“It hadn’t been used for a couple of years, so the twine-tie square baler was sold on an internet auction.” Small square bales of hay are a lot of work, but nearly essential for most livestock ...

Photo A: The author’s grandson, Austin, experiments with using the baler to form a bale. When you build your own wooden hay baler, you can hand bale hay without the need for equipment, so you can ...

30 October 2020, Lower Saxony, Ronnenberg: Bales of straw, decorated with faces, lie at the edge of a field. Photo: Moritz Frankenberg/dpa (Photo by Moritz Frankenberg/picture alliance via Getty ...

For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

Case IH’s new RB6 series variable chamber round baler offers durability and less maintenance with triple seal bearings throughout the machine. This ensures contaminants stay out while lubricants stay ...

With a typical 2.4m x 1.2m x 0.9m (8 x 4 x 3 foot) large square bale weighing about 500-600kg, depending on the material, high density is pushing that weight up to 700-800kg. But is ramming an extra ...

Fixed-chamber balers remain popular in Europe because of the way the livestock are fed, often undercover, and the soft core of the hay bale is less of an issue when it comes time to feed out. Most hay ...

John Deere announced the introduction of the V452M round baler to the North American lineup, providing enhanced productivity and precision to larger-scale hay and forage operations. The V452M ...

Annealed wire – wire that has been made softer and more flexible through its chemistry and heat treatment. Used as banding to secure bales. Auto tie system – a system that automatically ties off bales ...

Individuals living on farms or in rural areas may find that hay baling offers the chance to make a small profit. There is a demand for hay on farms and other producers of livestock. Uses of hay ...