[Ag-eq] Hay balers

[James K]

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> On Jul 2, 2015, at 6:52 AM, Zach Mason via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> Ag-eq
> 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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rather  raking being done separately as in the past now most people winrow which is where the mowing and raking is done in one step. 
most hay is also wrapped in plastic net rather twine as well.
oandy∫g and