Baling bales: Modified machine makes small-bale packages

摘要

High-quality hay in small bales brings big bucks at the barn, but getting it to customers used to be a problem for Jim Toews. "After it was in our shed, every small bale was handled three or four times before it got to the horse," recalls Toews, a farm machinery dealer northeast of Edmonton, Alberta. He cured those handling headaches by replacing the pickup mechanism on a Hesston 4755 big square baler with his own device that enables the machine to package 12 small square bales into a single big one.