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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: http://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.
Cho-ku-ri

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

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

I'd love one of these ,if anyone has a second hand one in there shed let me know Smile
Rob R

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

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

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

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

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 Embarassed
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