Round baling waste plastic

[Dman2]

Has anyone tried putting used silage wrap through a round baler??
Know of a neighbour who used to use a small square bale, and it seemed to work apart from having to manhandle some quite heavy plastic bricks

 

[PostHarvest]

I baled some a couple of years ago. It worked pretty well but then I found that the bales didn't suit the recycling companies handling system so they wouldn't take them.

 

[Pistonbroke]

I remember an article in one of the farming mags about someone using a claas44 because the feed packer suited

 

[Pebd99]

Used my 435 welger to bale the fert bags. Did a cracking job. Didn’t have much to cut out of the rotor either. Would think silage wrap would be fine as well.

Had 200 bags in there.

 

[Zippy768]

Used my 435 welger to bale the fert bags. Did a cracking job. Didn’t have much to cut out of the rotor either. Would think silage wrap would be fine as well.

Had 200 bags in there.

Howd you get the in? Through pickup?

 

[Pistonbroke]

 

[Dman2]

Think I might have a go at that

 

[holywell farmer]

Think I might have a go at that

Suppose extends the season of a round baler !

 

[essexpete]

Don't think I will be trying that with my old JD 550.

 

[milkloss]

Just don’t get a bit wrapped round your foot.

 

[v8willy]

That's how we sort ours, a years plastic in 1 bale through the Fusion & wrapped as well.

I baled some a couple of years ago. It worked pretty well but then I found that the bales didn't suit the recycling companies handling system so they wouldn't take them.

Haven't tried to out it here yet, but it looks exactly like a bale of silage after it comes off the wrapper....if it was stacked in a mans field he wouldn't be any the wiser till he opened it.....just sayin like

 

[Pebd99]

Howd you get the in? Through pickup?

Yeah through the pickup. Left tractor on tick over and graip them in.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Don't think I will be trying that with my old JD 550.

They won’t bale fodder let alone plastic

 

[essexpete]

They won’t bale fodder let alone plastic

It is quite good at clearing a field of small lumps of brick, concrete, wood, tedder tines and any other small pieces of miscellaneous cr@p.

 

[Pistonbroke]

I'd be scared off by by the thought of the wrap getting in the pick up or round the rotor. Borrow a neighbour's one to try!

 

[Grass And Grain]

Think it might be safer to lay it all out in a row/swath, then drive the baler as normal. Can't be too careful near a baler pickup.

 

[v8willy]

I'd be scared off by by the thought of the wrap getting in the pick up or round the rotor. Borrow a neighbour's one to try!

We wrap the wraps up in a kind of ball as they come off the bale, then just chuck them in by hand with a graip to fire the ones in that miss the pickup, next to nothing gets caught on the rotor or pickup, must hoke out a few pics.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

We had a client that would tubewrap 4000+ bales per year, and we'd go around in the spring and gobble up the big rows of wrap where the tubes were, after folding it over to match the width of the pickup.

We did score it with a slasher every few metres just to give it somewhere to tear in case of a problem, but experienced very few issues.
Was a good way to give the balers a run after winter storage, then we'd set into replacing roller bearings, chains, pickup bits etc etc.
Baled up a family of rabbits once, they'd obviously taken up residence under the tube, and missed all the gaps in my pickup tines

 

[martian]

Will the recycling people take these bales? Or are they building blocks, wind-breaks etc to decorate the yard with?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Think I might have a go at that

Have you had a go yet?