I remember when.............

[Muddyroads]

That was the very first bale we ever wrapped. Note the muck on my overalls from crawling underneath to do 'a few technical adjustments'.

After spending a week building it, and everybody telling us, "It'll never work", the last thing we had on our minds was a few 'incidentals' like guards

We did, however, give her a set of guards and a paint job once we'd proved the idea was a goer......
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So which came first, wrappers or wrap?

 

[spin cycle]

i can remember when you could smoke in pubs and everyone had a pool table........no they're all poncy restaurants

 

[yellowbelly]

So which came first, wrappers or wrap?

Wrap, I think

I reckon cling film was 'a thing' before Lloyd Forster built his.

 

[Muddyroads]

Wrap, I think

I reckon cling film was 'a thing' before Lloyd Forster built his.

I sometimes wonder how these things evolve.

 

[yellowbelly]

I sometimes wonder how these things evolve.

I seem to remember he got the idea from watching a pallet wrapping machine in a factory
Our machine was a complete 'rip off' of the Volac machine. We went to a demo in Nottinghamshire. We realised it was a hell of a lot better than bagging but all the Volac machines were sold out.

We 'sneaked' back to the demo after everybody had gone home, took a few guards off to see how the gearing and everything worked and went home and built one.
Donor machines included a David Brown baler (wheels and axle), a Ysta-matic fert spreader (chassis and gearbox), a Mather and Platt pea viner (hyd motor and valves), MF 625 combine (sprockets and chains) and an industrial conveyor in Scunthorpe steelworks (rollers and carrier wheels).

 

[Av Gorritt]

I remember even further back . We went to Burgess's of Macclesfield to see this new wrapper , quite revolutionary . It consisted of a rear mounted film carrier on a longish over-arm with a braked roll of 500 mm film . There was a roller which pushed the bale along whilst the film rotated round it . The film certainly came first as it was used in the packing industry to shrink wrap pallets . there was no way of controlling the bale other than by pushing it with the tractor - how it would cope on uneven land I'm not sure , but it was demonstrated on a flat concrete yard ! I don't think it was considered a success and of course the wrappers as we now know them came along

 

[Muddyroads]

We used to call the bags elephants condoms.

 

[Henarar]

Was he called Lloyd Forster?

I can't remember

 

[Old apprentice]

We had two mf 35 tractors around 68 dad baught amf65 thaught it was great pulling a Heage out with 65 had a loader on one 35 loaded thornes with it. Thaugot it was great. Jcb 4cx had not been invented then ,wicked tool for farm work and some digging front loader hydrolic fast work.

 

[Henarar]

Wrap, I think

I reckon cling film was 'a thing' before Lloyd Forster built his.

think the first bale was wrapped with a hand wrapper with clingfilm

 

[glasshouse]

I remember even further back . We went to Burgess's of Macclesfield to see this new wrapper , quite revolutionary . It consisted of a rear mounted film carrier on a longish over-arm with a braked roll of 500 mm film . There was a roller which pushed the bale along whilst the film rotated round it . The film certainly came first as it was used in the packing industry to shrink wrap pallets . there was no way of controlling the bale other than by pushing it with the tractor - how it would cope on uneven land I'm not sure , but it was demonstrated on a flat concrete yard ! I don't think it was considered a success and of course the wrappers as we now know them came along

I had lodgings in 81 with a couple and the husband was a plastic expert
He wanted to try shrink wrapping a round bale , but somehow we never got round to it!!

 

[yellowbelly]

think the first bale was wrapped with a hand wrapper with clingfilm

Yeah, I remember somebody locally that had one that rotated the bale on a 3 point linkage mounted spike. The film was on a hand held braked spool. They only used it for straw and didn't do the ends.

 

[Kidds]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1840369542798922

 

[Henarar]

I remember even further back . We went to Burgess's of Macclesfield to see this new wrapper , quite revolutionary . It consisted of a rear mounted film carrier on a longish over-arm with a braked roll of 500 mm film . There was a roller which pushed the bale along whilst the film rotated round it . The film certainly came first as it was used in the packing industry to shrink wrap pallets . there was no way of controlling the bale other than by pushing it with the tractor - how it would cope on uneven land I'm not sure , but it was demonstrated on a flat concrete yard ! I don't think it was considered a success and of course the wrappers as we now know them came along

chap next door used a wrapper like that for years, can't remember what make it was now, it done the job ok just push the bale up hill

 

[glasshouse]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1840369542798922

Honey i shrunk wrapped the kids

 

[box]

I remember the 2wd Leyland 262 with front end loader which always seemed to be getting stuck in very flat, slightly muddy areas. Nice engine though.

I remember the 1st 4wd tractor on farm, a Zetor 6745, which used to get jammed in gear at the worst possible time.

First new tractor on farm was a Case 1294 which used to jump out of gear at the worst possible time.

All open station tractors, because "cabs are for contractors". Fun times, albeit cold times.

 

[Enry]

Was he called Lloyd Forster?

He was the man who first made round bale silage in bags / sheeted stacks in the early 80’s using a NH chain and slat baler

 

[Clive]

i remember sprayers and fert spreaders that had to be driven at an exact and constant speed / revs and combines with a clutch you had to use to go backwards

 

[Hfd Cattle]

The flat 8 sledge and grab came to us in early 70's I think . What a revolution !

 

[Will 1594]

i remember sprayers and fert spreaders that had to be driven at an exact and constant speed / revs and combines with a clutch you had to use to go backwards

Bloody hell clive still plenty spreaders and sprayers you still do that today with
A s be plenty old combines about on small farms still manual