[Ag-eq] Hay balers

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Jewel:

I think you're on the right track, but not sure.  I should be able to remember;
my Dad and Grandpa used to bale the hay every summer.  I know it is mown first
and then raked.  There may be another step, but can't remember.  The raked hay
is in rows.  I do remember that the baler was always breaking.  You have to
have the tention set just right.  The equipment is probably better than what we
had 40 years ago.

Everyone is doing the hay around here.  It's been a difficult year due to all
the rain.  We had a flash flood last weekend and a lot of hay got washed away. 
Fortunately the flood just went across one corner of my field and nothing was
damaged, not even my fence.

Nella


Quoting Jewel via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>:

> How do they work?  I looked it up on WikiHow, but learned nothing.
> When I had my sight, eons ago, I think that I may have seen one at work.
> What I imagine happens is that the baler collects up the dried grass into a
> hopper, and then a
> mechanical hand picks up a clump of grass from the hopper, drops it into a
> box the size of a
> bale,and that grass is compressed, and then another and another and another
> clump is compressed
> until the box is full at which point, somehow or
> other, the twine is tied around the bale, the bottom of the box opens and the
> completed bale drops
> onto a conveyor belt which then dumps it  on the ground ready to be stacked.
> How does that sound?  Is it anything like what, actually, happens?
>
>            Jewel
>
>
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