Bales of straw

These look really great, at first thought they were carved out of a weet-a-bix biscuit.

Ummm... Just to clarify. They'd be the dried catkins (but being the male part of the plant I suppose it's the same thing )

Hi Jens, I think the word you're looking for is stamen, semen, at least in English conjure up another image entirely, and not something you'd like to find in little piles around your track.

The stamen (plural stamina or stamens, from Latin stamen meaning "thread of the warp") is the pollen producing reproductive organ of a flower. Stamens typically consist of a stalk called the filament (from Latin filum, meaning "thread"), and an anther (from Ancient Greek anthera, feminine of antheros "flowery," from anthos "flower"), which contains microsporangia. Anthers are most commonly two-lobed and are attached to the filament either at the base or in the middle portion. The sterile tissue between the lobes is called the connective.

As taken from Wikipedia.

Regards Jason

PS the bales look amazing

Nice use of a free material!

Yapp! I like springtime!

Nice bales. Thx for this tip. However, having bucked hay in my youth, the wires should go lengthwise, I believe.

This morning I told my wife that I had been advised by some guy on the internet to go down the local woods and to collect large quantities of semen.

There were a few other people in the woods and I asked them where the best spots were to collect semen.

On my return home with two black eyes I found the front door bolted from the inside and a police car parked outside.

My wife is now not speaking to me and I am having to write this reply from the local intenet cafe.....so thanks guys... I think I am going to stick with getting my scenery from the local hobby shop in future!

Seriously though....This is a great tip, and the bails look very realistic.

Yes freaks you are right: lengthwise, its just logic because of the way they come out of the machine. I will have to change this in the next production-run. I will try other wire, too. Maybe something grey... Thanks, Jens

Looks like I will have to wait 'til spring to complete the farm yard. These really do look the part.

They look great Jens. how soft is the material? Do they scratch the paint if a car hits them? I've heard of people using dried oregano if you are an allergy sufferer.