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A baler or hay baler is a piece of farm machinery used to compress a cut and raked crop (such as hay, cotton, flax straw, salt marsh hay, or silage) into compact bales that are easy to handle, transport, and store. Often, bales are configured to dry and preserve some intrinsic (e.g. the nutritional) value of the plants bundled.
Several different types of balers are commonly used, each producing a different type of bales – rectangular or cylindrical (round), of various sizes, bound with twine, netting, or wire. The round hay baler was invented by Ummo F. Luebben of Sutton, Nebraska, which he conceived with his brother Melchior in 1903, and then patented in 1910.
Allis-Chalmers Roto Baler Allis-Chalmers Small Square Baler. The first model introduced in 1947 was called the "Roto-Baler" and the fore-runner of modern round balers, albeit with much smaller bales. The Roto-Baler had a production run from 1947 to 1964 and then again from 1972 to 1974. [48] Allis Chalmers also built many small square baler models.
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The first larger round hay baler was invented by Gary Vermeer in 1971. Allis Chalmers first introduced the small round rotobaler in 1947. Vermeer begins building large trenchers to lay underground pipelines in the 1980s. The first Vermeer horizontal directional drill is introduced in the 1990s. [9]
Baling twine or baler twine is a small diameter sisal or synthetic twine used to bind a quantity of fibrous material (notably hay or straw) into a more compact and easily-stacked form. [citation needed] Tensile strengths of single-ply baling twine range from 95 psi (0.66 MPa) to 325 psi (2.24 MPa). [1] [2]
A mechanized baler does both operations and can bale over 100 trees per hour. [3] According to the Berks-Mont News, the motorized christmas tree baler was invented in Pennsylvania in 1944. [4] A manual baler may also keep the branches compressed by encasing the tree in a plastic netting, rather than wrapping them with twine.
Balers are usually pulled by a tractor, with larger balers requiring more powerful tractors. Mobile balers, machines that gather and bale hay in one process were first developed around 1940. The initial balers produced rectangular bales that were small enough for an individual to lift, typically weighing between 70 and 100 pounds (32 to 45 kg ...