Wrapping the curved surface of round bales

[Highland Mule]

There were no bags available in NZ (or my boss was too tight) 20 years ago.

Was probably nearer thirty year ago for me !

 

[H200GT]

leave bales outside, or preferably in a barn for at least 2 weeks, then wrap with 2 or preferably 4 layers and stack outside, be as good as they they were wrapped

 

[Dry Rot]

No but what @Mr Mackay is talking about is exactly what you're asking. Some fusion balers do film on film. They do not use net wrap but film to hold the bale together. Post 2 suggests it may not hold as well as net, but I suspect this is down to minimal amount applied for bales that will be subsequently wrapped.
If you could get a contractor with a fusion with this facility and he apply extra layers, I suspect this will be your cheapest/ easiest option. He then drops the bale prior to wrapping in the 2nd chamber same as he would for hay or straw.

Ah yes, I see that. That's what the wrap retailer must have meant. I haven;t heard of that machine this far north.

A few tried the tube liner around here but it didn't seem to last.

 

[O'Reilly]

There's a firm in Yorkshire do a rotating bale spike. Some bale wrappers rotate the bale (in the vertical axis) instead of the wrap. If you replaced the turntable rollers with a flat platform, that may work? Would need two wrap dispensers to get full cover of the bale

 

[Dry Rot]

It is worth taking a look at Gordon Stephen's Facebook page to see this bale wrapper in action. Click on this link https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100017072433028 and scroll down the page to PHOTOS, then click on the photo with bales in it.

I've tried to download the video but it won't work for me! Just go to the above page.

 

[Mr Mackay]

It is worth taking a look at Gordon Stephen's Facebook page to see this bale wrapper in action. Click on this link https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100017072433028 and scroll down the page to PHOTOS, then click on the photo with bales in it.

Excellent , is that a home made thing?

 

[Dry Rot]

Excellent , is that a home made thing?

Gordon Stephen is an Aberdeenshire contractor and inventor. He seems to be a clever fellow and I think it is "home made" as he makes a variety of farming implements. I've messaged him on FB but don't know him. He sounds a nice chap and quite approachable.

 

[glasshouse]

Round Bale Weatherproofing Wrapper: Wrapide CW-01 from Front Machinery

Straw Round Bale Weatherproofing Wrapper: Wrapide CW-01 from Front Machinery

www.frontmachinery.co.uk

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How much is that?

 

[glasshouse]

Tubeliner is the answer

 

[Sheep]

Balers can now put plastic on instead of net - they are much more common than you think. Nearly every Fusion 3 in these parts I can think of has this capability.

First 40 seconds of this video shows a bale which has its curved wrapped in plastic instead of net (the full wrapping process which takes place doesn't need to be carried out in your case)

 

[KennyO]

How much is that?

No idea. I have no connection with them. It is just a machine I remembered. Iirc the guy that designed it (and probably made it) was a farmer from fife. He was about YFC when I was.

 

[Flatlander]

Back when I was a kid dad was short of straw one year and to preserve what he did have he had me cut twine that ud lay under each bale. After he’d put the bales in rows over the twine we’d put a piece of silage plastic wide enough to cover The top half. Then tie the twine to secure it. Used the plastic fir a couple of years. Cost pennies per bale.

 

[Dry Rot]

No idea. I have no connection with them. It is just a machine I remembered. Iirc the guy that designed it (and probably made it) was a farmer from fife. He was about YFC when I was.

Sounds like John Johnstone from Leven, Fife, who invented the Wrapede CW-1 mentioned above.

 

[glasshouse]

Sounds like John Johnstone from Leven, Fife, who invented the Wrapede CW-1 mentioned above.

Trust a fifer to be tight and not waste a penny

 

[Dry Rot]

Back when I was a kid dad was short of straw one year and to preserve what he did have he had me cut twine that ud lay under each bale. After he’d put the bales in rows over the twine we’d put a piece of silage plastic wide enough to cover The top half. Then tie the twine to secure it. Used the plastic fir a couple of years. Cost pennies per bale.

That's the same principle. That's what I do now but the bales will be in a line on pallets with a strip of silage wrap along the top tied down with thin rope. It is a pain in the neck tying on the wrap!

 

[Dry Rot]

Balers can now put plastic on instead of net - they are much more common than you think. Nearly every Fusion 3 in these parts I can think of has this capability.

First 40 seconds of this video shows a bale which has its curved wrapped in plastic instead of net (the full wrapping process which takes place doesn't need to be carried out in your case)

That won't be cheap! My contractor has a couple of those. I got them in when some clever fellow said I hadn't put enough fertiliser on so I increased the dosage and had swathes the size of a small bungalow! I think I need to have a chat with my contractor!

 

[Red Fred]

I think our old Welger RP12 from 1989 mentioned a plastic covering option in the destruction book instead of the string or net wrap. If the plastic was the right thickness, couldn't you just put it through the normal net system?

 

[Cornish bob]

Years ago we had a newholland 548 baler that would put on plastic about 60 bales per roll. You had to put the roll in to unroll the sticky side against the bale so it didn't wrap up on the Baler in dusty conditions it didn't stick so well, we only did it for a couple of seasons we found the Hay still sweated against the plastic and went damp, and in straw the crows wrecked the wrap

 

[Bury the Trash]

Trust a fifer to be tight and not waste a penny

i thought that was a general Scots thing ?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

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