Baler Converted Into "Board Breaker"

Baler Converted Into "Board Breaker" WOODLOT EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous 32-3-32 What used to be a 1940's Case small square baler has been converted into a low-cost "board breaker" that requires very little horsepower and fuel to operate. The baler is powered by a 2-cyl. air-cooled engine and is used to break boards up to 8 in. wide into small pieces that average about 14 in. long. "It uses impact rather than a lot of power to do the splitting," says inventor Casper Holter of Glasgow, Montana. Holter stripped the tieing assembly from the wire-tie baler, leaving only the plunger which still has the cutting knife on it. He piles the boards up on the pickup table, then feeds them one at a time into the plunger. "It works good and will break up the boards as fast as I can feed them in. I can chop a truck load of wood in only about two hours," says Holter. "I get a lot of boards from old wooden buildings that blew down long ago on our farm. I use the broken-up wood in our wood burning stove and in our fireplace. My neighbors often use the machine to get rid of branches up to two inches in diameter and leftover wood. Every time the plunger breaks through the wood it makes a loud popping noise, like someone is shooting a .22 rifle." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Casper Holter, 278 Cut Across Road, Glasgow, Montana 59230 (ph 406 367-5341).

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