# What are the "giant marshmallow" things I saw laying out in farm fields? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 30, 2014, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-giant-marshmallow-things-i-saw-laying-out-in-farm-fields/691993 "2014-06-30T12:07:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-giant-marshmallow-things-i-saw-laying-out-in-farm-fields/691993/41 "2014-07-02T20:42:22Z")
Locally, we have some major hay production going on now. Just suing the light green plastic to hold them together of the truck rides. 4 & 5 18 wheeler tuck/trailers picking them up and taking them to places with more cows just as fast as they can be rolled up. Still looks like to much work to me. I spent too many hours picking up the old square bales and tossing them on trucks to enjoy anything but the smell since I am now old. We also still have city slickers who don’t know what the white ones are. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-giant-marshmallow-things-i-saw-laying-out-in-farm-fields/691993/42 "2014-07-03T04:56:26Z")
[Mike Edwards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Edwards_(musician))of ELO was killed by a cylindrical hay bale that rolled down a hill, ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-giant-marshmallow-things-i-saw-laying-out-in-farm-fields/691993/43 "2014-07-03T10:50:00Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > [Mike Edwards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Edwards_(musician))of ELO was killed by a cylindrical hay bale that rolled down a hill, Wow. If only someone coulda warned him; ideally by yelling, “HEY!!!”. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-giant-marshmallow-things-i-saw-laying-out-in-farm-fields/691993/44 "2014-07-03T11:41:15Z")
I had a dream once that I was eating a pillow. When I woke up, my Giant Marshmallow was gone. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-giant-marshmallow-things-i-saw-laying-out-in-farm-fields/691993/45 "2014-07-03T23:27:51Z")
I worked on a farm for 10 years some thing I really don’t miss, like making hay. Moving those giant bales takes a specific method. You spear it from the end. My high school girlfriend lived on a farm and a hired hand lifted one with a set of forks on the tractor like lifting a pallet with a forklift. At about 1100 pounds it shifted and he rolled the tractor over and Darwined himself by getting paralized from the waist down. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-giant-marshmallow-things-i-saw-laying-out-in-farm-fields/691993/46 "2014-07-04T03:37:00Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > [HAY!,](http://www.hoards.com/sites/default/files/DES-CF/baleage.gif) Aren’t those individually wrapped roles of giant toilet paper? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-giant-marshmallow-things-i-saw-laying-out-in-farm-fields/691993.md?page=2)