Home-Built Bale Wrapper Mounts On Wagon Frame

Home-Built Bale Wrapper Mounts On Wagon Frame BALE HANDLING Bale Handling (31B) 32-1-19 "My neighbor Allan Strawser built his own pull-type round bale wrapper. "He started with the running gear off a light duty wagon and mounted a frame on it that's built from 2 by 6-in. steel that he bought at a sale. The rig's two wrapping rollers were made by a local machinist, and the arm that holds the wrapping material was bought from a bale wrap manufacturer. Everything else on the wrapper was handmade with the exception of some hydraulic motors, hoses and valves. "Instead of using a hydraulic motor to operate each wrapping roll separately, as most factory wrappers do, he used only one motor and drives the other roll with a sprocket and chain. The bale is kept centered by two guide wheels, which are the front wheels off a garden tractor. Once the bale has been wrapped the operator uses a hydraulic cylinder to discharge it. "The wrapping part of the machine is built on a hinge. After the bale rolls off you pull forward the width of the bale and raise the rollers, and you're ready to wrap another bale. It works like a charm. "After wrapping a few bales, Allan decided to add some round baler belts to the wrapping rollers to help grab the bales. "He uses a Deere 5205 MFWD 50 hp loader tractor to load bales onto the wrapper. He says he doesn't make enough hay to justify purchasing a 100 hp tractor, which would be required to operate a 3-pt. mounted wrapper on our hilly terrain. He uses an Allis Chalmers WD tractor to power the wrapper. "I don't know how much he spent to build the wrapper, but I know it was only a fraction of the cost of a commercial wrapper." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Lewis Durst, HC 82, P. O. Box 21, Aurora, West Virginia 26705 (ph 304 735-5775).

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