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Observations;
The only big square balers I see around here are NH, and have four strings. It's interesting that these have many more. And they're on the side? Unless every bale is flipped?
What is the thing on the front of the tractor which looks like it's all tires?
 
(quoted from post at 03:41:07 02/27/19) Observations;
The only big square balers I see around here are NH, and have four strings. It's interesting that these have many more. And they're on the side? Unless every bale is flipped?
What is the thing on the front of the tractor which looks like it's all tires?
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They are tyres to push the straw down to go under the tractor or it would block before it got to the baler
 
I think Heston baler has 6 strings and lay the bales on the strings. I assume they must be 3X4X8 bales?
 
The video clip shows one of the worst aspects of British farming. The two tractor / trailer rigs are illegal, as the trailers do not have a number plate (Licence tag). I do not understand how owners of the rigs, which are probably worth more than $100,000 each cannot spend $10 on a number plate. I always think if they cannot afford $10 for a number plate, what other corners are they cutting to save costs? Are the rigs properly maintained? Fortunately for them, the police are not very active in enforcing the law.
 
(quoted from post at 06:39:42 02/27/19) The video clip shows one of the worst aspects of British farming. The two tractor / trailer rigs are illegal, as the trailers do not have a number plate (Licence tag). I do not understand how owners of the rigs, which are probably worth more than $100,000 each cannot spend $10 on a number plate. I always think if they cannot afford $10 for a number plate, what other corners are they cutting to save costs? Are the rigs properly maintained? Fortunately for them, the police are not very active in enforcing the law.
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I wouldn't condemn the owner without seeing the rig on the road. I know that in the UK they are on public roads a lot but the background of this video shows a lot of open ground.
 
(quoted from post at 02:08:06 02/27/19) How they do it across the pond
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Curious what big bales like that are used for?

Also curious what straw can be sold for to justify that level of equipment expense?

Reminds me of the old joke about guys in SE MO buying melons for 50 cents each, hauling them to Chicago where they sold them 3 for $1. Lost a lot of money the first few loads...... and one says to the other......"what we need is a bigger truck".
 
In the USA a rig pulled by an ag tractor doesn?t need a plate. Most times anything pulled with a road semi needs plates, and they cost a whole lot more than $10!

Those loads would, I think, be too tall here. 13.5 feet is the limit.

A whole lot of hay and straw is hauled around here and I don?t even live in a big hay producing area. Those big square balers were designed for road hauling, they pack the hay tight and the right size for easier shipping on a semi. They cost a bundle, but they save a lot of handling and transport costs. You need to be big in hay mKing tho to spread those costs over enough acres.

There is one big square baler around here, he does custom baling for miles around.

Paul
 

A view of a different way in Australia. The bale handling here is about the coolest I have ever seen. Jump to about 6:02 to see the bale work if you do not want to watch the actual harvesting. Cool that the combine pulls the baler.

https://youtu.be/anqGtsl29R0
 
Round about where I lived, big bales of
straw were used in huge quantities, spread
out by machine, over rows of unharvested
carrots, to protect them from winter
frosts - allows marketing of fresh carrots
over a longer season.
 
Simon you seem very concerned about the $10 number plate as they may not even be going on the road. Here in the UK a lot of straw is stored outside and is used for putting on overwinterd vegetables to keep the frost off them. Most of the rural policemen understand how farming works and they donot bother them. MJ
 
So much of that wouldn?t work ?here?.

Such different climates, we would have so many weeds with that wide spacing between rows, straw would be way too wet coming out of the combine to direct bale, and
so on.

We are so wet, they are so dry.

Neat video.

I could go for a good drought, have a good dry year like that to get some work done for a change.

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 09:24:08 02/27/19) Round about where I lived, big bales of
straw were used in huge quantities, spread
out by machine, over rows of unharvested
carrots, to protect them from winter
frosts - allows marketing of fresh carrots
over a longer season.
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OK.....that makes sense. I do the same with my long neck garlic, but I only need a couple small square bales a year.....and I have to spread it by hand. :roll:

I can also see where some vegetables and fruit crops would be worth enough to justify the cost....at least at such a large scale. And condensed bricks might make it feasible to ship some distance.

I could also see that for high value hay crops like alfalfa if it is to be shipped some distance.....or to get it to a cube mill.
 
MJ in the UK Sounds like a typical citiot that can?t stand to see a farmer slow him down on the road
 
modirt Straw is used for cattle bedding it?s big
business here in the fall probably 30,000 tons get
put up and shipped to the dairies and feedyards and
that?s just in this small valley
 
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