World's Largest Ball...of Twine

 One of the geocaching stops in Kansas was in Cawker City to see the World's Largest Ball of Sisal Twine.

The circumference sign keeps changing as the ball of sisal twine can keep growing. 

decorated for the holiday

Sisal twine can be purchased across the street and wound around the ball. I imagine you could bring your own from the farm and add it to the ball.

If you added your own, they might not know exactly how many feet are in the ball. Currently it has over 8.5 million feet of twine and weighs more than 27,000 pounds. I wonder who checked that info and how???

A painted yellow line meanders along the Main Street sidewalks of downtown/uptown Cawker City because a local artist has created window displays in some of the buildings called the Ball of Twine "old masters" paintings. She included a piece of twine in each of the paintings.

The display explains how the ball of twine got started and the national recognition it has received.

Many farmers had/have sisal twine with no other purpose than to keep the shape of the hay or straw bales until it was fed to the farm animals. I think we just gathered it up from the feed lot and barn yard and burned it.

a quirky roadside attraction

Cawker City has a Twine-a-thon in August each year where locals and visitors can add twine to the ball.

And this is the interesting part because we have also been to Darwin MN and have seen the World's Largest Ball of Twine. 

World's Largest Ball of Sisal Twine in Darwin MN

Darwin, Minnesota, is the home of a ball of baler twine rolled by Francis A. Johnson. It is 12 feet (3.7 m) in diameter and weighs 17,400 pounds (7,900 kg; 8.7 short tons). Johnson began rolling the twine in March 1950, and wrapped four hours every day for 29 years. It is currently housed in an enclosed gazebo across from the town park on Main Street at to prevent the public from touching it. The town celebrates "Twine Ball Day" on the second Saturday in August every year. ~ Wikipedia

created by ONE MAN

According to Wikipedia, there are several World's Largest Ball of Twine:

Heaviest Ball of Twine - In Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, James Frank Kotera created the heaviest ball of twine ever built. Kotera, known by his initials "JFK," started working on the ball in 1979 and continued until his death in January 2023. The weight of the ball, 24,160 pounds (10,960 kg), was estimated by measuring the weight of each bag of twine. The ball is housed in an open-air enclosure in Kotera's lawn; since Kotera's death, the town has fundraised to move it to the town hall. The ball has a smaller companion, "Junior", that is made of string.

Largest Nylon Ball of Twine - In Branson, Missouri, a ball of nylon twine built by J. C. Payne of Valley View, Texas, is on display in Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum. The ball, which measures 41.5 feet (12.6 m) in circumference, was certified as the world's largest ball of twine by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1993. It is, however, the lightest of the four contenders, weighing 12,000 pounds.