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Mesmerizing GIF of How Chicken Wire is Made

The gabion machine feeds wire with a fancy splitting trick

By Rain Noe - October 23, 2018

When looking at the hexagonal negative space in chicken wire, you have to wonder: How the heck do they make that? Well, this GIF shows you the gist of it:

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It took me a few moments of watching it to register that those wire-feeding cylinders are actually splitting in half.

Here's what the entire contraption, called a gabion machine, looks like in action:

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Rain Noe

Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.

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