Look closely for signs of wear, including belt laces, pins in the belt laces, stretched chains or bearings that may be ...

Photo A: The author’s grandson, Austin, experiments with using the baler to form a bale. When you build your own wooden hay baler, you can hand bale hay without the need for equipment, so you can ...

“It hadn’t been used for a couple of years, so the twine-tie square baler was sold on an internet auction.” Small square bales of hay are a lot of work, but nearly essential for most livestock ...

With a typical 2.4m x 1.2m x 0.9m (8 x 4 x 3 foot) large square bale weighing about 500-600kg, depending on the material, high density is pushing that weight up to 700-800kg. But is ramming an extra ...

Fixed-chamber balers remain popular in Europe because of the way the livestock are fed, often undercover, and the soft core of the hay bale is less of an issue when it comes time to feed out. Most hay ...