Revolutionary "Non-Stop" Baler

Revolutionary "Non-Stop" Baler BALERS Balers 22-4-6 A British inventor says his new non-stop round baler will make hay at speeds up to twice as fast as today's fastest round baler. Geoff Eyre recently unveiled his new de-sign to farm reporters in England. Eyre farms and also manufactures a popular round bale trailer which was once featured in FARM SHOW (Vol.11, No. 5). The new baler consists of a double wide bale chamber that runs at right angles to the direction of travel. It's fed by an offset pickup that runs off to the side of the tractor. A cross auger carries hay to the bale chamber, which makes a bale 8 ft. long by 4 ft. dia. Once the bale has been formed, a retractable knife cuts it in half producing a pair of 4-ft. bales. Once cut and wrapped, bales are ejected onto a cradle that holds four bales and can dump all four at once. As the bales are being cut and ejected, the baler keeps right on picking up hay, depositing it onto a platform right behind the cross auger. Once the bale chamber is ready again, rotating tines pull the hay into the cross auger. To ensure that hay is distributed evenly in the bale chamber, material delivered by the cross auger is distributed by a series of rotating paddles. Eyre says the baler's large pickup and bale chamber allows it to pick up the biggest wind-rows with ease. An 85 hp. tractor will pull the double baler. Design of the baler grew out of Eyre's frustration with having to wait for bales to be wrapped. He figures that during 23 years of baling, he's spent the equivalent of 15 weeks doing nothing but waiting for the baler to wrap and eject bales. Eyre plans to use his prototype to attract investors interested in bringing the new baler to market. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Geoff Eyre, Traileyre, Bradwell, Derby, United Kingdom (ph 44 1433 620353; fax 44 1433 620430).

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