World's First Double Bale Wrap Machine

World's first double bale wrap machine HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Bale Handling (5) 17-2-29 First-of-its-kind 2-bale wrap machine - developed by the Norwegian baler manufacturer Kverneland with the help of a French ag engineering institute - wraps up two bales at once sitting side by side, and then stands the two wrapped bales on end when it dumps them off the back. Wrapping two bales at once saves about 25 percent on plastic and cuts bale wrapping time virtually in half when making silage bales. Bales sit side-by-side on a pair of rollers and the platform rotates slowly while the rollers turn the bales. The plastic-wrap arm remains stationary as the bales turn. Once wrapped, the bale platform raises up vertically, setting the bales on end. A hydraulic-controlled grip arm at one end of the bale platform grabs onto the top end of the bale to steady it. The bale wrapper can also be used to retrieve the double wrapped bales to haul them back to the farm. Standing the bales on end is the easiest way to handle them since most front-endloaders could not handle the heavy double-bale package. Kverneland plans to put the first ma-chines on the market this spring after introducing the bale wrapper at the SIMA Show in Paris. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Kverneland AS, P.O. Box 454, N-4301 Sandnes, Norway (ph 04 622411; fax 04 622415). (Reprinted from Top Cultures Magazine)

To read the rest of this story, download this issue below or click here to register with your account number.