[Ag-eq] Hay balers

[Zach Mason]

I'll try to write in more detail, but all steps listed so far are right I
think. I don't handle the equipment at home, but I know the process.

Zac

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From: Ag-eq [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Nella Foster via
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Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 7:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Hay balers

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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