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I had thought about the old Allis Rotobalers - I had heard some were rigged to run off two-cylinder Wisconsin air-cooled engines, because, when they were introduced, there were still a lot of tractors in service with no PTO, just a flat-belt pulley. I have never seen a Rotobaler set up this way, only with PTO shaft drives. These made small round bales - you can find videos on You-Tube. Several old-timers have told me livestock greatly preferred the round bales to square bales - the hay didn't poke their mouths as much. There are also several small Italian brands of round balers, and a couple of "boutiquey" miniature square balers to make decorative hay bales. If you are just interested in using it as green manure, a hay chopper and forage wagon(s) would do the trick, I think.  
[[Image:Baler.png|thumb|400px|Baler]]


=Overview=
A Baler compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales.


So it's a hay picker-upper followed by a hammer mill? Add a sickle bar, and you have all in one step. The problem, though, is volume, no?  Perhaps this is where a simple hyhdraulic ram could spit out compressed, untied bales. A baler would compact the straw perhaps 5 times or so, with hydraulics, perhaps many more times, to make picking up mulch very effective, perhaps on one single platform consisting of sickle-compactor-trailer. That could be good. Just a pull-behind for [[LifeTrac]].
=Product Ecology=
'''Uses'''
*[[Furnace]] - Steel
*[[Torch Table]] - Parts
 
'''Works with'''
*[[Tractor]] - Mounting
*[[PowerCube]] - Power
*[[Pelletizer]] - Pellets
 
'''Creates'''
*Bales
 
=Components=
 
=Status=
About to enter the prototyping phase as a part of the [[GVCS Rollout Plan]], the Baler is soon to be reverse engineered and upgraded to meet [[OSE Spec]].
 
=See Also=
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baler Wikipedia: Baler]


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Revision as of 08:15, 5 September 2011