And after the hay is all nicely and neatly baled, and stored, then there's USING it. Often the bale is broken up in the loft to be dropped down in sections ("flakes") through chutes in the floor, to the critters below. Once you snip the haywire, it goes haywire (sprongggggggg, like an autoharp string broken while playing), especially if you used it for "temporary" fencing and it was stretched REAL tight. The piled-up snipped sections snarl up the footing in all the loose hay where the bales are kept.... it becomes invisible till you find yourself flat on your face in it. 'Cuz you are busy trying to feed the critters, not focusing on picking up every last piece every time... like broken guitar/harp/banjo strings tend to get loose in your house no matter how hard you try to wind them up into a nice safe circle so no one gets hurt on 'em. Like that, see?

~Susan