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Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 07 2:57 pm Post subject: Mini balers

Whilst watching TV last night I saw an interesting piece of machinery that might be useful. It was a small baler that attached to a pedestrian tractor (one you walk behind). A bit of googling shows this site: https://www.rekord.com/f%20&%20s%20machinery%20pages/Balers/front_mounted_mini_baler.htm

Whilst looking for that link I noticed quite a few mini-balers for smaller tractors as well.

As I'd not seen these things before I thought it was worth mentioning.

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 5272
Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 07 3:01 pm Post subject:
Have heard they are very unreliable and expensive to repair. A few years ago there was a trend for mini haylage bales. The trend has passed as the hassle was not worth it.

Blacksmith

Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 5025
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 07 7:58 am Post subject:
I think if you could find a reliable small compactor/baler you could make a fortune selling tiny bales to pet shops !

bodran

Joined: 07 May 2007
Posts: 18
Location: North Wales.

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 07 10:36 am Post subject:
I'd love one of these ,if anyone has a second hand one in there shed let me know

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 07 10:47 am Post subject:

The main problem with mini round balers is that you have to stop for a minute or so to form a bale. When you're baling 4'x4' bales it is quite efficient, but when your bale is just inches across it takes ages just to bale a field, given our weather & labour costs that is just stupid. I looked at mini-bale haylage before & I just couldn't see the point in a small round baler 9you can probably tell), the much more efficient system seems to be using a conventional sized square baler for continuous operation with a mini wrapper...

bodran

Joined: 07 May 2007
Posts: 18
Location: North Wales.

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 07 11:00 am Post subject:
I wasnt thinking of that type , i saw a photo of one, that did proper littlle bales,,i can imagine it does take ages.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45484
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 07 12:50 pm Post subject:
Richard says they tried one at Writtle a few years ago and it was no end of grief. Things are prolly better now though.

VSS

Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 2845
Location: Llyn Peninsula, North Wales

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 07 4:49 pm Post subject:

Blacksmith wrote:

I think if you could find a reliable small compactor/baler you could make a fortune selling tiny bales to pet shops !

You can do this anyway by buying standard small bales, repacking and then reselling. I know a chap who was buying hay at £2 / bale and selling it for about £50!

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 07 12:11 pm Post subject:

VSS wrote:

Blacksmith wrote:

I think if you could find a reliable small compactor/baler you could make a fortune selling tiny bales to pet shops !

You can do this anyway by buying standard small bales, repacking and then reselling. I know a chap who was buying hay at £2 / bale and selling it for about £50!

For a second there I couldn't believe that! Then I realised you were talking about small bales

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