Shoe string

It seems to me most farms are run on a shoe string. Specifically, farms are run on baling string and nails. There is so little profit on livestock and milk that farmners are natural corner cutters and reclycling experts.

In this case, its staples and nails that are being recycled, kept in a corner of the barn waiting their next use.

The barn smells wonderfully of straw, hay, diesel and oil. This is the oily corner where the grease gun, the oil cans and the electric welder live. When welding and greasing no longer keep agricltural equipment working it is sidelined to a nearby hedge. But it is kept nevertheless, just in case....