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Mesmerizing GIF of How Chicken Wire is Made

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:

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: