You just got to give a lot of respect to the engineering draftsman who designed the part of a baler that ties the knots. that's just hypnotic to watch. when I was in Suffork we used to bale smaller bales and they used to shoot into a trailer that was towed behind. My job was to stack the bale better to get more on and to swap over the trailers so the full one could then be taken back to the store shed. Because you were working at the rear of the output chute you would get covered in that fine dust and would then itch like hell until you got home and had a shower and a clean change of clothes. The machine was a very old New Holland. It clanked like a dustbin being towed down the road. Thanks for reminding me of happier days. Sorry this was a long one. Thanks for posting....
We still have and use our old New Holland small square baler. Ours just drops them on the ground, and we come along later in the truck to pick them up. We have a special bale picker-upperer elevator contraption that bolts on to the side of the truck and delivers them up to the tray at a nice grabbable height. Unfortunately we still need to stack them by hand, as well as unload them by hand back at the shed. And re-stack them in the shed.
Top tip Tom - fit a rear facing camera on the back of the baler so you can see the bales coming out of the chamber. If you see one with no bands or the first bale out of an empty chamber when its really soft, get out and cut the bands before the bale leaves the ramp. That way you finish up with an easily rebalable trail of individual wafers instead of a big lump that sticks under the tractor of blocks the baler. Reduces the sweat and chew if nowt else
A very clever person who designed the knotting mechanism all those years ago, I like your wifes instructions max power Tom. Good insight to farming. Carry On Farming
Great video Tom , I feel all edified now , I never realised how much psi there was put into bailing square bails . Whoever invented that machine way back in the day was a brilliant engineer . Really enjoyed that Tom thank you
Excellent. That's a complicated machine, especially compared to the round bailer, but I remember these from my childhood. Loved the explanations and sloow-mowww. Cheers!!
Keep up the hard work tom love watching your videos, learnt so much about farm machinery that I would have never known about otherwise, brilliant work mate.
Glad your got the gases sorted sorry bale’s done, must be awful for bedding if like wire wool, great invention the knotter & excellent work on camera work, hopefully your missus tummy not too poorly ;) great blog Tom
Knotters are the most complicated simple thing known to man. Worked on them for years but still no idea how they work. Amazing design that has never changed and on the whole very reliable give the speed they operate. They look like Lego blocks those linseed bales. Be fantastic for bale walls
Hey Tom any chance of a few more videos like this looking at the way farm machines work? You see them everyday but us non farming farm fans never get up close and really love the engineering and technical side of things
Awesome video Tom. Please can we have more in-depth videos of your farm machinery, it's uses and how it works? My son would like to know which attachments are used for fine tilth generation. Happy harvest ;-)
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but why do you need to make square bales and round bales? Couldn’t you have just made more round bales using the original baler you had fitted? Is it crop specific? Whomever invented the knotting mechanism was probably the sort of person who could do Rubik’s Cube in six seconds!
Great video Tom on how the bailer works and I was just wondering is the linseed straw used for animals or something else and keep up with the great videos 👍👍
I asked Google what linseed straw is used for. Garden mulch to cover ground to stop weeds growing (similar to pea-straw), insulation cover for vegetable clamps, pulped to make paper, and burnt to heat greenhouses, barns etc. I imagine there are special furnaces designed to burn straw.
In the Netherland we grow flax to use it in clothing. First they pull the flax out of the ground and lay it in rows on the ground. Than if someone wants it for seed they pull the heads off and lay the straw back on the ground for rotting and fermenting. Then they make round bales from the straw and send them off to make linen.
Excellent video. Aren't there tractors powered on methane now, more curries, fuel for the engine and no issue with in cab leakage, just got to harvest it 😁
