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[Oldpath05]

I finally looked that wrapping machine up, so what happens to all that plastic when the hey is gone................ The cows want to know.

Heres the the beginners model>>> SBW4 Single Bale Wrapper | Vermeer Agriculture Equipment - YouTube
Heres the preferred model and the one I'll operate>>>> McHale Orbital High Speed Round Bale Wrapper - YouTube

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Hey Oldpath, I needed to get a tractor out of the loft of my barn, So I set a couple ramps on my pallet forks/grapple and rolled the tractor on the ramps, then setting it on the ground outside...

That's another thing a dedicated grapple won't do!! ha ha ha

SR

 

[Agvg]

Fertilizing, the only have 600kg bags so loading by bucket it is....

 

[LouNY]

I finally looked that wrapping machine up, so what happens to all that plastic when the hey is gone................ The cows want to know.

Heres the the beginners model>>> SBW4 Single Bale Wrapper | Vermeer Agriculture Equipment - YouTube
Heres the preferred model and the one I'll operate>>>> McHale Orbital High Speed Round Bale Wrapper - YouTube

It's trash hopefully the recyclers manage it.
It would be nice to have an alternative use for all of it.

 

[Agvg]

It's trash hopefully the recyclers manage it.
It would be nice to have an alternative use for all of it.

Not much you can use it for after its unwrapped, here you pay a recycling fee when you buy new plastic and then you deliver it for free to recycling, but it took some years before that system was in place. Hay are not much used so almost all is wrapped so it's quite many tons of plastic.

But I'm not living in the US.

 

[Oldpath05]

Hey Oldpath, I needed to get a tractor out of the loft of my barn, So I set a couple ramps on my pallet forks/grapple and rolled the tractor on the ramps, then setting it on the ground outside...

That's another thing a dedicated grapple won't do!! ha ha ha

SR

Awesome, but wheres the mower deck? looks like a 50 year old Wheel Horse or something........

I'm always a fan of one tool does all. I could do the same at my 8' high loft and was going to with my riding mower but my forks at best is 7' level. So I button up my small shed as good as I could to keep mice out and put it there, just one more reason for two size tractors.

 

[Oldpath05]

It's trash hopefully the recyclers manage it.
It would be nice to have an alternative use for all of it.

Hopefully it's not going into landfills but recycled into more plastic wrapping, I also see sailboats and RVs wrapped in that stuff.

 

[LouNY]

Hopefully it's not going into landfills but recycled into more plastic wrapping, I also see sailboats and RVs wrapped in that stuff.

Once it goes into the dumpster I have no clue,
I'll agree that hopefully it goes no wheres near a landfill.
It is quite often a bit dirty so i have no clue as to the recycleability of it,
but I'm a bit old school if it can't be recycled I hope that it at least goes to a well built and designed burn plant, as the btu value of plastic is huge.
If I was younger I would be awfully tempted to get a pellet maker and use plastic and garbage brush and weeds to make heating pellets,
then a good forced air heat unit.
We have enough waste plastic to heat a couple of farms and households, between bale wrap, ag bags, and all the bagged seeds and other products purchased through out the year.

 

[cat fever]

Big boy farmers here (and every place else I've seen) use a bale "grabber" not a grapple, different tool completely, OR they use an end loader with a bale fork.

Depending on the definition of "tinker toy tractor" you are right, but that isn't how I define one, and I have both. AND just for the record, we hay with bigger tractors than I most often show, too...

Quick example: I have a 6' rotavator, I've shown it many times. I also have a 30hp Deutz "farm" tractor. Over the years, I've put 500 hours on that Deutz custom rotavating with that rotavator.

At one time I bought a 30hp Kubota compact tractor, it seemed nice enough and after a time I decided to try the 6' rotavator on it. Worked OK for smaller gardens, but there's NO WAY I could take it on field jobs, it just didn't have enough nuts to be used for hours and hours on end in field conditions on jobs.

There's the classic difference between a farm tractor and a tinker toy compact tractor!!! They make them with lots of hp, but they just can't compete with an equal hp farm tractor for long tern field work or last as long doing that work.

After a few more "things" like that, I sent that Kubota down the road. Would have make a good play farmer tractor though.

I have compact tractors, I just don't try to use them for real farming... lol

SR

Nice load of hay SR.

This year I didn't even hook up my big trailer. Guys I sold to brought their trailers and I loaded them right from the field. Very nice and they have committed to buy from me every year. The second cut might be a different story, none is sold at this point. Should be cutting in about 3 weeks.

 

[Oldpath05]

We wrap many of our bales with a bale wrapper as silage bales to get a well wrapped bale requires a good shape bale that hasn't been damaged by the handling prior to wrapping so it can be sealed upwell with the wrap and not allow air in to rot it.
Once it's wrapped it can't be punctured for the same reason;
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so we use a squeeze grapple designed for round bales

So how many of these wrap bales do you get and where do you put them, in some sort of shed?