[AT] Finally baling

Grant Brians sales at heirloom-organic.com
Thu Jul 26 11:43:30 PDT 2012


I also found Matthias' baler interesting and different. Ralph's haybine was
very familiar to me as I have used a similar unit in the past and own a 1969
Hesston 12' cut unit that I have cut lots of hay with over 20 years time or
thereabouts. Since I don't currently harvest hay with my vegetable operation
the hay equipment is temporarily "resting".
     The New Holland swathers and haybines traditionally were the equipment
of choice to use for hay cutting here in California after the sickle bar
mower was no longer considered efficient enough. One year I cut some 7 foot
tall Oats for hay using our Hesston Mower-conditioner. That was really
interesting to do and the best grain hay yield I ever had.
     Please tell us more about your baler, Matthias.
         Grant Brians
         Hollister,California vegetables, fruit and nuts farmer

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Subject: Re: [AT] Finally baling


On 7/26/2012 12:58 AM, Mattias Kessén wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4YAgTY2yBs&feature=g-upl
>
> After a cold wet summer I finally managed to cut the hay on sunday but of
> course it had to rain some on monday morning. But the temperatures are
nice
> above 80 F.
>
Interesting video Mattias. I have never seen a baler, or bales, like
that before. Ours are either small squares, large squares, or round.
Yours appears to make loosely packed squares and I wonder how good they
are for stacking. Usually it needs a tight square bale to make a good
weather proof stack.
I made a few small square bales to re-stock my hay loft this summer but
mostly I do the large round bales as they are a lot easier to handle. My
back and knees do not tolerate handling small squares by hand as I used
to a few years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E1tcVXZib8

Ralph in Sask.

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