Add-On Device Wraps Bales On-The-Go
If you like the idea of wrapping bales with plastic but you don't want to make a second trip through the field, you'll like this new add-on attachment. It lets you wrap round bales with plastic film right inside the baler, without using any twine or net wrap.
"Binder-Wrap" fits most conventional round balers. It was introduced at the recent Ohio Farm Science Review by farmer David Olsen of Warsaw, Ohio, who imports the device from Denmark.
It mounts on front of the baler and holds a single roll of plastic stretch film. Once the bale is made, the wrapper automatically drops down and feeds film into the bale chamber, riding on top of hay as it's picked up. The unit slides from side to side to make sure the film extends out to the edges of the bale, and to keep the film tight along the entire width of the bale.
After the bale has been wrapped, the unit moves back up which causes the stretch film to break.
A computer in the tractor cab is used to adjust the number of layers of plastic film. The bale normally gets two to three layers of plastic.
According to Olsen, the Binder-Wrap system works nearly as fast as wrapping a bale with net wrap but is much less expensive. "Net wrap sells for about $300 per roll whereas a roll of plastic sells for only about $72. You can wrap 45 4 by 5-ft. bales with one roll of plastic. At that price it costs $2 to $3 to wrap each bale with net wrap compared to only about $1.30 for plastic.
"Using the Binder Wrap system it takes only about 10 seconds to wrap a bale with two layers of plastic. It works better than using a tractor-mounted wrapping system because you don't have to spend a lot of time wrapping bales in a separate operation. I came up with the idea after I lost about $1,500 worth of round bales due to spoilage. I tried using a tractor-mounted system to wrap bales but it cost too much money and took too much time.
"Another advantage is that the bales are easier to feed than bales with net wrap or twine. All you have to do is make one cut across the face of the plastic and pull it off the bale."
"At least one manufacturer of round balers offers an attachment designed to wrap the bale with either net wrap or plastic. However, the Binder Wrap is the only system that bypasses the rollers and belts and gets the plastic on tight all the way to the edges of the bales."
Sells for about $6,000.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, David Olsen, Binder Wrap NA, Inc., 19448 Co. Rd. 80, Warsaw, Ohio 43844 (ph 740 327-7502; fax 740 327-6702; E-mail: olsendg1@cris.com; Website: www.binderwrap.com).
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Add-On Device Wraps Bales On-The-Go BALERS Balers 25-6-33 If you like the idea of wrapping bales with plastic but you don't want to make a second trip through the field, you'll like this new add-on attachment. It lets you wrap round bales with plastic film right inside the baler, without using any twine or net wrap.
"Binder-Wrap" fits most conventional round balers. It was introduced at the recent Ohio Farm Science Review by farmer David Olsen of Warsaw, Ohio, who imports the device from Denmark.
It mounts on front of the baler and holds a single roll of plastic stretch film. Once the bale is made, the wrapper automatically drops down and feeds film into the bale chamber, riding on top of hay as it's picked up. The unit slides from side to side to make sure the film extends out to the edges of the bale, and to keep the film tight along the entire width of the bale.
After the bale has been wrapped, the unit moves back up which causes the stretch film to break.
A computer in the tractor cab is used to adjust the number of layers of plastic film. The bale normally gets two to three layers of plastic.
According to Olsen, the Binder-Wrap system works nearly as fast as wrapping a bale with net wrap but is much less expensive. "Net wrap sells for about $300 per roll whereas a roll of plastic sells for only about $72. You can wrap 45 4 by 5-ft. bales with one roll of plastic. At that price it costs $2 to $3 to wrap each bale with net wrap compared to only about $1.30 for plastic.
"Using the Binder Wrap system it takes only about 10 seconds to wrap a bale with two layers of plastic. It works better than using a tractor-mounted wrapping system because you don't have to spend a lot of time wrapping bales in a separate operation. I came up with the idea after I lost about $1,500 worth of round bales due to spoilage. I tried using a tractor-mounted system to wrap bales but it cost too much money and took too much time.
"Another advantage is that the bales are easier to feed than bales with net wrap or twine. All you have to do is make one cut across the face of the plastic and pull it off the bale."
"At least one manufacturer of round balers offers an attachment designed to wrap the bale with either net wrap or plastic. However, the Binder Wrap is the only system that bypasses the rollers and belts and gets the plastic on tight all the way to the edges of the bales."
Sells for about $6,000.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, David Olsen, Binder Wrap NA, Inc., 19448 Co. Rd. 80, Warsaw, Ohio 43844 (ph 740 327-7502; fax 740 327-6702; E-mail: olsendg1@cris.com; Website: www.binderwrap.com).
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