won't be able to portray a lot of detail, but large shapes easily achieved. My initial idea was to create pyramids instead of cubes or rolls, but that wasn't halfbaked enough for me. |
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What you really need is some free range grass. |
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//"Cows that eat elephants are easier to raise, with wild
green, dairy haystacks."// very good..... Clearly a
sponsorship deal by the makers of Fairy Liquid is on the
cards (lost on those living in the colonies of course) |
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Dinosaurs. There will be dinosaurs. |
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Could this thing make corn dollies? |
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I hate to sully your idea but a business could be made
of offering to bale hay free and then forming it into
company logos to be placed along the highway. |
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Fixed link... Thanks for pointing out. |
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Large Hay-Drawn Colliders? (ducks) |
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//Large Hay-Drawn Colliders? (ducks)// |
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If the hay bales were bovine shaped would that then make them cownnibals? |
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+ This is so wonderfully whimsical! I live in rural area where there are hay bales in the fields all the time. This would be so much fun and great photo ops, too. |
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Farmers might be reluctant to take up this
fantastic idea for fear of over complicating the
task of shipping the baled hay at the end of the
season, so there might be a need to apply a little
'marketing' by allowing toe-dippers to begin with
Tetris-style shapes. |
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Hours of extra fun when the time comes to load
the bales on to a truck. |
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There might evolve an annual competition to see
who could load a truck quickest, or who could fit
the most complicated shapes into a defined
volume. |
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Bovine-shaped hay bales could also be fed to elephants, providing the old *vice-versa* twist to this idea. |
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With careful design, transportation of elephant shapes does not need to be a problem. See tesselated elephants link. I actually found several different patterns for elephants. |
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Objection! Those elephants are not tessellated in
enough dimensions. |
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Have any of you actually bailed hay? "Mechanically
complex?" |
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I have flung it up into the upper level of a barn using a
pitchfork. Does this count? |
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//Dinosaurs. There will be dinosaurs.// See last link [max] |
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I never saw this, I don't think. I love it. Buns a plenty for you. |
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My initial reaction was eww! prions, but no, a very elegant medium of imagination. |
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Hmm, I came up with this idea but thought to check
previous submissions. Wouldn't have thought to look in the
Food:Dispenser category. If the animal shapes are too
complicated they could at least replicate city skylines by
tweaking the normal rectangular shapes. |
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Cubes are good. We like cubes. |
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// a business could be made of offering to bale hay free and then forming it into company logos to be placed along the highway. // |
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Oh no ... yet more Rentisham's advertising.... |
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